MADRID More Books All Souls  •  Margaret Jull Costa  •  Javier Marias LITERATURE •  2000 •  PAPER  • 210 PAGES A visiting Spanish lecturer not unlike Marias illuminates the eccentricities of Oxford life in this contemplative black comedy. Call him the Spanish Oscar Wilde or a more mysterious Henry James, Marias's prose is as good as it gets, and it dazzles in Costa's superb translation. (GRB52, $14.95)   art/shop/eat Madrid  •  Robert Smyth GUIDEBOOK •  2005 •  PAPER  • 199 PAGES Blue Guide's compact, illustrated guidebook with excellent local maps. The book includes not only museums, shops and restaurants, but also not-to-be-missed sites and attractions by neighborhood. (SPN307, $13.95)   The Buried Mirror  •  Carlos Fuentes CULTURAL PORTRAIT •  1999 •  PAPER  • 399 PAGES A fascinating, illustrated survey of Latin American culture and history by the great Mexican author Carlos Fuentes. With hundreds of color illustrations. Fuentes hosted a television series by the same name. (SPN71, $29.95)   The Club Dumas  •  Arturo Perez-Reverte  •  Sonia Soto MYSTERY •  2006 •  PAPER  • 384 PAGES In this second Perez-Reverte thriller, book detective Lucas Corso helps uncover the secret behind a hanged book-lover and a fragment from the original "The Three Musketeers." Black magic, adventure, and murderers follow him as he travels between Madrid, Toledo and Paris to solve the puzzling mystery. (FRN577, $14.95)   Companion Guide Madrid and Central Spain  •  Alastair Boyd GUIDEBOOK •  2002 •  PAPER  • 480 PAGES A literate, comprehensive guide to Madrid and the surrounding areas of Segovia, Salamanca, Toledo and Avila. Organized geographically, it takes the form of a walking and driving guide with the narrative occasionally interrupted by maps and black-and-white photographs. Rather old fashioned and with a distnctive voice, this guide is well worth the effort. Boyd makes an excellent traveling companion. (SPN24, $34.95)   Convivencia: Jews, Muslims, and Christians in Medieval Spain  •  Vivian B. Mann  •  Jerilynn Dodds  •  Thomas F. Glick HISTORY •  1992 •  PAPER  • 263 PAGES Essays by leading scholars on the cultural and social dynamics of the Golden Age of Muslim, Jewish and Christian coexistence in Spain, from the 700s to 1492. Originally published to accompany an exhibition at the Jewish Museum in New York. (SPN73, $39.95)   Dark Back of Time  •  Margaret Jull Costa  •  Javier Marias LITERATURE •  2004 •  PAPER  • 336 PAGES Marias's enthralling follow up to his black comedy All Souls is even more digressive -- and entertaining -- than the original. The narrator finds that the characters from All Souls are not so happy with how they were "created" and portrayed. This astonishing, demanding novel takes place in London, Oxford, and, occassionally, the real author's home of Madrid. As Publishers Weekly has said, "Marias has the ability, which he shares with Italo Calvino, to turn a metaphysical insight into a novelistic adventure." (GRB51, $16.95)   Don Quixote  •  Miguel de Cervantes  •  John Rutherford LITERATURE •  2003 •  PAPER  • 1072 PAGES This quintessential Spanish novel is the most famous work in Spanish literature. A parody of romance and chivalry, it is also one of the most entertaining adventure stories ever. Written in the 17th century, but rendered in this Penguin Classics edition into a lively, modern English, it is the picaresque tale of a romantic, mad gentleman who imagines himself a knight errant. The book revolutionized the art of fiction, influenced literary and philosophical trends, and has inspired other masterpieces including operas and ballets. (SPN23, $14.00)   The End of Days, A Story of Tolerance, Tyranny, and the Expulsion of the Jews from Spain  •  Erna Paris HISTORY •  1995 •  HARD COVER  • 327 PAGES Paris, a highly regarded Canadian writer and journalist, tells the story of the dramatic changes in Spanish society as a pluralist and tolerant society gave way to the dark days of the Spanish Inquisition. In the latter part of the book, she draws parallels of that time with current events in Europe and North America. (SPN56, $39.98)   Eyewitness Guide Spain  •  Eyewitness Guides GUIDEBOOK •  2011 •  PAPER  • 720 PAGES This superb, colorful