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320 pages ; 22 cm
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"At the close of World War II, London is in ruins and Rose Daniel isn't at peace. Eight years ago, her brother disappeared while fighting alongside Gypsy partisans in Spain. From his letters, Rose has just two clues to his whereabouts--his descriptions of the spectacular south slopes of the Sierra Nevada and his love for a woman who was carrying his child. In Spain, it has been eight years since Lola Aragon's family was massacred. Eight years since...
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379 pages ; 24 cm
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Español
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Una cronica astuta, desenganada y salvaje, narrada con inmediatez y frescura, de una lucha por todo lo que vale la pena: el amor, la libertad, el respeto propio, la amistad y la esperanza. Rita regresa a su pueblo en Alicante despues de muchos anos de ausencia. Se dirige a casa de Lena, una de las amigas de entonces, pero la posibilidad de un encuentro feliz se ve truncada por una imagen horrible e inesperada: Rita encuentra a Lena muerta en el bano...
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227 pages ; 21 cm
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"In 1950 Katherine Proctor leaves Ireland for Barcelona, determined to escape her family and become a painter. There she meets Miguel, an anarchist veteran of the Spanish Civil War, and begins to build a life with him. But Katherine cannot escape her past, as Michael Graves, a fellow Irish émigré in Spain, forces her to reexamine all her relationships: to her lover, her art, and the homeland she only thought she knew"--Page 4 of cover.
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"Barcelona 1952. General Franco's fascist government is at the height of its oppressive powers, casting a black shadow across the city. When wealthy socialite Mariona Sobrerroca is found dead in her mansion in the exclusive Tibidabo district, the police scramble to seize control of the investigation. Eager young journalist Ana Martí Noguer is surprised to be assigned to this important story, where she must shadow Inspector Isidro Castro. But Ana...
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Memory is not the same thing as history. Inside Spain as well as outside, many believe-- wrongly-- that under Franco's dictatorship, nothing truthful or imaginatively worthwhile could be said or written or shown. Treglown argues that in recent years the country has begun to make a more public attempt to "reclaim" its modern history, and reveals that despite state censorship, events of the time were vividly recorded. The result is a much-needed reexamination...
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xx, 700 pages 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
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English
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Long neglected by European historians, the unspeakable atrocities of Franco's Spain are finally brought to tragic light in this definitive work by Paul Preston, the world's foremost historian of 20th-century Spain.
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2 videodiscs (119 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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Español
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Set in 1944 Spain, against the backdrop of the anti-Franco guerrilla warfare. A young girl goes to live with her mother and her new stepfather on a rural military outpost. Following her discovery of a labyrinth and the local group of resistance fighters, she is involved in a series of strange encounters.
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444 pages ; 23 cm
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Español
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Una inolvidable novela que nos relata los años convulsos y apasionantes del exilio español en México, escrita por la guionista de Amar en tiempos revueltos. Un libro que nos habla del amor, de las nuevas oportunidades y del poder arrollador de la esperanza Junio 1939. Una multitud se reúne en el puerto de Veracruz para recibir a los españoles que descienden del barco Sinaia, primer buque fletado por Negrín para salvar a los republicanos de la...
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