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South from Granada: Seven Years in an Andalusian Village is an autobiographical book by Gerald Brenan, first published in 1957. Brenan, a fringe member of the Bloomsbury Group, moved to Spain in 1919 and lived there on and off for the rest of his life.
- Gerald Brenan
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Mar 28, 1974 · This book is set in Yegen, a village in the Alpujarras, the same mountain area south of Granada made famous at the end of the 20th century by Chris Stewart. Yegen as Brenan knows it though is set in pre-Civil War Spain in the 1920s.
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South from Granada (Spanish: Al sur de Granada) is a 2003 Spanish comedy film directed by Fernando Colomo which stars Matthew Goode as Gerald Brenan (author of South from Granada), a demobilized British soldier who in 1919 rents a house for a year in a village in Alpujarra, alongside Verónica Sánchez and Guillermo Toledo.
A classic travel book by an English writer who lived in a remote Andalusian village for seven years before the Civil War. He describes the landscapes, festivals, folk-lore, customs and characters of southern Spain with insight and sympathy.
South from Granada. Print length. 320 pages. Language. English. Publisher. Viking Pr. Publication date. January 1, 1963. Dimensions. 5.16 x 0.59 x 7.76 inches. ISBN-10. 0140167005. ISBN-13. 978-0140167009. See all details. The Amazon Book Review. Book recommendations, author interviews, editors' picks, and more. Read it now.
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- Gerald Brenan
May 29, 2008 · South From Granada. Between 1920 and 1934, Gerald Brenan lived in the remote Spanish village of Yegen and South of Granada depicts his time there, vividly evoking the essence of his rural...
Mar 28, 1974 · 4.3 455 ratings. See all formats and editions. An amusing and insightful account of Spanish village life from "a brilliant interpreter of Spain to the rest of the world" ("The Times"). Report an issue with this product or seller. Print length. 282 pages. Language. English. Publisher. Hamish Hamilton. Publication date. March 28, 1974. ISBN-10.
- Gerald Brenan
