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1. Andalucia (Cordoba, Granada, Seville) The Summer Snow
2. Aragon (Zaragoza, Huesca) By Fire, By Water
3. Asturias (Oviedo, Gijón, Avilés) : Grammar Lessons: Translating a Life in Spain
4. Balearic Islands (Mallorca, Ibiza, Minorca, Formentera): An Instinctive Solution
5. Basque Country (Álava, Biscay, Gipuzkoa) Obabakoak: A Novel
6. Canary Islands (Tenerife) Canary Island Song
7. Cantabria (Santander) Watcher in the Pine
8. Castile-La Mancha (Toledo, Albacete) The Anarchist Detective
9. Castile and León - Salamanca: Law of Return
10. Catalonia (Barcelona) Remedy for Treason
11. Extremadura (Merida) No Greater Love: A Story of the Spanish Civil War
12. Galicia (Vigo, A Coruña) Travels with My Donkey: One Man and His Ass on a Pilgrimage to Santiago
13. La Rioja (Logroño) Valhalla Revealed
14. Madrid - Death of a Nationalist
15. Murcia (Cartagena, Murcia) The Return
16. Navarre (Pamplona) The Sun Also Rises
17. Valencia (Alicante, Castellón, Valencia) A Death in Valencia
Ceuta and spanish protectorate - The Time in Between
Melilla - The Queen of the South
Madrid - Death of a Nationalist by Rebecca PawelCastile and León - Salamanca: Law of Return by Rebecca Pawel
Navarre - Pamplona: The Sun Also Rises by Ernest HemingwayGalacia - Santiago de Compostela: Travels with My Donkey: One Man and His Ass on a Pilgrimage to Santiago by Tim Moore
Valencia: A Death in Valencia by Jason Webster
Dlmrose wrote: "[book:Travels with My Donkey: One Man and His Ass on a Pilgrimage to Santiago..."That title cracks me up.
Diane wrote: "Dlmrose wrote: "[book:Travels with My Donkey: One Man and His Ass on a Pilgrimage to Santiago..."That title cracks me up."
Me, too, I couldn't pass it up
Cantabria - Potes - Watcher in the Pine by Rebecca PawelAragon - Zaragoza - By Fire, By Water by Mitchell James Kaplan
Canary Islands - Las Palmas - Canary Island Song by Robin Jones Gunn
Murcia - The Return by Victoria HislopCatalonia - Girona - Remedy for Treason by Caroline Roe
Basque - Obabakoak: A Novel by Bernardo Atxaga
I will also try this challenge.1. Andalucia (Cordoba, Granada, Seville): Nyctophobia by Christopher Fowler (read 25/08/14)
2. Aragon (Zaragoza, Huesca): The Devil and Miss Prym by Paulo Coelho (read 16/03/14)
3. Asturias (Oviedo, Gijón, Avilés)
4. Balearic Islands (Mallorca, Ibiza, Minorca, Formentera): The Book of Evidence by John Banville
5. Basque Country (Álava, Biscay, Gipuzkoa): The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah
6. Canary Islands (Tenerife): Measuring the World by Daniel Kehlmann (read 08/15/16)
7. Cantabria (Santander)
8. Castile-La Mancha (Toledo, Albacete): Journey to the Alcarria: Travels through the Spanish Countryside
9. Castile and León (Valladolid, Avila, Salamanca, Burgos): La vida del Lazarillo de Tormes (read 18/07/01)
10. Catalonia (Barcelona): Der Fürst des Parnass by Carlos Ruiz Zafón (read 27/07/14) AND Southern Seas by Manuel Vazquez Montalban (read 03/09/14)
11. Extremadura (Merida): The Trials of Persiles and Sigismunda: A Northern Story by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
12. Galicia (Vigo, A Coruña): Memoirs of a Peasant Boy
13. La Rioja (Logroño)
14. Madrid (Madrid): Story of the Eye by George Bataille (read 08/08/14)
15. Murcia (Cartagena, Murcia): Wandern. Radeln. Paddeln.: 12000 Kilometer Abenteuer in Europa by Christine Thürmer
16. Navarre (Pamplona): Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe (read 06/06/15)
17. Valencia (Alicante, Castellón, Valencia): On Love by Alain de Botton
Completed: 14/17
Asturias - Oviedo - Grammar Lessons: Translating a Life in Spain by Michele MoranoBalearic Islands - Majorca - An Instinctive Solution by Roderic Jeffries
