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    Ghosts of Spain: Travels Through a Country's Hidden Past (Paperback) By (author) Giles Tremlett

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    Short Description for Ghosts of SpainThe appearance - sixty years after that war ended - of mass graves containing victims of Franco's death squads finally broke what Spaniards call 'the pact of forgetting'. This book takes us on a journey around Spain - and through Spanish history.
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  • The appearance - sixty years after that war ended - of mass graves containing victims of Franco's death squads has finally broken what Spaniards call 'the pact of forgetting'. At this charged moment, Giles Tremlett embarked on a journey around Spain - and through Spanish history. Tremlett's journey was also an attempt to make sense of his personal experience of the Spanish. Why do they dislike authority figures, but are cowed by a doctor's white coat? How had women embraced feminism without men noticing? What binds gypsies, jails and flamenco? Why do the Spanish go to plastic surgeons, donate their organs, visit brothels or take cocaine more than other Europeans?