books in order

Antonio Muñoz Molina Books In Order

Novels

  1. Prince of Shadows (1993)
  2. Winter in Lisbon (1999)
  3. Sepharad (2003)
  4. In Her Absence (2007)
  5. A Manuscript of Ashes (2008)
  6. In the Night of Time (2013)
  7. Like the Fading Shadow (2017)
  8. To Walk Alone in the Crowd (2021)

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Antonio Muñoz Molina Books Overview

Sepharad

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, Munoz 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 to a Na*zi concentration camp; from a shoemaker and a nun who become lovers in a small town in Spain to Primo Levi bound for Auschwitz. And others-some well known, others unknown-all 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.

In Her Absence

‘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 PointDuring 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 Mu oz Molina proposes in this short, circular novella is a model of literary strategy and style, a splendid homage to Flaubert.

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 M gina 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 In s, 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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