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Esta historia es un homenaje al cine negro americano y a los tugurios en donde los grandes musicos inventaron el jazz, una evocacion de las pasiones amorosas que discurren en el torbellino del mundo y el resultado de la fascinacion por la intriga que enmascara los motivos del crimen. Entre Lisboa, Madrid y San Sebastian, la inspiracion musical del jazz envuelve una historia de amor. El pianista Santiago Biralbo se enamora de Lucrecia y son perseguidos por su marido, Bruce Malcolm. Mientras, un cuadro de Cezanne tambien desaparece y Toussaints Morton, procedente de Angola y patrocinador de una organizacion ultraderechista, traficante de cuadros y libros antiguos, participa en la persecucion. La intriga criminal se enreda siguiendo un ritmo meticuloso e infalible. El Invierno en Lisboa confirmo plenamente las cualidades de un autor que se cuenta ya por derecho propio entre los valores mas firmes de la actual novela espanola. El invierno en Lisboa fue galardonada con el premio de la Critica y el premio Nacional de Literatura en 1988 y fue llevada al cine, con la participacion del trompetista Dizzy Gillespie....
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From one of Spain's most celebrated writers, an extraordinary, inspired book—at once fiction, history, and memoir—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, Muñoz Molina evokes people real and imagined who come together in a richly allusive pattern—from Eugenia Ginsburg to Grete Buber-Neumann, the one on a train to the gulag, the other heading toward a Nazi concentration camp; from a shoemaker and a nun who become lovers in a small Spanish town to Primo Levi bound for Auschwitz. From the well known to the virtually unknown—all of Molina's characters are voices of separation, nostalgia, love, and endless waiting.
Written with clarity of vision and passion, in a style both lyrical and accessible, Sepharad makes the experience our own.
A brilliant achievement.
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En esta novela envolvente, Antonio Muñoz Molina nos brinda un fabuloso relato del paso de las generaciones y de un hombre que busca comprender cómo llegó a ser quien Un traductor simultáneo que viaja de ciudad en ciudad le cuenta su vida a una mujer, evocando en su relato las voces de los habitantes de Mágina, su pueblo natal. Así sabremos de su bisabuelo Pedro, que era expósito y estuvo en Cuba; de su abuelo, guardia de asalto que en 1939 acabó en un campo de concentración; de sus padres, campesinos de resignada y oscura vida, y de su propia niñez y turbulenta adolescencia en un lugar en plena transformación. En un período 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 España, formando un apasionante mosaico de vidas a través de las cuales se recrea un pasado que ilumina y explica la personalidad del narrador. Esta prodigiosa novela, urdida en torno a circunstancias biográficas, se transforma en una peripecia histórica surcada por tramas que se entrelazan con la principal, la enriquecen y se enriquecen con ella. ...
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Mario Lopez, a young man who never stayed after work for the usual happy hour, lives almost exclusively for his wife, Blanca. For a civil employee like him, whose life is monotonous, Blanca embodies the sunshine in his life, and in return, he brings tranquility and stability to hers. Mario however has a constant fear of losing her, a fear of abandonment and the outside world will manage to make that happen. Description in Spanish: Mario, un joven funcionario de provincias, vive dedicado a su trabajo y, sobre todo, a su mujer, Blanca, por quien siente una profunda fascinación. Juntos forman una pareja complementaria: él encarna la sencillez, la paz del hogar, la fortaleza; ella, en cambio, representa el lado exquisito de la vida, pero también la inestabilidad. Por eso Mario vive intranquilo, siempre alerta. Percibe que algo inquietante amenaza su unión....
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"Part mystery, part comedy of manners. . . . The Flaubert of Madame Bovary and the Henry James of The Turn of the Screw meet in the unresolved enigma of In Her Absence." —Le Point
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 the love of Blanca, Mario eats sushi and carpaccio, nods in feigned understanding at experimental films, sits patiently through long conversations with her avant-garde friends, and conceals his disgust at shocking art exhibits.
Then, little by little, a strange and ominous threat begins to weigh on the marriage.
How can love survive its own disappearance? The desperate answer that Antonio Muñoz Molina proposes in this short, circular novella is a model of literary strategy and style, a splendid homage to Flaubert....
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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 obscure republican poet named Jacinto Solana. The country house is full of traces of the poet—notes, photographs, journals—and Minaya soon discovers that, thirty years earlier, during the Spanish Civil War, both his uncle and Solana were in love with the same woman, the beautiful, unsettling Mariana. Engaged to Manuel, she was shot in the attic of the house on her wedding night. With the aid of Inés, a maid, Minaya begins to search for Solana’s lost masterpiece, a novel called Beatus Ille. Looking for a book, he unravels a crime. (20080902)...
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