Marc Casals gathers life stories from a country that cannot be exhausted by memories of conflict.
The appeal is in allowing people to occupy a present as well as a historical role. A collection of local lives can complicate the fixed images through which outsiders recognise a place. Choose this for reporting interested in continuity, language and the everyday detail that survives beside major historical narratives.
WHO IS IT FOR?
For readers interested in reported lives, ideas and the forces shaping contemporary experience.
