A Rose For Winter

by Lee, Laurie | Biography: general
Published 02/01/2003 by Vintage Publishing (Vintage Classics) in the United Kingdom
Paperback | 128 pages
196 x 131 x 9mm | 100g

Andalusia is a passion - and fifteen years after his last visit Laurie Lee returned. He found a country broken by the Civil War, but the totems of indestructible Spain survive: the Christ in agony, the thrilling flamenco cry-the pride in poverty, the gypsy intensity in vivid whitewashed slums, the cult of the bullfight, the exultation in death, the humour of hopelessness-the paradoxes deep in the fiery bones of Spain. Rich with kaleidoscopic images, A Rose for Winter is as sensual and evocative as the sun-scorched landscape of Andalusia itself.