guide covers all of Spain. It features bright photography, dozens of excellent maps and a region-by-region synopsis of the country's attractions. Handsome, convenient and accessible, this is the guide to carry. (SPN05, $30.00)   Farewell Espana, The World of the Sephardim Remembered  •  Howard Morley Sachar HISTORY •  1994 •  PAPER  • 439 PAGES A history of Spanish Jews by a well known scholar. Sachar covers not only the rise, persecution, and expulsion of the Spanish Jews, but also their dispersion to new communities across Europe and in the Americas. (SPN57, $20.40)   Fellowship of Fear  •  Aaron J. Elkins MYSTERY •  2005 •  PAPER  • 288 PAGES As Gideon Oliver, professor of forensic anthropology, pieces together the history of bone fragments, he also pieces together a murder mystery. The aging, yet horny, Oliver, with the aid of his FBI friend, John Lau, takes another case. Assigned to teach at European military bases, Oliver encounters NATO and the KGB, while defending himself from physical attacks. The very first Gideon Oliver novel by Edgar-winner Aaron Elkins. (EUR233, $7.99)   For Whom the Bell Tolls  •  Ernest Hemingway LITERATURE •  1995 •  PAPER  • 471 PAGES This great novel of the Spanish Civil War centers around four days in the life of a young American in the International Brigades attached to an anti-fascist guerrilla unit in the mountains. One of the best war novels of all time, this is the story of love and loyalty, courage, and the tragic death of an ideal. (SPN19, $16.00)   Frank O. Gehry Guggenheim Bilbao Museoa  •  Ralph Richter  •  Kurt Forster ART & ARCHITECTURE •  1998 •  HARD COVER  • 56 PAGES A photographic tribute to Gehry's architectural masterpiece, the Guggenheim Bilbao, with an introductory essay by Kurt Forster, a selection of floor plans and full-page color photographs of the museum. The photographs show the museum in context along the river, exteriors and interiors. (SPN103, $39.00)   The Gothic Enterprise, A Guide to Understanding the Medieval Cathedral  •  Robert A. Scott ART & ARCHITECTURE •  2005 •  PAPER  • 294 PAGES Scott, whose interest in the history of cathedrals began when he first saw the magnificent Cathedral Church of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Salisbury, England, takes his reader on a historical, architectural and sociological tour of the magnificent spires and stained-glass windows that dot the landscape of Europe. It's an accessible, personable overview. (EUR190, $21.95)   A Hedonist's Guide to Madrid  •  Beverley Fearis GUIDEBOOK •  2009 •  HARD COVER  • 192 PAGES A guide to the vibrant city, with comprehensive listings of accommodations, restaurants and bars. (SPN339, $18.95)   Here Is Where We Meet  •  John Berger LITERATURE •  2006 •  PAPER  • 256 PAGES This novel weaves a portrait of several European countries through encounters with the dead, from the narrator's mother, whom he discovers on a park bench in Lisbon, to a childhood friend wandering a market in Krakow. "The dead don't stay where they are buried," the protagonist's mother tells him, and this becomes the mantra for this most unusual journey through Europe's history and people. (EUR189, $15.00)   A History of Medieval Spain  •  Joseph F. O'Callaghan HISTORY •  1995 •  PAPER  • 728 PAGES This massive, wide-ranging book spans the Visiogothic era, the reign of Ferdinand and Isabella, the discovery of America, and the ascendancy of Islam. (SPN10, $29.95)   Iberia, Spanish Travels & Reflections  •  James Michener TRAVEL NARRATIVE •  1989 •  PAPER  • 960 PAGES In this best-selling work, Michener departs from his usual fictional format and presents a compulsively readable, long and well-observed account of his affair with Spain and all things Spanish. It has achieved the status of a classic, rich in detail and insightful. (SPN16, $8.99)   Insight City Guide Madrid  •  Brian Bell GUIDEBOOK •  2004 •  PAPER  • 256 PAGES This eyecatching guide features hundreds of color photographs, illuminating area maps, a separate pullout map, street atlas and practical information. (SPN373, $15.95)   Insight Pocket Guide Madrid  •  Insight Guides GUIDEBOOK •  1998 •  PAPER  • 96 PAGES This convenient, slim volume features color