In Hiding: The Life of Manuel Cortes

In Hiding: The Life of Manuel Cortes by FRASER, Ronald.New. hardcover edition. ISBN: 9780394479415.

â In the mountain of books about that war there cannot be another so brief and yet so complete, so unguarded and yet so subtle, so movingly human as this.â â Arthur Miller, The New York Times In Hiding is the spellbinding story of a man who spent thirty years holed up in his own home to escape execution. Manuel CortÃs, a socialist and mayor of the village of Mijas in Andalusia, became a marked man once Francoâ s forces took power. CortÃs stayed under cover until amnesty was decreed in 1969. This absorbing narrative, based on numerous in-depth interviews, chronicles an awe-inspiring ordeal and depicts one of Spainâ s darkest hours in visceral detail.