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VIDAS: DEEP IN MEXICO & SPAIN
By: Edward Stanton
Waterside Productions
March 2021
On Sale: March 1, 2021
252 pages
ISBN: 1949003485
EAN: 9781949003482
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A wayward descendant of Mexico’s national hero, a femme fatale who recites poems in cantinas, a Tunisian prostitute in Barcelona, a Spanish psychiatrist who fights brave bulls, the wise owner of the world’s oldest restaurant. They are just a handful of the characters portrayed in VIDAS: Deep in Mexico and Spain, the first memoir to capture Mexico and Spain from the perspective of an American and the knowledge of an insider. Growing up in our city with the most musical name, El Pueblo de Nuestra Señora La Reina de Los Ángeles, Edward Stanton learns Spanish, meets people in the barrio, begins traveling to Mexico, lives there and eventually crosses the Atlantic to Spain. He learns the language well enough to pass for a native and comes to know Hispanic culture as well as his own, caught happily in the middle between two ways of living and seeing the world. VIDAS: Deep in Mexico and Spain explores subjects as diverse as the art of blasphemy, the cult of the Virgin Mary, superstition and witchcraft, the bordellos of Mexico, Spain’s paradise of drink and food, the bullfight and the running of bulls in Pamplona, the pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela. Every chapter of this vibrant travel memoir depicts a different person or place, which combined create a cross-section of the most populous Spanish-speaking countries in the New and Old World. VIDAS: Deep in Mexico and Spain is a passage from childhood to adolescence and maturity, a tribute to nature and the open road, an exaltation of love, food and wine, a journey from the tender, mortal flesh to the luminous world of the spirit.
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