When Franco's Fascists seized power, Cortes an active reformer and Republican mayor of a poor village in Andalucia became a marked man. For 30 years, until 1969's amnesty, he hid within his home from neighbours, friends and those who sought him. Not just the history of his ordeal but that of Spain, of abuses of power and the people's poverty prior to mass tourism. Oral history at it's best told to the author by a man of the people, his wife and daughter.
(Lynda Johnson - bwl 89 Summer 2018 ) |
