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Basque Ghosts: A Review of Gabriel Urza’s First Novel — ”All That Followed”

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by Gregg Chadwick Author Gabriel Urza’s family has roots in Spain’s Basque region. His new novel “All That Followed” http://amzn.to/2eyXpMY shows us the faces of civil wars — the Spanish Civil War of the 1930's, the Basque separatist movement, and the small wars that families and couples often find themselves fighting. Urza recounts a fictional tale based on real events that explores the kidnapping and killing of a young politician by even younger separatists in the late 1990s. Urza limns a town where everyone knows where bullet holes were left by Franco’s murderous thugs decades before. Ghosts of the murdered seem to arrive in the slanted rain —  txirimiri in Basque. In a Rashomon like retelling of the politician’s murder, three disparate voices speak in alternating chapters: Joni, an aging American expat teacher. Mariana, the victim’s young wife. And Iker, a student activist turned abductor. Joni and Mariana’s pain and loss are balanced with Iker’s hunger for ...

Must See Video of Springsteen and the E Street Band Live in Madrid

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Bruce Springsteen dedica 'The River' a #vaportiNacho Emocionó a las 60.000 personas que abarrotaron el Santiago Bernabéu Song by Song Reviews of Wrecking Ball on Speed of Life: 1.  We Take Care of Our Own 2.  Easy Money 3.  Shackled and Drawn 4.  Jack of All Trades 5.  Death to My Hometown 6.  This Depression 7.  Wrecking Ball 8.  You've Got It 9.  Rocky Ground 10.  Land of Hope and Dreams 11.  We Are Alive