Antonio Muñoz Molina duikt in het ingewikkelde samenspel tussen realiteit en fictie, waarbij hij vaak thema's als herinnering en verlies onderzoekt. Zijn schrijven kenmerkt zich door een rijke, sfeervolle proza die lezers meeneemt naar zorgvuldig gecreëerde fictieve landschappen. Door middel van zijn verhalen onderzoekt hij de donkerdere facetten van de menselijke conditie, met behoud van een onderscheidende literaire stem.
Set against the backdrop of Madrid in 1935/36, just before the Spanish Civil War, Ignacio Abel, a successful architect, embarks on a passionate affair with American Judith Biely. Following a tragic turn of events, Ignacio searches for Judith amidst escalating political turmoil, leading to a fateful reunion in America. The novel intricately weaves themes of love, betrayal, and missed opportunities.
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 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.
The internationally bestselling tour de force of love and tragedy in the Spanish Civil War.
De Quincey, Baudelaire, Poe, Joyce, Walter Benjamin, Melville, Lorca, Whitman... Antonio Muñoz Molina emulates these classical inspirations, following their peregrinations as well as telling their stories, in a book that is part memoir, part novel, part chronicle of urban wandering. A master collagist himself, Molina assembles overheard conversations, subway ads, commercials blazing away on public screens, snatches from books packed into bags, mundane anxieties, and the true flash of insight, into a poem of contemporary life: an invitation to be carried along by the sheer energy of the digital metropolis.
Antonio Muñoz Molina is a true original and has written a book unlike anything else: part fiction, part memoir, part meditation, in which the interiority of a murderer on the run - and not just any murderer but James Earl Ray, the assassin of Martin Luther King - is set against the interiority of the writer, when young, trying to find his voice. The stories of the killer and the writer circle each other, interrogate and echo each other, and then diverge. A novel is a kind of refuge too, Muñoz Molina suggests. Only one of the two men in this terrific book will find the refuge he seeks. Salman Rushdie
Set against the backdrop of Lisbon, a man's seemingly serene life begins to unravel as he prepares for his wife’s arrival. While she remains in New York focused on a research project, he grapples with unsettling feelings linked to their past marked by 9/11. As he meticulously plans their future, he becomes increasingly aware of a mysterious threat. This psychological thriller delves into the interplay of emotions and memories, revealing how they distort our reality and the fragile narratives we construct about ourselves.
Desde la ventana de la habitación de un hotel, frente al iluminado campanario que siglos atrás fuera alminar, Antonio Muñoz Molina nos asoma a una Córdoba a lomos de las monturas musulmanas que traspasaron las murallas.
In der spanischen Stadt Mágina wird eine Christusreliquie gestohlen. Journalist Lorencito Quesada soll sie zurückholen und folgt der Spur nach Madrid, wo er bald auf eine Leiche stößt. Dies markiert den Beginn eines Alptraums, der seine bisherigen Erfahrungen weit übersteigt.
Unter der Kalifendynastie der Omaijaden vom 8. bis zum 11. Jahrhundert erlebte Córdoba eine einzigartige Blütezeit. Antonio Munoz Molina berichtet von jener Epoche, in der sich das Provinzstädtchen Córdoba in die „Stadt der Wunder“ verwandelte. Er erzählt von Kriegsherren und Gelehrten, von Dichtern und Despoten, vom glanzvollen Aufstieg und rasanten Fall einer märchenhaften Dynastie.
