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~ Potpourri: Spain

Julio!


Julio Iglesias at the 1970 Eurovision Song Contest (Eric Koch / Anefo; Nationaal Archief. Wikimedia Commons.)

El español que enamoró al mundo; Una vida de Julio Iglesias (Libros de Asteroide) is a biography of the pop singer by the very fine stylist, Ignacio Peyró. This cultivated literary journalist, brings a rare complexity to his portrait of the Latin heartthrob who’s sold 300 million albums worldwide. It’s one of those non-fiction chronicles in which the topic doesn’t really matter, you are absorbed by the literary depth and richness of the style.