EDWARD STANTON
VIDAS: DEEP IN MEXICO AND SPAIN
A wayward descendant of Mexico's national hero, a femme fatale who recites poems in cantinas, a Tunisian prostitute in Barcelona, a Spanish psychiatrist who fights brave bulls, the wise owner of the world's oldest restaurant. They are just a handful of the characters portrayed in VIDAS: Deep in Mexico and Spain, the first travel memoir to explore Mexico and Spain with the perspective of an American and the knowledge of an insider.
"Edward Stanton’s VIDAS is a love letter to the Mexican and Spanish peoples, a pure affirmation of life in countries with radical cultures of death."
Ana Merino, winner 2020 Premio Nadal, Spain’s premier award for literature
"This author, wise without being pedantic, playful yet profound, invites us to embark on a great adventure: to celebrate the glorious diversity of our worlds."
Alberto Ruy Sánchez, founder, Artes de México, winner, 2017 National Prize for Literature
WIDE AS THE WIND
When Vaitéa is ravaged by war, hunger and destruction, it falls upon Miru, the fifteen-year-old son of a tribal warrior, to sail to a distant island to find the seeds and shoots of trees that could reforest their homeland. If he decides to undertake the voyage, he must leave behind Kenetéa, a young woman from an enemy tribe with whom he has fallen deeply in love. And if Miru and his crew survive the storms, sharks and marauding ships that await them on a passage over uncharted ocean, an even greater mission would lie ahead. They must show their people that devotion to the earth and sea can be as strong as war and hatred. Wide as the Wind is both a stirring novel of discovery and a prophetic tale for our times.
"This novel transports us to an island world outside time and urgently relevant to us in the 21st century."
Leatha Kendrick, author, Almanac of the Invisible
"Wide as the Wind speaks to a fundamental truth: our need to protect the planet’s environment.."
John Flenley and Paul Bahn, authors of The Enigmas of Easter Island
ROAD OF STARS TO SANTIAGO
His life was a shambles, he felt exhausted by work, his marriage was foundering. So he prepared a backpack, found a walking staff and departed on a 30-day, 500-mile journey along the Camino de Santiago, the route across northern Spain that has been followed by pilgrims for at least a thousand years. He knew what he was fleeing from, not what he was seeking. The Camino would teach him that and many other things.
Edward Stanton’s Road of Stars to Santiago was named by the New York Times as one of the best books on the pilgrimage.
Translated to Spanish
HEMINGWAY AND SPAIN: A PURSUIT
Edward Stanton follows Ernesto’s footsteps across Spain some twenty years after the writer’s death, shows the changes in the land and the people, and illuminates the author’s works about the place he called “the last good country.”
Also translated to Spanish
"...Stanton, in a book that combines luminous travel writing with literary criticism, explores the...territory of the writer’s psyche [Spain], a country that he loved better than any other after his own."
Joseph Coates, Chicago Tribune
“Hemingway and Spain is an informative, sensitive, beautiful book that is impossible to put down. With every word of this unusual study, the author displays an impressive knowledge of Spanish language and culture and the respect Ernest Hemingway felt for them... No one should ever read or teach Hemingway’s Spanish novel without a careful reading of Stanton’s book, for here, in unpretentious, clear prose, is the most profound understanding of the Spanish background of the novel available. Hemingway and Spain is an essential book, a study filled with knowledge and sensitivity, that will take its place among the important books on Hemingway."
James Nagel, Modern Fiction Studies
THE TRAGIC MYTH: LORCA AND CANTE JONDO
In Part I of this study, Edward Stanton examines Lorca's theoretical and practical approach to cante jondo, the traditional music of Andalusia, as seen in his lectures on the subject and in the famous 1922 Concurso in Granada.
In Part II, he searches for direct and—far more important—indirect echoes of this music in his work.
Part III explores the mythic quality of Lorca's art in relation to cante jondo. Throughout, Stanton illuminates a new dimension of the poet's work.
Also translated to Arabic