The Assassination of Federico García Lorca
Who killed Spain's greatest modern poet, and why? A detective story from the first weeks of the civil war.
Ian Gibson’s investigation into the killing of the poet Federico García Lorca near Granada in August 1936, weeks after the military uprising. Gibson reconstructs Lorca’s last days, the political tensions in Granada that spring and the people involved in his arrest and murder. First published in Spanish in 1971, the book reads like a detective story and remains the classic account.
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Paul Preston
He really does write like an angel. The book is effectively a detective story and, although over the years odd bits and pieces have come out, it remains to this day the definitive study.
Interview · January 2012
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