Spain: A Traveler's Literary Companion

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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 nostalgically with Julio Llamazares over black-and-white photos of his childhood Spain. Contributors include Nuria Amat, Bernardo Atxaga, Julin Ayesta, Carlos Blanco, Antn Castro, Agustn Cerezales, Rosa Chacel, Dulce Chacn, Rafael Chirbes, Miguel Delibes, Luca Etxebarria, Jos Ferrer Bermejo, Laura Freixas, Amaia Gabantxo, Federico Garca Lorca, Juan Goytisolo, Julio Llamazares, Jos Jimnez Lozano, Javier Maras, Juan Mars, Quim Monz, Javier Puebla, Fernando Quiones, Carme Riera, Manuel Rivas, Germn Sierra, Nivaria Tejera, and Angela Vallvey.

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"This compilation...'strives to go beyond the commonplaces' and overwhelmingly succeeds in this...vivid and descriptive images and more subtle suggestions of the landscape and culture...The collection is a good one, well selected and translated, and conveys a real senseof Spain as a country but also as a people..." -- British Bulletin of Publications on Latin America, April 2003.