by Jason Webster · Black Swan · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780552999977
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«Duende: A Journey in Search of Flamenco» is Jason Webster's travelogue, published by Black Swan in paperback (352 pages, in English).
After a romantic breakup, Jason Webster abandons his academic career and goes to Spain to pursue the 'duende', the intense emotion that pulses through flamenco. The book recounts that immersion: obsessive guitar playing, dangerous love affairs, and the bohemian life of Alicante, Madrid, and Granada. A journey that is a rite of passage and an approach to the soul of flamenco.
The work's original title was 'Duende: A Journey Into the Heart of Flamenco' and it was shortlisted for the Guardian First Book Award in 2003.
For readers of travel literature and memoirs, and for those who want to know flamenco from within.
Jason Webster is an Anglo-American author who writes on Spain. He was born in California to British parents in 1970. He has spent most of his adult life in Spain, having settled in Valencia with his Spanish wife, actress and dancer Salud Botella. He is a director of The Scheherazade Foundation.