Ceuta- The Time in Between by María Dueñas
Extremedura- Badajoz - No Greater Love: A Story of the Spanish Civil War by R.D. Lock
Castile-La Mancha - Albacete - The Anarchist Detective by Jason Webster
Summary postAndalucia - The Summer Snow by Rebecca Pawel
Melilla - The Queen of the South by Arturo Pérez-Reverte
La Rioja - Valhalla Revealed by Robert A. Wright
Hi everyone! Just saw this post. I've had my head down writing for several months, but my latest book ins partly set in Spain: Madrid, Seville, Cadiz - the beautiful Andalusia region. Its called Beauty Mark, a contemporary romantic suspense novel, and the second in the Hostile Beauty series. Each books takes you somewhere new...Beauty Mark
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3. Asturias (Oviedo, Gijón, Avilés): La Regenta
4. Balearic Islands (Mallorca, Ibiza, Minorca, Formentera): The Pleasing Hour
6. Canary Islands (Tenerife): Contemporary Poetry from the Canary Islands
7. Cantabria (Santander): Watcher in the Pine
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11. Extremadura (Merida): Widow's Watch
13. La Rioja (Logroño)
15. Murcia (Cartagena, Murcia)
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17. Valencia (Alicante, Castellón, Valencia): Death in the Afternoon
Having just joined this group and loving reading in Spanish I thought I'd take up the challenge. I've started with Camilo José Cela's La familia de Pascual Duarte which is available in an English language edition The Family of Pascual Duarte for the Extremadura region. Here are a few of the books I'm thinking of reading: -1.
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Adding Lorenzo Silva's El lejano país de los estanques set in Mallorca, I don't think it's been translated into English although there are French and Italian translations. This is the first book in a series about 2 Guardia Civil. I'm now just starting Gerald Brenan's South From Granada as my read for Andalucía.
I've now been to Asturias with La casa junto al río and now embarking on a journey to Calahorra in La Rioja El baile de los penitentes.
I'm compilling of books to read which are set in Spain at the moment. This is a great list, thanks very much. I'm a massive fan of Christ Stewart and his trilogy set in Andalusia. Can't say I have read many in each of the regions yet, but I'm working on it.
I'm also an author and have recently published a novel set in Seville, Falling for Flamenco: Love and Flamenco in Seville. If anyone is interested in Seville is might be worth a look.
Thanks, looking forward to more books set in Spain.
I've moved from La Rioja to the Basque Country and I'm now reading El hijo del acordeonista (The Accordionist's Son) by Bernardo Atxaga. I'm reading the Castillian Spanish version of the novel which was originally written in euskera (Basque) and the author himself has translated/adapted the novel. The English translation is by Margaret Jull Costa.
I finally finished The Accordionist's Son, I found it a long read as it was rather disjointed and slow. However it was interesting in places particularly when considering the relationship an émigré has with his/her childhood home and language. Now moving on to The Canary Islands with Lorenzo Silva's La niebla y la doncella.
Now moved from the Canary Islands to Catalonia with La pista de hielo (available in English as The Skating Rink) by Roberto Bolaño.
Just finished a novel set in the province of Toledo Veinte años y un día by Jorge Semprún for Castile-La Mancha. Although it's been translated into several languages there doesn't seem to be an English version.
