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Any novels set in Spain?

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MerryMarigold · 23/06/2014 21:05

Good ones not tat. But accessible ie. not too massive or using old fashioned English.

For a Spanish friend learning English.

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Umlauf · 23/06/2014 21:11

I love a good Spanish setting! Ones Ive enjoyed are:

The Carlos Ruiz Zafon ones, especially "the shadow of the wind"

Guernica by Dave Bolling which is set in the Basque Country

Winter in Madrid by C.J Samson, about the civil war.

For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway, also about the civil war, set in Andalucia.

Ghosts of Spain, written by a journalist, which is an Englishmans view on recent Spanish history and how it has shaped the country's "personality." An interesting read for a Spaniard as it is a completely different way of seeing their country.