Antonio Muñoz Molina Books

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.

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.

"Sefarad" è il nome con cui gli ebrei chiamavano la Spagna al tempo della loro espulsione alla fine del Quattrocento: un nome che nei secoli è divenuto sinonimo di "un luogo remoto, quasi inesistente, un paese inaccessibile,sconosciuto, ingrato". Il luogo della memoria, delle radici, la patria perduta. A questo luogo dello spirito Antonio Muñoz Molina dedica questo libro, che lui stesso definisce "romanzo di romanzi", in cui si fondono storie immaginarie e vicende reali.

Die Mondlandung von Apollo 11 im Sommer 1969 aus der Sicht eines spanischen Jungen. In Andalusien dringt der Fortschritt ein und verändert das Leben. «Muñoz Molinas Diktion ist erfüllt von mediterraner Poesie, bildhaft, farbenreich und zupackend.» Die Welt

Este es un ensayo directo y apasionado, una reflexión narrativa y testimonial, al más puro estilo de los ensayos de George Orwell o de Virginia Woolf, una propuesta de acción concreta y entusiasta para avanzar desde el actual deterioro económico, político y social hacia la realidad que queremos construir. Partiendo tanto de documentos periodísticos como de la tradición literaria, Antonio Muñoz Molina escribe esgrimiendo razón y respeto, sin eludir verdades por amargas que estas sean, porque saber es el único camino para cambiar las cosas. Testigo de una época en la que aún no estaban a nuestro alcance derechos que ahora peligran, nos recuerda que nada es para siempre, que cualquier derecho puede desaparecer. Este ensayo nos convoca: «hace falta una serena rebelión cívica» y nos apremia: «hay cosas inaplazables». Todo lo que era sólido es un espejo en el que todos debemos mirarnos, no importa el lugar ideológico en el que nos movamos, dónde vivamos o nuestra condición social; una llamada para que reaccionemos, cada uno desde nuestro ámbito de actuación, y contagiemos con nuestro ejemplo una responsabilidad cívica que hemos de exigir, de manera contundente, a nuestros gobernantes.