Ghosts of Spain Travels Through Spain and Its Silent Past [Paperback]

An invaluable book . . . A country finally facing its past could scarcely hope for a better, or more enamored, chronicler of its present. -Sarah Wildman,New York Times Book Review

The appearance, more than sixty years after the Spanish Civil War ended, of mass graves containing victims of Francisco Franco's death squads finally broke what Spaniards call the pact of forgetting -the unwritten understanding that their recent, painful past was best left unexplored. At this charged moment, Giles Tremlett embarked on a journey around the country and through its history to discover why some of Europe's most voluble people have kept silent so long.

In elegant and passionate prose, Tremlett unveils the tinderbox of disagreements that mark the country today.Ghosts of Spainis a revelatory book about one of Europe's most exciting countries.

[Tremlett] paints a rich, multicolored canvas of one of Europe's most fascinating nations. Entertainment Weekly

This well traveled journalist&knows his subject as he ventures through the past to explain the present personality of a country so varied that even in modern times its complicated medieval legacy is part of everyday life. Washington Times (Ann Geracimos)

Tremlett has written a smart and highly readable book that mixes incisive political history with sophisticated cultural reporting. Seattle Times (Robin Updike)

[An] incisive and engaging book&.[Tremlett's] sober analysis of how the Madrid train bombings of March 11, 2004...exposed deep fissures in Spanish society is the best report I've read on the subject&.[A]n invaluable book. Indeed, since it appeared in Britain last year, 'Ghosts of Spain' has become something of a bible for those of usextranjeroswho have chosen to live in Spain. A country finally facing its past could scarcely hope for a better, or more enamored, chronicler of its present. New York Times Book Review (Sarah l£