Adding:Castile and Leon: The Heretic: A Novel of the Inquisition by Miguel Delibes
Madrid: The Monk by Matthew Lewis
Adding Murcia: Homage to Murcia: A Season of Football Anarchy by Anthony Higgins, I don't normally read about football but hadn't found anything set in Murcia that particularly interested me so as this was available to borrow from the Kindle library I thought I'd give it a try. In the 2013-14 season Anthony Higgins followed fan owned club CAP Ciudad de Murcia, in the fifth tier of Spanish football. The asides about politics, history and life in Murcia (and other parts of Spain) were interesting. The book needed a bit more editing but I found it quite engaging and have a better idea about Murcia having read it.
Started 24/1/20 I'm going to try and attempt this too:
Here is a list of the 17 autonomous communities of Spain:
1. Andalucia:
2. Aragon:
3. Asturias:
4. Balearic Islands:
5. Basque Country: The Dinner Guest by Gabriela Ybarra
6. Canary Islands:
7. Cantabria:
8. Castile:
9. Castile and León:
10. Catalonia:
11. Extremadura:
12. Galicia:
13. La Rioja:
14. Madrid:
15. Murcia:
16. Navarre:
17. Valencia:
I will give this a go , and call it Wayne in Spain1. Andalucia (Cordoba, Granada, Seville)
2. Aragon (Zaragoza, Huesca)
3. Asturias (Oviedo, Gijón, Avilés)
4. Balearic Islands (Mallorca, Ibiza, Minorca, Formentera)
5. Basque Country (Álava, Biscay, Gipuzkoa)
6. Canary Islands (Tenerife)
7. Cantabria (Santander)
8. Castile-La Mancha (Toledo, Albacete)
9. Castile and León)
10. Catalonia (Barcelona)
11. Extremadura (Merida)
12. Galicia (Vigo, A Coruña) - The Way of Stars and Stones: Thoughts on a Pilgrimage
13. La Rioja (Logroño)
14. Madrid (Madrid)
15. Murcia (Cartagena, Murcia)
16. Navarre (Pamplona)
17. Valencia (Alicante, Castellón, Valencia)
Ceuta and Spanish Protectorate
Melilla
Wayne in Spain (2/19)1. Andalucia (Cordoba, Granada, Seville)
2. Aragon (Zaragoza, Huesca)
3. Asturias (Oviedo, Gijón, Avilés)
4. Balearic Islands (Mallorca, Ibiza, Minorca, Formentera)
5. Basque Country (Álava, Biscay, Gipuzkoa)
6. Canary Islands (Tenerife)
7. Cantabria (Santander)
8. Castile-La Mancha (Toledo, Albacete)
9. Castile and León)
10. Catalonia (Barcelona)
11. Extremadura (Merida)
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13. La Rioja (Logroño)
14. Madrid (Madrid)
15. Murcia (Cartagena, Murcia)
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17. Valencia (Alicante, Castellón, Valencia)
18. Ceuta and Spanish Protectorate
19. Melilla
10. Catalonia (Barcelona) - Mess in Barcelona11. Extremadura (Merida) - La famille de Pascal Duarte
Cadiz (region ?) - The Siege
1. Andalucia ( Seville) - Spanish short stories (Cervantes, Unamuno and others)
Starting 2020-05-221. Andalucia (Cordoba, Granada, Seville)
2. Aragon (Zaragoza, Huesca)
3. Asturias (Oviedo, Gijón, Avilés)
4. Balearic Islands (Mallorca, Ibiza, Minorca, Formentera)
5. Basque Country (Álava, Biscay, Gipuzkoa)
6. Canary Islands (Tenerife)
7. Cantabria (Santander)
8. Castile-La Mancha (Toldeo, Albacete)
9. Castile and León (Valladolid, Avila, Salamanca, Burgos)
10. Catalonia (Barcelona)
11. Extremadura (Merida)
12. Galicia (Vigo, A Coruña)
13. La Rioja (Logroño)
14. Madrid (Madrid)
15. Murcia (Cartagena, Murcia)
16. Navarre (Pamplona)
17. Valencia (Alicante, Castellón, Valencia)
Wayne in Spain (3/19)1. Andalucia (Cordoba, Granada, Seville)
2. Aragon (Zaragoza, Huesca)
3. Asturias (Oviedo, Gijón, Avilés)
4. Balearic Islands (Mallorca, Ibiza, Minorca, Formentera)
5. Basque Country (Álava, Biscay, Gipuzkoa)
6. Canary Islands (Tenerife)
7. Cantabria (Santander)
8. Castile-La Mancha (Toledo, Albacete)
9. Castile and León)
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11. Extremadura (Merida)
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13. La Rioja (Logroño)
14. Madrid (Madrid)
15. Murcia (Cartagena, Murcia)
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17. Valencia (Alicante, Castellón, Valencia)
18. Ceuta and Spanish Protectorate
19. Melilla
I've added Ceuta and Melilla (the two Spanish autonomous cities situated on the North African Coast) to my list. I've just read Arturo Pérez-Reverte's La reina del sur which features Melilla. There's an English translation Queen of the South and TV versions both in Spanish and English.
