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A Death In Zamora Paperback – September 25, 2003

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This book describes a son's search in the 1980s Spain for his birth mother's story through interviews with family members and childhood friends. With his wife Judith as translator, the author returned to Zamora 48 years after he and his sister were evacuated from the fascist zone to France after their mother had been imprisoned for several months and then shot. First published hard cover in 1989 by The University of New Mexico Press to reviews in the New York Times and other dailies.

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September 25, 2003
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5.25 x 0.75 x 8 inches
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1588987892
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published author, composer, communitarian. Three grown-up sons, three grandchildren. I have a wonderful wife, and fulfilled life, and the best dog in the world. I work as the Administrative Director of a church/community center.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ BookSurge Publishing; First Edition (September 25, 2003)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 332 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1588987892
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1588987891
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 12.3 ounces
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.25 x 0.75 x 8 inches

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Ramón Sender Barayón is a central figure in the history of the greater Bay Area counterculture: electronic music pioneer, co-producer of the Trips Festival in San Francisco, consigliere and chief remembrancer of Morning Star and Wheeler Ranch open land communes. Born in Spain in 1934, he is a living link between the radical communal traditions [Spanish Anarchist Naturism] of the Old World through his father, the Spanish Anarchist novelist Ramon J. Sender, and the New World through his first wife Sibyl’s great-grandfather, John Humphrey Noyes, who founded the nineteenth century religious utopian Oneida Community. In exile from fascist Spain with his father and sister — as “citizens of the planet, without attachments... radical cosmopolitans,” Ramón grew up in New York, where he began his music studies (before continuing at the San Francisco Conservatory and Mills College). He first tasted communal living in his early twenties via the authoritarian communism of the Bruderhof, and went on to co-found the Digger commune, Morning Star Ranch, with Limeliter Lou Gottlieb.

Edited from an introduction by Iain Boal in “West of Eden: Communes and Utopia in Northern California” (PM Press, 2011)

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PatriciaS

Finding a path to the past

Reviewed in the United States on November 24, 2014

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This was a heart-jerker book and I could not put it down. I was lucky enough that my ancestors left Spain before 1936 and the horror of Franco. For this man (author) to follow the clues in order to learn what happened to his mother during that war was amazing to me. His finding people who remembered her, those who were his relatives and his ability to research by touching Spanish soil where the story happened was very emotional. Very nice job.

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Wayne Higdon

Moving and educational

Reviewed in the United States on January 1, 2018

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A deeply personal story arising from inhuman acts committed in political civil war. I was fascinated from start to end.

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Professor Paul Preston

The Crimes of Franco

Reviewed in the United States on December 1, 2003

This is a deeply moving, indeed deeply upsetting book, which has much to say to several different audiences. The central narrative relates the quest by man brought up in the United States to discover the fate of his mother in Spain during the Civil War of the 1930s. His father was the world famous novelist, Ramón J.Sender, author of Seven Red Sundays and a well-known leftist. A target for the military rebels because of being married to Sender, Amparo Barayón fled to her native city of Zamora hoping to be safe there. In fact, she was imprisoned, tortured and eventually executed - her horrendous fate typical of what happened to many innocent women at the hands of the supporters of General Franco. In that sense, this book is a major contribution to the history of right-wing atrocities during the Spanish War. In addition, however, the subsequent story of how Ramón J. Sender took his two children to the United States and then virtually abandoned them is also horrific in its way and makes for a tragic psychological drama that will be of interest to many people not concerned with Spanish history. The story of Ramón Sender Barayón's quest also happens to be a rivetting detective story. I read the first edition of this book about six years ago and immediately bought several copies to give to friends and their reaction confirmed my own. An important and neglected masterpiece!

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Peter Meuleners

An Intense Family History

Reviewed in the United States on April 11, 2004

This book is astonishing. I found myself amused, curious, sad, and almost uncontrollably angry, sometimes all on the same page. The writing style is distinctive. As I progressed through the book I became consumed by it. In some passages the transition from the present to the past comes without warning, from interview to narrative without segue, as if the memories of the author or the memories of another have suddenly taken a life of their own and started writing themselves. An old adage I love goes something like this: "Disturb the comfortable and comfort the disturbed." I found A Death in Zamora to be one of the most profoundly disturbing books I have ever read. I was aware of the tragedies of the Spanish Civil War but the story of the author's search for the truth about his mother brings them to the public on such a personal level. He has shown us a piece of his soul, a piece of his family'a soul, a piece of Spain's soul.

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Amazing personal story applicable to many conflicts today

Reviewed in the United States on April 12, 2004

Sender-Baryon's book evokes transcendent sadnesses by unfolding so artfully yet simply the story of one family's horrors under a style of political brutality all too familiar in the world.
The most poignant aspect, of course, as we have been told so many times in such stories, is the pain and guilt of the survivors tormenting themselves with their personal might-have-dones.

It never ends. There are 800,000 stories like this one about Franco's Spain waiting to be told by Rwandans about the Hutu massacre of the Tutsis. These stories, like those of Spain, await because the world knew of the evil and turned away, despite all we of Euro-American culture have learned about Hitler, Franco, Stalin, Milosevic, etc.

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Richard ILIFFE

Sad and moving story

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on September 5, 2018

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Brilliant book. Terrible fate for Modern woman (Amapro Barayón) in her home town of Zamora . La España profunda. This is another reason why Spain needs a Truth Commission. FALANGE KILLERS !

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