Antonio Munoz Molina, Author, Edith Grossman, Translator , trans. from the Spanish by Edith Grossman. Harcourt $25 (305p) ISBN 978-0-15-101410-1
Following Muñoz Molina’s acclaimed 18th book, Sepharad
, this translation of his third novel (published in his native Spain in 1986) dives into a bleak corner of Franco’s waning dictatorship. In 1969, Minaya, a student who has...
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Antonio Muñoz Molina, trans. from the Spanish by Edith Grossman. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, $30 (656p) ISBN 978-0-547-54784-8
A War and Peace for the Spanish Civil War, this classically sweeping novel from Molina (A Manuscript of Ashes) follows a large cast of characters, intermingling real and fictional figures, through times of both peaceful routine and grotesque...
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Antonio Munoz Molina, Author, Esther Allen, Translator , trans. from the Spanish by Esther Allen. Other Press $13.95 (134p) ISBN 978-1-59051-253-1
Propelled by an ironic sense of foreboding, this clever, circular account of the unraveling of a strained marriage follows Mario, a Spanish civil servant who thrives on routine, after he becomes convinced his wife, Blanca, has deserted him and left...
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Antonio Munoz Molina, Author, Margaret Sayers Peden, Translator , trans. from the Spanish by Margaret Sayers Peden. Harcourt $27 (385p) ISBN 978-0-15-100901-5
Award-winning Spanish author Muñoz Molina explores themes of memory and exile in this dense, ardent volume, his second to be translated into English (after Winter in Lisbon
). "I have invented very little in the stories and voices that...
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Antonio Muñoz Molina, trans. from the Spanish by Camilo A. Ramirez. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $27 (320p) ISBN 978-0-374-12690-2
Blurring fiction, memoir, and biography, the absorbing latest from Molina tells two stories: James Earl Ray’s 10-day excursion to Lisbon while on the run after assassinating Martin Luther King Jr. in 1968, and the author’s own research trip to the...
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