Vedette : or Conversations with the Flamenco Shadows
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It deserves comparison to the great classics "One Hundred Years of Solitude" and "Don Quixote." Tamara Kaye Sellman, Editor
Book Description
Born to a Gothic social order, branded a haunter of men's dreams, Vedette is traumatized when her small town in the magical wetlands of southern Spain's Guadalquivir River is overrun by hashish-smoking anarchists promising free love and a life without sadness to those who would follow them.
Entranced by their flamenco music, their philosophy of revenge, and the concrete ability to deliver political results, the young woman joins a movement destined to annihilation and becomes its sole survivor, burdened with the task of keeping its memory and project for a better world alive through conversations with their flamenco shadows.
Transcending political viewpoints, Mr. Siciliano opens a new chapter in the understanding of the Spanish Civil War, opting for a literary interpretation that looks beyond right and wrong to more universal lessons only the passage of decades and the healing effects of time can reveal.
Vedette: or Conversations with the Flamenco Shadows,Stephen Siciliano,iUniverse, Inc.,0595315119,Fiction,Fiction - General,General,Historical - General,Literary,Fiction / Literary
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