Author: GRAVES, LUCIA
Title: A woman unknown : voices from a Spanish life / Lucia Graves
Description: London : Virago 1999. First Edition. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dust-wrapper. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight. bright. clean and especially sharp-cornered.Physical description; 273 p. ; 23 cm. Summary; Lucia Graves. daughter of the poet Robert Graves and his wife Beryl. grew up in the beautiful village of Deia on the island of Majorca. Neither Spanish nor Catholic by birth. she nevertheless absorbed the different traditions of Spain and felt the full impact of Franco's dictatorship through the experience of her education. Lucia found herself continually bridging the gaps between Catalan. Spanish and English. as she picked up the patterns and nuances that contain the essence of each culture. Portraying her life as a child watching the hills lit up by bonfires on Good Friday. or. years later. walking through the haunting backstreets of the Jewish quarter of Girona. this is a personal memoir which provides a first-hand account of Catalonia. where Lucia lived and raised a family. It is also a perceptive appraisal of a country burdened by tradition yet coming to terms with political change as the decades moved on. Subjects; Graves. Lucia. Graves. Robert (1895-1985). Graves. Lucia (1943-). Spain — Biography. Spain — Social life and customs. Biography & autobiography: general. Balearic islands. Spain ; Social life and customs ; Biography. Graves. Lucia. Genre; Autobiography. ISBN: 1860494870. Weight in Kg appr.:

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