{"id":8763,"date":"2013-05-07T10:39:42","date_gmt":"2013-05-07T14:39:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nadeaubarlow.com\/?p=8763"},"modified":"2013-05-07T10:45:40","modified_gmt":"2013-05-07T14:45:40","slug":"story-of-spanish-now-in-bookstores","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nadeaubarlow.com\/fr\/story-of-spanish-now-in-bookstores\/","title":{"rendered":"The Story of Spanish: Now in Bookstores"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"The<\/a>Today\u2019s the day! More than three years after we started researching and writing The Story of Spanish<\/a><\/i>, it\u2019s finally in stores (and available on Amazon, IndieBound, at Barnes & Noble, Chapters-Indigo and MacMillan)!<\/p>\n

It\u2019s funny, we\u2019re kicking off the publication with a piece we published in the Wall Street Journal last week called Cinco de Mayo No Hecho en M\u00e8xico, Actually<\/a><\/i>. And interestingly, we actually got the original idea for the book in Puebla \u2013 site of the Cinco de Mayo<\/i> battle \u2013 when Julie was there learning Spanish in 2006. At one point, she looked around her classroom and realized that all <\/i>of her classmates were professionals, who like her, had taken a month out of their lives to learn Spanish. They all told her they \u201cneeded\u201d Spanish for their work. She wondered, \u00a0\u201cWhy do so many Americans suddenly want to learn Spanish?\u201d and \u201cWhy is Spanish suddenly so important in the U.S.?\u201d<\/p>\n

The Story of Spanish<\/i> uncovers surprising answers to those questions, among other things. We actually had lots of surprises over the course of the research, like learning just how many cultures influenced the birth and evolution of Spanish, from the Phoenicians to the Germans, from the Arabs to the French. Some of the personalities that forged Spanish really blew our minds, from the 13th\u00a0century Castilian King who \u2013 out of the blue \u2013 decided to transform Spanish into a respectable language of culture, to the Catalan literary agent who single-handedly created the Latin American Boom.<\/p>\n

While we were writing The Story of Spanish<\/i>, we thought of this book as a \u201cbiography\u201d of the Spanish language. Our aim was to tell the story of all the people and circumstances that shaped Spanish over the course of its life\u2026so far. Some of these stories involve religious fervor, imperial ambition, geopolitics, plain old greed and the thirst for adventure. Others are about artistic and literary ambitions, fashion, the thirst for knowledge\u2013 and, last but not least, plain old business sense.<\/p>\n

And speaking of business\u2026The Story of Spanish <\/i>is now in stores!<\/p>\n

Booklist calls The Story of Spanish<\/i> \u201cpart travelogue\u201d<\/a> and that\u2019s also true: there is a bit of our friend Jacques\u2019 Nicaraguan wedding in it, anecdotes from our trip to Cuba, stories from Jean-Beno\u00eet\u2019s cave exploring expeditions in Mexico, Julie\u2019s travels in Andalusia, and, of course, many stories from our six months living in Arizona.<\/p>\n

Enjoy!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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