Publisher's Synopsis
Death in the afternoon is a classic of bullfighting literature. During those years he met numerous characters related to the festival, attended the fairs that were held throughout Spain and collected more than four hundred photographs by different bullfighting photographers, eighty of which are included for the first time in a Spanish edition of this work. Hemingway talks about bulls but also about his life in Spain, he describes the society of the time, he comments on the issues that catch his attention, from the weather or the food to what Spanish women are like. A whole sociological study drawn with the gifts of an exceptional journalist.