Spain A Traveler's Literary Companion

by Bush, Peter; Dillman, Lisa

• ISBN13: 9781883513122
• ISBN10: 188351312X
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-03-01
• Publisher: Whereabouts Press

Summary

Explore Spain's rich literary landscape with some of the country's best contemporary writers. Arranged geographically, these thirty stories -- many of which appear in English for the first time -- transport the reader through Spain's many enchanting regions: experience a bull-run with Juan Goytisolo in Albacete, join Bernardo Atxaga in a Basque village, travel to the misty woods of Galicia with Manuel Rivas, and reminisce with Julio Llamazares over black-and-white photos of his childhood Spain.

Table of Contents

Map	p. v
Preface	p. ix
Minorca
Daydream Island	p. 1
Barcelona
The Wedding	p. 7
Gang Warfare	p. 20
Is Angela There?	p. 26
The Five Doorstops	p. 35
Basque Country
School Memory	p. 43
Your Gernika	p. 47
The Armoire	p. 54
Flesh Sunday	p. 60
Asturias
At the Beach	p. 65
Galicia
Sibila	p. 70
The Confession	p. 79
Amnesia	p. 87
Leon
Journey to the Moon	p. 101
Aragon
The Invisible Man	p. 106
Castile
The Dog	p. 116
What Happened in Atajo	p. 122
Madrid
Mama	p. 130
Siesta Light	p. 132
Gran Via	p. 140
Beatriz Comes Home	p. 146
Let the Passengers Off	p. 155
Sex, Food, and the Family	p. 161
No Reply	p. 168
John Turner	p. 185
Extremadura
Black Oaks	p. 195
Albacete
Sentimental Journey	p. 200
Andalusia
Right All Along	p. 206
Holy Week in Granada	p. 214
Canary Islands
Children Can Wait	p. 219
Contributors	p. 236
Permissions	p. 240
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