Antonio Muñoz Molina

La novela que consagr a Antonio Mu oz Molina. Un traductor que viaja de ciudad en ciudad le cuenta su vida a una mujer, evocando en su relato las voces de los habitantes de M gina, su pueblo natal. As sabremos de su bisabuelo Pedro, que era exp sito y estuvo en Cuba; de su abuelo, guardia de asalto que en 1939 acab en un campo de concentraci n; de sus padres, campesinos de resignada y oscura vida, y de su propia ni ez y turbulenta adolescencia en un lugar en plena transformaci n. En un per odo de tiempo comprendido entre el asesinato de Prim en 1870 y la guerra del Golfo, estos y otros personajes van configurando el curso de la historia de esa comunidad y de Espa a, formando un apasionante mosaico de vidas a trav s de las cuales se recrea un pasado que ilumina y explica la personalidad del narrador. Galardonada con el Premio Planeta en 1991 y el Premio Nacional de Literatura en 1992, El jinete polaco es una novela envolvente, torrencial, soberbiamente escrita, considerada una de las m s ambiciosas y logradas de la narrativa espa ola.

Durante su juventud, Gabriel Aristu y Adriana Zuber protagonizaron una apasionada historia de amor que parecía destinada a durar para siempre. El futuro, sin embargo, tenía otros planes para ellos. Separados durante cincuenta años por un océano de incomunicación, ella atrapada en la España de la dictadura, él viviendo el éxito profesional en Estados Unidos, vuelven a encontrarse en el ocaso de sus días. Miradas, caricias, deseos acallados y viejos reproches dejarán paso entonces a la constatación de que la nostalgia de aquel primer amor lo es también de la persona que una vez fuimos. No te veré morir es una novela sobre el poder de la memoria y del olvido, la lealtad y la traición, los estragos del tiempo y la obstinación del amor y sus espejismos. La conmovedora historia de una pasión frustrada por la vida y un hermoso retrato de la vejez escritos con una delicadeza extrema. Tras aquel «magistral acto de fe en la escritura como depósito de memoria» (Domingo Ródenas de Moya, Babelia) que supuso Volver a dónde, Antonio Muñoz Molina vuelve al territorio de la ficción con una novela soberbia marcada por la musicalidad de una prosa que recuerda al mejor Thomas Bernhard.

Winner of the 2020 Prix Médicis etranger I want to live on foot, by hand, by pencil, at ease, responsive to whatever I meet, loose like the air that moves around my body as I walk or like a graceful swimming stroke. I want to remain astonished. Join Antonio Muñoz Molina for a walk through Madrid, Paris, London and New York, where the past and the present live side by side in the literature of newspaper headlines, billboards, casual glances and overheard conversation. This is the digital metropolis, captured in notebooks, recorded on the iPhone, where Edgar Allan Poe, Herman Melville, Charles Baudelaire, Thomas de Quincey, Fernando Pessoa and Walter Benjamin step beside us, all of us writing the unfinished poem of the crowded city.

The sheer energy of the digital metropolis - superb fiction from a Spanish master at the peak of his powers.

Winner of the 2020 Medici Prize for Foreign NovelFrom the award-winning author of the Man Booker Prize finalist Like a Fading Shadow, Antonio Mu oz Molina presents a fl neur-novel tracing the path of a nameless wanderer as he walks the length of Manhattan, and his mind. De Quincey, Baudelaire, Poe, Joyce, Benjamin, Melville, Lorca, Whitman . . . walkers and city dwellers all, collagists and chroniclers, picking the detritus of their eras off the filthy streets and assembling it into something new, shocking, and beautiful. In To Walk Alone in the Crowd, Antonio Mu oz Molina emulates these classic inspirations, following their peregrinations and telling their stories in a book that is part memoir, part novel, part chronicle of urban wandering. A skilled collagist himself, Mu oz Molina here assembles overheard conversations, subway ads, commercials blazing away on public screens, snatches from books hurriedly packed into bags or shoved under one's arm, mundane anxieties, and the occasional true flash of insight--struggling to announce itself amid this barrage of data--into a poem of contemporary life: an invitation to let oneself be carried along by the sheer energy of the digital metropolis. A denunciation of the harsh noise of capitalism, of the conversion of everything into either merchandise or garbage (or both), To Walk Alone in the Crowd is also a celebration of the beauty and variety of our world, of the ecological and aesthetic gaze that can, even now, recycle waste into art, and provide an opportunity for rebirth.

Vem är du i andras ögon? Vad gör du om människorna omkring dig plötsligt börjar visa dig förakt, och du tvingas fly från ditt hem och ditt land? Sefarad berättar den tragiska historien om människor som drabbades av nazismens förföljelser, av Stalintidens utrensningar, av Francoregimens repressalier. Vi får följa Jevgenija Ginsburg på väg mot Gulag och Margerete Buber-Neumann på ett tåg mot ett koncentrationsläger, och träffa sefardiska judar som lyckades undkomma förintelsen. Men författaren fabulerar också fritt kring gestalter från sina hemtrakter i Andalusien, som skomakaren som var en nunnas älskare och sedan hamnade bland transvestiter och heroinister i Madrid. Tillsammans bildar berättelserna, likt skärvor ur det förflutna, en mosaik över 1900-talets Europa.

A hypnotic novel intertwining the author's past with James Earl Ray's attempt to escape after shooting Martin Luther King Jr. The year is 1968 and James Earl Ray has just shot Martin Luther King Jr. For two months he evades authorities, driving to Canada, securing a fake passport, and flying to London, all while relishing the media's confusion about his location and his image on the FBI's Most Wanted list. Eventually he lands at the Hotel Portugal in Lisbon, where he anxiously awaits a visa to Angola. But the visa never comes, and for his last ten days of freedom, Ray walks around Lisbon, paying for his pleasures and rehearsing his fake identities. Using recently declassified FBI files, Antonio Mu oz Molina reconstructs Ray's final steps through the Portuguese capital, taking us inside his feverish mind, troubled past, and infamous crime. But Lisbon is also the city that inspired Mu oz Molina's first novel, A Winter in Lisbon, and as he returns now, thirty years later, it becomes the stage for and witness to three alternating stories: Ray in 1968 at the center of an international manhunt; a thirty-year-old Mu oz Molina in 1987 struggling to find his literary voice; and the author in the present, reflecting on his life and the form of the novel as an instrument for imagining the world through another person's eyes. Part historical fiction, part fictional memoir, Like a Fading Shadow masterfully explores the borders between the imagined, the reported, and the experienced past in the construction of identity.

Shortlisted for The Man Booker International Prize 2018 On April 4th 1968, Martin Luther King was murdered by a man named James Earl Ray. Before Ray's capture and sentencing to 99 years' imprisonment, he evaded the FBI for two months as he crossed the globe under various aliases. At the heart of his story is Lisbon, where he spent ten days attempting to acquire an Angolan visa. Like a Fading Shadow traces three journeys to the city: Ray's desperate attempt to evade justice in 1968; a research trip undertaken by the young Muñoz Molina for his breakthrough novel Winter in Lisbon in 1987; and the return journey taken by the novelist as he attempts to reconstruct these twin stories from the instability of the past, and interrogates his own obsession with one of the twentieth century's most notorious figures. Aided by the recent declassification of James Earl Ray's FBI case file, Like a Fading Shadow boldly weaves a taut retelling of Ray's assassination of King, his time on the run and his eventual capture together with a highly original, fearlessly honest examination of the novelist's own past.