Spanish Son

By Thomas de la Cal

When Thomas de la Cal fled Castro's Cuba in 1960, he and his family went searching for their Spanish roots. The quest turned into a 50-year adventure that took him to his ancestral homestead in the wilds of Galicia where fairies and witches still roam, to the heartland of Spain populated by monarchs, mystics and saints, and to the sun-drenched south where Hercules altered the landscape in a fit of passion (or so the legend goes).The author's love of Spanish food leads him to an oak forest populated by black-footed pigs, an orchard filled with Spain's liquid gold and a lagoon that gave birth to paella. He savors the country's delicacies at his local tapas bar, studies its clientele and discovers why every Spaniard is a king.De la Cal tells his compelling story first through the eyes of an impressionable young boy living under the iron grip of Franco, later as a foreign correspondent covering the euphoria of the young democracy, and finally as a film festival agent sharing his secret watering holes with Hollywood stars.From Goya's obsession with a grand duchess to a close encounter with Orson Welles' parrot, de la Cal leads the reader on an intimate and exciting journey through an amazing land where they live, eat, sing, and love like there is no ma?ana.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0692395644
• ISBN13: 9780692395646
• Release Date: January 2015
• Publisher: Caminante Media
• Length: 360 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Age Range: 15 years and up