Duende: A Journey into the Heart of Flamenco - Hardcover

Webster, Jason

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0767911660 ISBN 13: 9780767911665

Publisher: Broadway Books, 2003

Synopsis

Provides a captivating odyssey into the passionate underworld of Spain's flamenco performers, chronicling his journey into a mysterious and dangerous world of flamenco music and dance, as well as its drugs, violence, and criminality.

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Review:

"The autobiography-as-travelogue that is also a rite of passage is a form which worked brilliantly for Laurie Lee and Bruce Chatwin - both novelists as well as seekers after the truth-behind-the-truth. Ladies and gentlemen, we have a new star of the genre: Jason Webster" (Daily Mail)

"His descriptions of troubled modern day Spain are mesmerising, but the greater curiosity is in seeing just how much trouble the confused innocent can create for himself before finding out whom he might really be" (Daily Express)

"Wonderfully told, with enough detail about flamenco to educate the curious, and enough drama and characters to fill a novel, Webster may not have turned out to be a guitar maestro, but his journey is recounted like a master" (Wanderlust)

"Duende is an intensely personal portrait of a country in the throes of modernisation, whose spirit still defies definition" (Observer)

"One of the best books ever written about Spain" (Literary Review)

Book Description:

Part travelogue, part picaresque adventures of a young man, DUENDE takes the reader to the emotional heart of Spain.

About this edition

• Publisher: Broadway Books
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0767911660
• ISBN 13: 9780767911665
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 328