Here's a nice, in-depth review of Javier Cercas' The Anatomy of a Moment, a book about which we apparently cannot shut up.

Remember when I was all, "Hey, you should totally read Javier Cercas' The Anatomy of a Moment: Thirty-Five Minutes in History and Imagination, even if you are unfamiliar with its subject," and you were like, "Whatever, why should I listen to you?" Well, fair enough, you're probably better off. But now you don't have to listen to me. Both the Economist ("a persuasive, brilliant and absorbing book that has more contemporary resonance than even he might have imagined") and the New Yorker ("this remarkable work of nonfiction") have recently weighed in, and if you can't trust those guys and me, I don't know who you can [...]

My knowledge of modern Spanish history—like my knowledge of so much else—is pathetically thin; sure, I know some about Franco and the overthrow of the Republic and the years of darkness and stagnation that followed, but most of what I'm conversant in starts with the limping end of Felipe González's final government and takes me up to now. Half of it probably comes from Almodóvar movies. This makes it even more astounding that I found Javier Cercas' The Anatomy of a Moment: Thirty-Five Minutes in History and Imagination so gripping. The book examines the attempted coup against Adolfo Suárez and the democratically-elected government that took place just thirty years [...]