TORRES, RAFAEL / TORRES MULAS, RAFAEL
The English Eternal Summer is, in a way, a return visit to the onepaid to us, in their day, by romantic European travellers British inparticular. Readers will find in this book as much originality andexoticism as those travellers did in the Spain of the 18th, 19th andeven the 20th centuries. It tells, not so much the history of theEnglish Cemetery of Malaga, the first Protestant graveyard in ourcountry, but the story of the lives, lived to the full, of those whorest there, unique and unrepeatable fragments of the fascinatingmosaic that was formed by foreign communities in the South of Spain,together with passers-by, writers, fugitives, seamen, missionaries,spies, tourists, actresses, tradesmen, the shipwrecked and thestateless, all of whom came to rest in an eternal sleep in thatbeautiful cemetery, a botanical garden in fact, that still survives on the hillside of the Gibralfaro.
Rafael Torres concentrates into this book all his research, and hisability to interpret the past against a cosmopolitan backdrop, full of history, full of life: the Protestant Cemetery of Malaga. In it there are no large funerary monuments, or many celebrities, but there arereal events, many forgotten or thus far unknown, of two centuries ofrevolutions, wars, progress, epidemics, of trade, voyages andadventures in that corner of Europe where so many chose to live anddie.