photographs, many maps (including a handy fold-out map of the city), good short descriptions of major points of interest, and other practical information. (SPN37, $12.95)   The Jews of Spain  •  Jane S. Gerber HISTORY •  1994 •  PAPER  • 338 PAGES A straightforward, readable history of Jewish life in Spain. The book covers life in Spain up to the expulsion of the Jews in 1492, and continues with chapters on the Sephardic diaspora. (SPN72, $21.50)   The Life of Saint Teresa of Avila by Herself  •  J.M. Cohen BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR •  1988 •  PAPER  • 316 PAGES Utterly transformed by her religious experiences, converted at age forty, Saint Teresa maintained an analytical and critical view of ecstasy and feared false mysticism. This book is widely read in Spain. (SPN18, $14.00)   Lonely Planet Madrid  •  Anthony Ham GUIDEBOOK •  2008 •  PAPER  • 300 PAGES This comprehensive, practical guide to the city and its history includes dozens of excellent maps, color photographs and short glossary. (SPN413, $18.99)   Mammals of Europe  •  Priscilla Barrett  •  David W. MacDonald FIELD GUIDE •  2002 •  PAPER  • 320 PAGES Published by Princeton, this is a field guide to land and marine mammals throughout Europe, both endemic and introduced. With more than 600 color illustrations of over 200 mammals, it's a comprehensive handbook, with detailed descriptions, range maps and commentary on behavior. (FG61, $38.50)   Marks of Identity  •  Juan Goytisolo  •  Gregory Rabassa LITERATURE •  2003 •  PAPER  • 352 PAGES This is the story of a Spanish exile's return from Paris to his native Barcelona. The novel's narrator, like Barcelona during the Franco years (and the author) is fractured, conflicted and (he feels) implicated in tragedy. It's the first part in a trilogy by Goytisolo, a Catalan who wrote complex, difficult novels of Spain on the periphery of the Western and Islamic worlds. Originally published in 1969. (SPN25, $15.00)   The Medieval Spains  •  Bernard F. Reilly HISTORY •  1993 •  PAPER  • 228 PAGES A short, scholarly history of Iberia from the late Roman period to the 15th century covering the politics, society and intellectual climate of Medieval Spain. With four maps and a helpful bibliography. (SPN98, $34.99)   Modern Spain  •  Raymond Carr HISTORY •  1989 •  PAPER  • 201 PAGES A survey of Spanish history from 1875 to King Juan Carlos in 1980. With a focus on politics and economics. (SPN152, $24.95)   National Geographic Madrid  •  Annie Bennett GUIDEBOOK •  2009 •  PAPER  • 272 PAGES A compact guide featuring National Geographic's usual attention to maps and color photography. (SPN372, $22.95)   Old Man Goya  •  Julia Blackburn BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR •  2003 •  PAPER  • 256 PAGES Taking 1792--the year that Goya went deaf--as her starting point, Julia Blackburn chronicles the painter's fruitful last 35 years in captivating, imaginative detail. Her book is informed by her travels and research, her own family history and her keen intellect. Blackburn has explored similar topics, people and places in this same mesmerizing fashion in her previous books, most memorably in The Book of Color (Seychelles and the Indian Ocean), The Emperor's Last Island (St. Helena) and Daisy Bates in the Desert (Australian outback). (SPN171, $13.95)   Picasso  •  Patrick O'Brian ART & ARCHITECTURE •  1994 •  PAPER  • 520 PAGES Here Patrick O'Brian, author of the popular historical novels about the 18th-century British Navy, covers the life and work of Picasso. O'Brian, who lived in Spain for many years, was an acquaintance of the great artist. (SPN86, $27.95)   Picasso  •  Hans L. Jaffe ART & ARCHITECTURE •  1983 •  PAPER  • 128 PAGES An overview of Picasso's art in the excellent "Masters of Art" series. The book begins with an illustrated essay on the art of Picasso, and continues with reproductions of important works. Each is given a full page, with commentary on the facing page. (SPN85, $19.98)   Picasso  •  Timothy Hilton ART & ARCHITECTURE •  1987 •  PAPER  • 288 PAGES An illustrated essay on Picasso's achievement and place in 20th-century art, organized by period. With 207 illustrations, 30 in color. Part of