Past: A Memoir

by M.G. Sanchez

In July 2013, just as a full-blown diplomatic row was erupting between Britain and Spain over the Rock of Gibraltar, Joseph Sanchez collapsed and died while cycling in Taraguilla, a Spanish village twenty miles north of the border. In this honest and sensitively written memoir Gibraltarian author M. G. Sanchez relates the hardships his family endured while trying to repatriate his father's remains during one of the most acrimonious phases in recent Gibraltarian history. Part-family memoir, part-act of remembrance, PAST: A MEMOIR mixes personal reminiscences with political and historical commentary in a shifting, multi-layered narrative which explores - and vigorously upholds - what it means to be Gibraltarian.

218 pages, Paperback

Published October 16, 2016

About the author

M. G. Sanchez is a Gibraltarian writer based in the UK. He studied at the University of Leeds, where he obtained BA, MA and PhD degrees in English Literature. He is the author of fourteen Gibraltar-themed books, among them novels, journals, memoirs, historical studies and collections of short stories. His writing focuses on Gibraltarian identity politics and on the geopolitical challenges facing the Rock and its inhabitants. He is also interested in borders, national stereotypes and colonial/post-colonial discourses of ‘otherness’. He has spoken about matters of Gibraltarian identity at the University of Barcelona, the University of Salamanca, the University of Turin, the University of Strasbourg, the University of Basel, the University of Lisbon, King’s College, London and other European universities. More information about his writing can be found at https://www.mgsanchez.net/.