David Frey

“I can’t handle the emotion of this,” a woman was saying as she accepted the remains of her father, “so many years being with the fascists trampling over us, insulting us, and it’s still going on. It’s still going on.” The ceremony was already in process when we arrived. We rented a car and...
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In 2000, Silva, a journalist, had left his magazine job and began to write a novel about his grandfather. He started interviewing people who knew him. One man, a childhood friend, was the brother of the man who escaped that night. The two set off to find the grave. “In this town, there are...
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This is the story of his grandfather that Emilio Silva has managed to piece together. Emilio Silva Faba was born in 1894 into a family of farmers in the village of Pareje, in northwest Spain. At 21, he left for the Americas, first Argentina, then New York, then Connecticut. Had fate been kind, he...
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These days, it’s hard to find evidence the Spanish Civil War ever happened. Battlefield tours don’t meander through Madrid. Towns that Franco’s forces carpet-bombed have been rebuilt. When Franco died in 1975, he returned the country to the king, who returned it to democracy. With Franco gone, his 40-year dictatorship shamed supporters into silence....
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For 50 years, its whereabouts has been a mystery, writes Christopher Baker, but the mystery may be solved. Hemingway’s 1955 Chrysler seems to have appeared. Somehow, Baker writes, the Chrysler New Yorker DeLuxe ended up in the hands of Hemingway’s driver, and then, mysteriously, into the hands of the government, which has moved the...
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“I called Sam and asked him if he wanted to come to dinner but he said he had softball practice and I said that was a damned shame and hung up. When I got to Sun City Bea and Rob were at were at the bar, behind tattooed women and men with guitars. They were...
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