Spanish Practices - Softcover

Townsend, Richard

 
9781908291905: Spanish Practices
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1908291907 ISBN 13: 9781908291905
Verlag: Chiselbury, 2022

Inhaltsangabe

“This is a wonderful story, beautifully told.” Jim Lawley, correspondent on Spain for The Spectator

“A very funny and well written account of one man’s experience of marrying into a Spanish family.” William Chislett, author of: Spain: What Everyone Needs to Know

‘Spanish Practices’ weaves together nearly half a century of observations by Rico, an Englishman married into an eccentric family in a left-behind corner of Spain.
Among others, we meet Macu, the maiden aunt who runs the family wine business with an iron fist and controls the family purse-strings; mother-in-law Mamí, whose sons can do no wrong, except when they do; brother-in-law Chus, who has a loose interpretation of the marriage vows and a dangerous weakness for the bottle; and younger brother-in-law Sancho, who becomes pivotal to the family’s succession battles and their struggles with the local rival winery.
Initially an outsider, Rico is drawn ever deeper into the family mire as well as facing, with his wife Marina, his own fraught relationships with neighbours, local planning laws and the busy body ‘Authorities’.
Through the interplay of rivalries, conflicts and vicissitudes ‘Spanish Practices’ illuminates the idiosyncrasies of Spanish ways and exemplifies the travails of a society in the throes of wholesale transformation.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Richard is a linguist and historian by training who ended up as a self-employed adviser to private companies on their financial and other affairs. This is his first novel.

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Verlag
Chiselbury
Erscheinungsdatum
2022
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1908291907
ISBN 13 
9781908291905
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
336
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