Title: Husband Gerald Brenan would have done better
Product review: For anyone interested in the experience of an expatriate in a Spanish village for a short time after the start of the civil war this book is OK, as long as we note there were many thousands of villages or pueblos across Spain, the war straddled the whole country, and the writer left for safety only a few months after the war started. notably before Franco's Nationalists took nearly Malaga and commenced an enormous slaughter of their republican enemies, the Loyalists, in early 1937; an event about which there is not a word. There is equally strong praise for the things the auther was pleased by and condemnation of the others. The excessiveness of both put me off. The writing is most moving in parts, but the work is unstrucutured. The author was really a poet, and it tells. The works of her esteemed husband,commencing with The Spanish Labyrinth, are a far better investment of time and money.
Would you say this review depicts the product in a flattering or unflattering light?
