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The Return

Victoria Hislop

Hardcover | Pages: 432 pages

Rating: 3.83 | 9505 Users | 734 Reviews

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Original Title:	The Return
ISBN:	0755332938 (ISBN13: 9780755332939)
Edition Language:	English

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Beneath the majestic towers of the Alhambra, Granada's cobbled streets resonate with music and secrets. Sonia Cameron knows nothing of the city's shocking past; she is here to dance. But in a quiet café, a chance conversation and an intriguing collection of old photographs draw her into the extraordinary tale of Spain's devastating civil war.

Seventy years earlier, the café is home to the close-knit Ramírez family. In 1936, an army coup led by Franco shatters the country's fragile peace, and in the heart of Granada the family witnesses the worst atrocities of conflict. Divided by politics and tragedy, everyone must take a side, fighting a personal battle as Spain rips itself apart.

Captivating and deeply moving, Victoria Hislop's second novel is as inspiring as her international bestselling debut, The Island.

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Title	:	The Return
Author	:	Victoria Hislop
Book Format	:	Hardcover
Book Edition	:	1st Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 432 pages
Published	:	June 26th 2008 by Headline Review (first published 2008)
Categories	:	Historical. Historical Fiction. Fiction. Cultural. Spain. Romance

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Ratings: 3.83 From 9505 Users | 734 Reviews

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This was a painful read; got a lot more than I'd asked for. The book's strength is completely in the flashback telling of Franco's rise in pre-WWII Spain. I was completely ignorant of his torturous reign and it got-to-me in it's intensely graphic and devastating familial context. Never-the-less, I highly recommend it. The dovetailing story of flamenco over two generations, and the modern British romances (wait, is this last an oxymoron?) work well, but Hislop has a clunky hand in the love arena

There are lots of things to like about this book, and yet I can only give it three stars because it just didn't quite grip me. "The Return" is not one of those books that you "just can't put down" --- I actually had to make myself pick it up and keep reading most of the time.And yet --- this is not a bad book. The style of writing is good, and the characters are interesting. A few years ago I spent 2 weeks in Granada, so I could really see the streets and Plazas of the city - as well as the

There's a certain trepidation that accompanies the cynical man as he reads an account of love. He wants to enjoy it but every fiber of his being screams of such a tale being impossible and far fetched. No matter how real the premise or how stark the depiction, reading love stories is never easy for him. He feels disconnected and even bored, the quality of the story notwithstanding. Every love story, thus, is viewed by him as cliche ridden and familiar, like reading a newspaper article whose

The first part of this novel certainly does not prepare you for the later intensity as suddenly the story takes on a complete change of tone and direction when we are transported back to the Granada of the nineteen thirties. It is a gentle start as this first part is set mainly in modern day Granada with Sonia and Maggie. Two fans of salsa from the UK where they take regular classes, the young women spend a few days in Granada taking dance lessons as a birthday treat for one of them. While there

There are many things to like about The Return, but also some things that were too predictable and required a willing suspension of belief. The good parts: the descriptions of flamenco were wonderful. I know so little about this dance and I learned a lot. I could tell that she definitely did her research about the Spanish Civil War, which is also an era of history I know too little about. All of my knowledge about this era comes from "The Shadow of the Wind" and the movie "Pan's Labyrinth."

So this is really two books; a modern framework as a vehicle for telling a story about the Spanish civil war. The historical fiction part is really quite good; I would rate the middle section of the book a 4 star. The characters are real and the history is nice. I knew next to nothing about the Spanish civil war and besides getting a good history lesson, I liked the story. The modern framework, however is a 2 star. The characters are shells and the story is silly. Who cares about Sonia and

It's almost as if countries can have karma, like people do. While the rest of us Europeans were still in the Dark Ages, Spain was a multi-ethnic island of tolerance and excellence, safeguarding the legacy of the Greeks through Arab translations. Then along come Ferdinand and Isabella, chuck out the Jews and the Muslims in the same year as Columbus discovered America, and the upshot is a quagmire of bigotry and intolerance that is still going on in the 20th century in the form of the Spanish