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Paperback. Presents a collection of short stories about modern Spain, beginning with a tale of true love versus romance in the years just before the Spanish Civil War of 1936. This work takes the reader into the Civil War and Spain's wretched times and continues through the 20th-century, with stories of ordinary Spaniards living the fiestas of their lives. Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 215 x 140 x 15. Weight in Grams: 308.
If one aspect of their consciousness characterizes the Spanish, it is the prevailing philosophy that life is worth what it does to you. ""Fiestas"" is a collection of short stories about modern Spain, beginning with a tale of true love versus romance in the years just before the Spanish Civil War of 1936. The collection takes the reader into the Civil War and Spain's darkest and most wretched times and continues through the twentieth century, with stories of ordinary Spaniards living the fiestas of their lives - the loves, deaths, miseries, and minor triumphs of a people determined to make ... Read more
If one aspect of their consciousness characterizes the Spanish, it is the prevailing philosophy that life is worth what it does to you. ""Fiestas"" is a collection of short stories about modern Spain, beginning with a tale of true love versus romance in the years just before the Spanish Civil War of 1936. The collection takes the reader into the Civil War and Spain's darkest and most wretched times and continues through the twentieth century, with stories of ordinary Spaniards living the fiestas of their lives - the loves, deaths, miseries, and minor triumphs of a people determined to make ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Texas Review Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
176
Place of Publication
Huntsville, United States
ISBN
9781881515951
SKU
V9781881515951
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-1
About Jacqueline Bautista
JACQUELINE BAUTISTA was born in California and travels between her home there and Madrid, Spain. Fiestas, her first published book, is drawn primarily from the recollections and experiences of family and friends and was the winner of the 2005 George Garrett Prize in Fiction. She has published and won awards for short fiction, poetry, and essays, and worked as a ... Read more
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