Table of Contents
Prologue: Lorca's Moon xi
Part 1 Paradise Lost, 1909-1939
Chapter 1 A Premature Skeleton 3
Chapter 2 The Señorito from Astorga 15
Chapter 3 To Win and to Convince 33
Chapter 4 Like an Almond Tree 39
Chapter 5 Verses of a Combatant 53
Chapter 6 The Girl Who Cried 63
Chapter 7 Long Live Spain 71
Chapter 8 A Few Days 83
Chapter 9 ¡No Pasarán! 89
Chapter 10 We Won't Be the Same 99
Part 2 La Familia, 1940-1962
Chapter 11 Light Enters the Heart 105
Chapter 12 It We Know How to Deserve Our Happiness 115
Chapter 13 Triumph of Love 121
Chapter 14 The Survivor 127
Chapter 15 Word of My Silent Depth 133
Chapter 16 House and Tradition 137
Chapter 17 Battersea Park 143
Chapter 18 The Writer and the Woman, the Poet and the Man 155
Chapter 19 Extrapoetic Choices 161
Chapter 20 Friends and Enemies 173
Chapter 21 Good Bread and Bad Wine 181
Chapter 22 The Killer of Nightingales 187
Part 3 The Transition, 1962-1978
Chapter 23 There I Want to Sleep 201
Chapter 24 Everything or Nothing 205
Chapter 25 Discoveries 215
Chapter 26 The Enchanting Disaster 223
Chapter 27 Rivalry and Referendum 231
Chapter 28 The Great Complication 245
Chapter 29 La Locura 251
Chapter 30 The Mute Witness 263
Chapter 31 Four Characters in Search of an Auteur 277
Chapter 32 Game of Masks 285
Chapter 33 Taxi 317
Chapter 34 Auction of Memories 323
Part 4 Fin De Raza, 1981-2014
Chapter 35 La Movida 343
Chapter 36 Burdens and Legacies 359
Chapter 37 The End of a Party 369
Chapter 38 The End of the Line 381
Epilogue 393
Acknowledgments 403
Note 407
Selected Bibliography 425
Permissions 447
Photo Credits 449
Index 451