Melilla (and Granada) I should add when I finish my current read - Leon African by Maalouf-A, excellent French-Lebanese writer
Wayne in Spain (4/19)1. Andalucia (Cordoba, Granada, Seville)
2. Aragon (Zaragoza, Huesca)
3. Asturias (Oviedo, Gijón, Avilés)
4. Balearic Islands (Mallorca, Ibiza, Minorca, Formentera)
5. Basque Country (Álava, Biscay, Gipuzkoa)
6. Canary Islands (Tenerife)
7. Cantabria (Santander)
8. Castile-La Mancha (Toledo, Albacete)
9. Castile and León)
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11. Extremadura (Merida)
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13. La Rioja (Logroño)
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15. Murcia (Cartagena, Murcia)
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17. Valencia (Alicante, Castellón, Valencia)
18. Ceuta and Spanish Protectorate
19. Melilla
Wayne in Spain (5/19)1. Andalucia (Cordoba, Granada, Seville)
2. Aragon (Zaragoza, Huesca)
3. Asturias (Oviedo, Gijón, Avilés)
4. Balearic Islands (Mallorca, Ibiza, Minorca, Formentera)
5. Basque Country (Álava, Biscay, Gipuzkoa)
6. Canary Islands (Tenerife)
7. Cantabria (Santander)
8. Castile-La Mancha (Toledo, Albacete)
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11. Extremadura (Merida)
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13. La Rioja (Logroño)
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15. Murcia (Cartagena, Murcia)
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17. Valencia (Alicante, Castellón, Valencia)
18. Ceuta and Spanish Protectorate
19. Melilla
Wayne in Spain (6/19)1. Andalucia (Cordoba, Granada, Seville)
2. Aragon (Zaragoza, Huesca)
3. Asturias (Oviedo, Gijón, Avilés)
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5. Basque Country (Álava, Biscay, Gipuzkoa)
6. Canary Islands (Tenerife)
7. Cantabria (Santander)
8. Castile-La Mancha (Toledo, Albacete)
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11. Extremadura (Merida)
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13. La Rioja (Logroño)
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15. Murcia (Cartagena, Murcia)
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17. Valencia (Alicante, Castellón, Valencia)
18. Ceuta and Spanish Protectorate
19. Melilla
Wayne in Spain (7/19)1. Andalucia (Cordoba, Granada, Seville)
2. Aragon (Zaragoza, Huesca)
3. Asturias (Oviedo, Gijón, Avilés)
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5. Basque Country (Álava, Biscay, Gipuzkoa)
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8. Castile-La Mancha (Toledo, Albacete)
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11. Extremadura (Merida)
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13. La Rioja (Logroño)
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15. Murcia (Cartagena, Murcia)
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17. Valencia (Alicante, Castellón, Valencia)
18. Ceuta and Spanish Protectorate
19. Melilla
Wayne in Spain (8/19)1. Andalucia (Cordoba, Granada, Seville)
2. Aragon (Zaragoza, Huesca)
3. Asturias (Oviedo, Gijón, Avilés)
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5. Basque Country (Álava, Biscay, Gipuzkoa)
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8. Castile-La Mancha (Toledo, Albacete)
