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A passionate ode to the magic of Spain, composed by one of its most ardent admirers Fifteen years after the events described in his acclaimed autobiographies, As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning and A Moment of War, Laurie Lee returned to Spain, the land of his youth and experience. He found a country bowed but not broken, where the heavy gloom of the recent past was shot through with the vibrant rays of tradition: the exquisite ecstasy of the flamenco, the pomp and circumstance of the bullfight, the eternal glory of Christ and church. From the smuggler's paradise of Algeciras to the Moorish majesty of Granada, Lee paints the wonders of Spain with a poet's brush. To read A Rose for Winter is to be transported to one of the most enchanted places on earth.
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"Out of a winter in Southern Spain, Mr. Lee has spun a magnificent book, outstanding even in a field where the competition is oppressively brilliant."
New Statesman
"One of the great writers of the last century whose work conjured up a world of earthly warmth and beauty."
The Independent
"The magic of Spain is here."
New Statesman