In Hiding: The Life of Manuel Cortes

Pantheon Books, 1972-01-01. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Pantheon Books [Published Date: 1972]. Hardcover, 238 pp. First American Edition. Very good in very good dust jacket. Yellow cloth covered boards with red lettering on front and red and black lettering on spine. Light bumping and scuffing to edges of covers. Binding tight. Pages clean and unmarked. Dust jacket has a few small nicks and tears and light creasing along edges. light overall scuffing, aging and aging to jacket as well. NOT price clipped. Now in an archival-quality (removable) Brodart Cover. NOT Ex-Library. NO remainder marks. [From front jacket flap] The moving chronicle of a man's incredible, generation-long concealment, In Hiding is the story of Manuel Cortes, the mayor of a village near Malaga before its fall to Franco's forces during the Spanish Civil War. In 1969, following an amnesty declaration by the government, the mayor came out of hiding - thirty years' incarceration in his own home, time often passed literally in nooks and crannies of a wall. On one level this is the simple and dramatic story of his and his wife's and daughter's everyday toil to earn their livelihood, to keep up the outward appearance of normal lives, to withstand searches, interrogations, fire and sickness without giving away their mortal secret. As such it is a testimony to man's infinite resourcefulness and capacity for survival. On a second level, this is a rousing account by an exceptional man of sixty years of Spanish history that touched his life, a knowing and humane depiction of the social and human texture of village life and politics that formed the bedrock of agrarian Spain.