Tipo: Traducción
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Comme l’ombre qui s’en va
Le 4 avril 1968, James Earl Ray assassine Martin Luther King à Memphis et prend la fuite. Entre le 8 et le 17 mai de la même année, il se cache à Lisbonne où, en 2013, Antonio Muñoz Molina part sur ses traces et se remémore son premier voyage dans la capitale portugaise, alors qu’il…
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Un promeneur solitaire dans la foule
Muni d’un carnet, d’une paire de ciseaux et de son smartphone, Antonio Muñoz Molina marche dans Paris, New York, Madrid, Lisbonne. Au fil de ses pérégrinations, des silhouettes surgissent tandis que d’autres s’esquivent et, soudain, au détour d’une ruelle, apparaissent Baudelaire, Edgar Allan Poe ou Fernando Pessoa. Les pages s’écoulent au rythme de la vie,…
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A manuscript of ashes
It’s the late sixties, the last dark years of Franco’s dictatorship: Minaya, a university student in Madrid, is caught up in the student protests and the police are after him. He moves to his uncle Manuel’s country estate in the small town of Mágina to write his thesis on an old friend of Manuel’s, an…
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Like a fading shadow
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…
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Sepharad
From one of Spain’s most celebrated writers comes an extraordinary book that draws on the Sephardic diaspora, the Holocaust, and Stalin’s purges to tell a twentieth-century story. Shifting seamlessly from the past to the present and following the routes of escape across countries and continents, Antonio Muñoz Molina evokes people real and imagined who come…
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In the night of time
October 1936. Spanish architect Ignacio Abel arrives at Penn Station, the final stop on his journey from war-torn Madrid, where he has left behind his wife and children, abandoning them to uncertainty. Crossing the fragile borders of Europe, he reflects on months of fratricidal conflict in his embattled country, his own transformation from a bricklayer’s…
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To walk alone in the crowd
Winner of the 2020 Medici Prize for Foreign NovelDe 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 Muñoz…
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In her absence
During working hours, Mario is a dutiful bureaucrat, scrupulously earning his paycheck as an employee of the provincial Spanish town where he lives. But when he walks through the door of his apartment, he is transformed into the impassioned lover of Blanca, the beautiful, inscrutable wife he saved from the brink of personal crisis. For…