the World of Art series. (SPN82, $16.95)   Picasso  •  Christian-Peter Warncke ART & ARCHITECTURE •  1998 •  HARD COVER  • 240 PAGES This beautifully illustrated color Tashen monograph features concise descriptions and interpretations of Picasso's important styles and developments. With 400 illustrations. (SPN90, $20.00)   The Plaza Mayor and the Shaping of Baroque Madrid  •  Jesús Escobar ART & ARCHITECTURE •  2003 •  HARD COVER  • 376 PAGES An engaging, scholarly account of the physical transformation of early modern Madrid from market town to capital of the Spanish Habsburg empire. Escobar focuses on the architecture, planning and symbolism of Madrid's grand central square. With maps and illustrations. The plaza, as Escobar explains in wonderful detail, was the center of commerce and ceremony for 17th-century Madrid, showplace of the Habsburgs. Escobar is a professor of art history at Fairfield University. (SPN210, $123.00)   The Quest for El Cid  •  Richard Fletcher HISTORY •  1991 •  PAPER  • 217 PAGES A reevaluation of the legendary eleventh-century warrior Rodrigo Diaz, otherwise known as El Cid. Scholar Richard Fletcher delves deep into the life of this much-mythologized figure and extracts a new interpretation of his persona, explaining in the process how his legend evolved. (SPN141, $19.99)   Spain & Portugal Adventure Map  •  National Geographic 2011 •  MAP A double-sided full color map of Spain and Portugal at a scale of 1:1,000,000 with good shaded relief, topographic detail, roads and waterways. Also includes Ibiza, Mallorca, Menorca, and the Canary Islands. Printed on waterproof, tear-resistant paper. Two Sides. 50x35 inches. (SPN22, $12.95)   Spain 1469-1714, A Society of Conflict  •  Henry Kamen HISTORY •  1991 •  PAPER  • 307 PAGES A comprehensive survey of the Golden Age of imperial Spain, geared for students. This vivid history shows how Spain debated the unification of the country, the conquest of America, the wars in the Netherlands, the role of the Inquisition, the expulsion of the Moors, and the last days of the Habsburg regime. With the usual scholarly paraphernalia, a few maps and no illustrations. (SPN69, $91.60)   Spain and Its World, 1500-1700  •  John H. Elliott HISTORY •  1990 •  PAPER  • 316 PAGES A wide-ranging overview of Spain by the pre-eminent historian of the Imperial Age of Spain. The 12 scholarly essays in this collection are arranged thematically. They're beautifully written. (SPN48, $35.00)   Spain's Men of the Sea: Daily Life on the Indies Fleets in the Sixteenth Century  •  Pablo E. Perez-Mallaina HISTORY •  1998 •  PAPER  • 320 PAGES The ships and men of Spain's Atlantic fleets, crucial to the country's empire in the New World during the 16th century, are discussed in lively detail in this prodigiously researched book. The author brings this unique nautical society to life with humor and drama. (SPN93, $40.00)   Spain, A Culinary Road Trip  •  Mario Batali FOOD •  2008 •  HARD COVER  • 383 PAGES This companion to the PBS series chronicles the Spanish culinary travels of celebrity chef Mario Batali and friends Gwyneth Paltrow, Claudia Bassols, and Mark Bittman. Nicely illustrated with anecdotes and over seventy recipes. (SPN417, $34.95)   The Spanish Inquisition  •  Cecil Roth HISTORY •  1996 •  PAPER  • 369 PAGES The Inquisition -- introduced in Spain during the Middle Ages, ended only in the 18th century. Empowered by the Roman Catholic church, the Spanish sovereigns moved first against Jews, then Protestants, mystics and various nonconformists. This documents the events leading up to the Inquisition and the torment that spread from Spain to Portugal and the New World -- a fascinating exploration of the roots of the Inquisition and its effects on the country. (SPN91, $15.95)   The Spanish Seaborne Empire  •  J.H. Parry HISTORY •  1990 •  PAPER  • 416 PAGES The first of the great seaborne empires of Western Europe, Spain was the richest and most formidable European power from 1492 until the break-up of its empire 300 years later during the struggles between rival generals and the "liberators" of the 19th century. This classic study of Spain's impact on the Americas traces the conquests of Cortes and Pizarro, the