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15. Murcia (Cartagena, Murcia)
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17. Valencia (Alicante, Castellón, Valencia)
18. Ceuta and Spanish Protectorate
19. Melilla
Wayne in Spain (9/19)1. Andalucia (Cordoba, Granada, Seville)
2. Aragon (Zaragoza, Huesca)
3. Asturias (Oviedo, Gijón, Avilés)
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18. Ceuta and Spanish Protectorate
19. Melilla
Wayne in Spain (11/19)1. Andalucia (Cordoba, Granada, Seville)<
2. Aragon (Zaragoza, Huesca)
3. Asturias (Oviedo, Gijón, Avilés)
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I've finally completed my tour around the mainland with María Oruña's recently published detective novel Lo que la marea esconde. This is the fourth in a series set in Cantabria featuring a female guardia civil and her English partner. I hadn't read the previous books in the series but this was a good read, a "locked room" murder mystery with more than a nod to 20th century writers such as Agatha Christie. I hope Oruña's books do get translated into English, for me she's better than Dolores Redondo and Domingo Vilar who have both been translated. So 18/19 regions completed - I added the two Spanish enclaves on the North African coast to my challenge,I just need to find a book set in Ceuta .
Sounds like a really worthwhile read. Sometimes the best authors never get translated, which is very sad. I hope you find a book set in Ceuta. I certainly don't know any. You might find this blog really useful for that...https://literaryrambles.wordpress.com/Happy reading!
Sojourning In SpainStarted: January 2023
Progress: 0/17
1. Andalucia (Cordoba, Granada, Seville)
2. Aragon (Zaragoza, Huesca)
3. Asturias (Oviedo, Gijón, Avilés)
4. Balearic Islands (Mallorca, Ibiza, Minorca, Formentera)
5. Basque Country (Álava, Biscay, Gipuzkoa)
6. Canary Islands (Tenerife)
7. Cantabria (Santander)
8. Castile-La Mancha (Toldeo, Albacete)
9. Castile and León (Valladolid, Avila, Salamanca, Burgos)
10. Catalonia (Barcelona)
11. Extremadura (Merida)
12. Galicia (Vigo, A Coruña)
13. La Rioja (Logroño)
14. Madrid (Madrid)
15. Murcia (Cartagena, Murcia)
16. Navarre (Pamplona)
17. Valencia (Alicante, Castellón, Valencia)
Aguas de venganza by Miguel PajaresSo I've finally completed my challenge (begun 7 years ago!). I set myself the task of reading two more books, one for Ceuta and the other Melilla. I managed to find a book about a Barcelona based detective whose investigation into a double murder takes the reader to the Spanish border with Morocco in Ceuta.
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Here is a list of the 17 autonomous communities of Spain:
1. Andalucia (Cordoba, Granada, Seville)
2. Aragon (Zaragoza, Huesca)
3. Asturias (Oviedo, Gijón, Avilés)
4. Balearic Islands (Mallorca, Ibiza, Minorca, Formentera)
5. Basque Country (Álava, Biscay, Gipuzkoa)
6. Canary Islands (Tenerife)
7. Cantabria (Santander)
8. Castile-La Mancha (Toldeo, Albacete)
9. Castile and León (Valladolid, Avila, Salamanca, Burgos)
10. Catalonia (Barcelona)
11. Extremadura (Merida)
12. Galicia (Vigo, A Coruña)
13. La Rioja (Logroño)
14. Madrid (Madrid)
15. Murcia (Cartagena, Murcia)
16. Navarre (Pamplona)
17. Valencia (Alicante, Castellón, Valencia)