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- ISBN 9781472127389
- Weight: 206g
- Dimensions: 162 x 198mm
- Publication Date: 06 Jul 2017
- Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
- Language: English
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When New Yorker Alex Nadal inherits his aunt's farm near Barcelona he is more than intrigued. First, because his aunt appears to have died twice - once at the end of the Spanish Civil War and again sixty years later - and secondly because he is curious about his Catalan roots, about which his father has always maintained a stony silence.
But his arrival on Spanish soil is not a prodigal's return; indeed he is made to feel very unwelcome. He asks too many questions which are met with either hostility or silence, until Alex begins to understand that in this sun-baked and ancient land the past is not history but merely unfinished business. And in the end it's a simple ultimatum: finish it or it will finish him.
Stephen Burgen lived in Canada until he was eleven, when his family returned to Britain. He first visited Barcelona in the 1970s and settled there in 2001 as the Spanish correspondent for The Times. In recent years he has worked as a freelance journalist, contributing regularly to the Guardian.