economic and social consequences in Spain of trying to control an empire, its administration, the social structure, the Church, and the destruction of Indian cultures and their transformation to colonial states. (SPN70, $31.95)   Spanish, A Language Map  •  Kristine K. Kershul LANGUAGE & PHRASEBOOKS •  1999 •  PLASTIC CARD This durable, foldout card, featuring 1,000 words and phrases, works as a quick reference for travelers. (SPN259, $7.95)   The Story of the Moors in Spain  •  Stanley Lane-Poole HISTORY •  2010 •  PAPER  • 285 PAGES First published in 1886, this book has held its place as the classic work on the Moors in Spain: a scholarly, wonderfully readable and sweeping tale of splendor and tragedy. (SPN12, $18.95)   Surrealism  •  Fiona Bradley ART & ARCHITECTURE •  1997 •  PAPER  • 80 PAGES A volume in the excellent Movements in Modern Art series. Bradley, based at the Tate Gallery in London, describes -- in easily accessible prose -- the history and thrust of the Surrealist movement, covering Magritte, Ernst, Dali, and others. Many color illustrations. (SPN83, $25.00)   To the Heart of Spain: Food and Wine Adventures beyond the Pyrenees  •  Ann Walker  •  Larry Walker FOOD •  1997 •  PAPER  • 319 PAGES This travel guide and cookbook recounts adventures -- culinary and otherwise -- throughout Spain. With 100 recipes and a section on wines. (SPN95, $14.95)   A Traveller's Wine Guide to Spain  •  Desmond Begg GUIDEBOOK •  2012 •  PAPER  • 228 PAGES A slim, very informative, lavishly illustrated guide to the wines of Spain. It's is a vineyard-by-vineyard guide to each region with good maps and travel information. (SPN101, $22.00)   Wallpaper City Guide Madrid  •  Wallpaper Magazine GUIDEBOOK •  2012 •  PAPER  • 120 PAGES A stylish, thin (it fits in your back pocket) city guide compiled by the design magazine Wallpaper's local reporters. Well-organized, with chapter tabs, many photographs and of-the-moment recommendations. (SPN300, $9.95)   Where Madrid Cityguide  •  Where Magazine GUIDEBOOK •  2008 •  HARD COVER  • 64 PAGES A sturdy pocket guide to city neighborhoods, hotels, shops, restaurants, entertainment venues, cultural events and other top sights, helpfully keyed to overview maps and featuring a detailed downtown PopOut map. (SPN341, $9.95)   Wild Spain, A Traveller's Guide  •  Frederic Grunfeld GUIDEBOOK •  2000 •  PAPER  • 224 PAGES A brief, illustrated survey of the national parks and wilderness areas of Spain, organized geographically. With a map, description and photographs covering 50 wilderness areas from the Pyrenees to the Mediterranean coast, Andalucia and the canary Islands. (SPN96, $19.95)   Wine Country Europe, Touring, Tasting, And Buying At European Regional Wineries  •  Ornella D'Alessio  •  Marco Santini FOOD •  2005 •  HARD COVER  • 324 PAGES Part how-to, part guidebook, part picture book, this charming coffee table treat covers sprawling French vineyards as well as lesser-known hidden treasures in Austria and Hungary. The authors, both Italian journalists and wine connoisseurs, provide helpful tips alongside the hundreds of magnificent color photographs. (EUR191, $35.00)   Winter in Madrid  •  C. J. Sansom LITERATURE •  2009 •  PAPER  • 537 PAGES In the aftermath of the Spanish Civil War, reluctant British Secret Service spy Harry Brett investigates a shadowy Madrid businessman whose girlfriend would prevent a former lover from joining the communist cause. (SPN352, $15.00)   All About My Mother  •  Pedro Almodovar 1999 •  DVD Pedro Almodovar presents another vivid slice of life in Spain in this marvelous film about women, friendship and loss, this one set mostly in Barcelona. After the death of her son, Manuela (Cecilia Roth) moves from Madrid to her old house in Barcelona, where she lives with a transsexual prostitute, works as an assistant for an actress playing Blanche DuBois in a production of "A Streetcar Named Desire," and befriends a yong nun (Penelope Cruz) who is pregnant. Almodovar dedicated his film to the actresses of the world, a fitting homage for a movie which so touchingly captures the world of women. In Spanish with subtitles. (SPN231, $29.95)
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