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Twist
A moving portrayal of violence's emotional legacy in the Basque Country. Twist is tale of guilt, love, friendship, and betrayal, and of the difficulties that arise when one flees one's own skin to inhabit the minds of others. Set in the politically charged climate of the Basque Country in the 1980s, Twist relates the disappearance and brutal murder of two ETA militants at the hands of the Spanish army. The novel centers on their friend and fellow activist Diego Lazkano, who, since revealing his comrades to the authorities, has been tormented by guilt. In Twist, Harkaitz Cano provides a multi-vocal account of a conscience and a society in turmoil.
Twist
Twist tiene como punto de partida la desaparición y el asesinato de dos militantes de un grupo armado. Un tercer militante y amigo de ambos, Diego Lazkano, se siente responsable de su muerte porque fue él quien delató a sus compañeros. Durante más de veinte años se alimenta de las sombras de sus amigos, como si fuera su responsabilidad vivir sus vidas por ellos; como si fuera posible vivir tres vidas en una sola. Más allá de la realidad concreta del conflicto vasco que aparece en la novela, Harkaitz Cano plantea los desafíos que surgen cuando uno huye de su propia piel y se mete en la piel del otro. Una historia trepidante que habla de la culpa, del amor, de la traición, pero que es, sobre todo, un bello canto a la amistad.
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Black is beltza
Black is beltza or black is black, revolves around Manex Unanue, a young man of French Basque origin who tries to make sense of the turbulent times of the mid-sixties.
Aitona Eta Euria
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Blade of Light
Novel originally written in Basque that postulates Hitler's victory in World War II and invasion of New York City
Crime Scene Spain
This essay collection examines the changing cultural, political and physical landscape of Spain as represented in Spanish crime fiction of the last three decades. The first several essays focus on crime fiction set in Barcelona and look at, among other topics, the symbiotic relationship between the city and the detective in Francisco Gonzalez Ledesma's long-running Inspector Mendez series, Manuel Vazquez Montalban's treatments of the 1992 Summer Olympic Games, and place and identity in Alicia Gimenez-Bartlett's Petra Delicado series. Other essays examine regional and cultural illiteracy in Jorge Martinez Reverte's Galvez series and Spain's changing urban centers as represented in Andreu Martin's El blues de la semana mas negra.
Destination Dictatorship
When the right-wing military dictatorship of Francisco Franco decided in 1959 to devalue the Spanish currency and liberalize the economy, the country's already steadily growing tourist industry suddenly ballooned to astounding proportions. Throughout the 1960s, glossy images of high-rise hotels, crowded beaches, and blondes in bikinis flooded public space in Spain as the Franco regime showcased its success. In Destination Dictatorship, Justin Crumbaugh argues that the spectacle of the tourist boom took on a sociopolitical life of its own, allowing the Franco regime to change in radical and profound ways, to symbolize those changes in a self-serving way, and to mobilize new reactionary social logics that might square with the structural and cultural transformations that came with economic liberalization. Crumbaugh's illuminating analysis of the representation of tourism in Spanish commercial cinema, newsreels, political essays, and other cultural products overturns dominant assumptions about both the local impact of tourism development and the Franco regime's final years.
New Spain, New Literatures
Hispanic Studies; Literature; Latin American Studies.
Here And Beyond
The chapters included in this volume examine a number of modern and contemporary travel and mobility narratives produced in the different languages of Iberia, whether they offer accounts of Iberia itself or portray other geographical or human contexts. Illustrating the diversity of forms characteristic of travel writing, the texts discussed in the book feature representations of travel and mobility as presented in novels, films and other literary and cultural manifestations such as comics, plays and journalistic chronicles. Additionally, the volume incorporates a section of creative responses to the tropes of travel and mobility by contemporary Iberian authors in English translation. Thus, t...
