The internationally bestselling historical tour de force of love and tragedy in the Spanish Civil War
Antonio Mu.oz Molina is the author of more than a dozen novels, among them Sepharad, A Manuscript of Ashes and In Her Absence. He is the recipient of the Jerusalem Prize, the Prince of Asturias Prize, the Planeta Prize and many others. He lives in Madrid and New York.
An immense, luminous panorama of the Spanish Civil War ... one of
the many wonders of this novel is how Molina integrates the
personal so closely with the political ... in the fine tradition of
novels of everything, reaching back to Cervantes by way of Bellow
and Hemingway ... He brings an encyclopedic knowledge of the times
to bear in a way that never drags on the narrative ... In a novel
so concerned with the flow of memory and time, it seems fitting
that the final chapters are set on the banks of the Hudson River,
where Ignacio has been commissioned to design a library. This novel
feels as vast as a library, and as compellingly seductive as a
river
*Independent*
exhilarating...exceptional... This is a necessary novel. Edith
Grossman's translation compellingly captures its depiction of the
ugliness of war and the remorselessness of human memory when many
in Spain, nearly eight decades on, would like to consign the civil
war to oblivion.
*Financial Times*
Sweeping, magisterial ... an astonishingly vivid narrative that
unfolds with hypnotic intensity by means of the constant
interweaving of time and memory ... Tolstoyan in its scale,
emotional intensity and intellectual honesty.
*Economist*
An epic...Molina's cogent examination of war on a scale both large
and small reaffirms his place as a giant of Europe's literary
scene, well-worth being discovered by American readers
*The Daily Beast*
Spellbinding ... what distinguishes In the Night of Time - what
makes it eye-openingly new - is its meticulous reconstruction of
Spain in 1936, its attention to detail, its fusion of history and
imagination, its tension between love's surrender and war's stiff
resolve. Let me put it this way: Antonio Muñoz Molina's novel is
one of the most eloquent monuments to the Spanish Civil War ever to
be raised in fiction.
*Washington Post*
What is remarkable about the book...is how much Munoz Molina
manages to say about the world itself and how hypnotic his
narrative becomes as he slows down time...Munoz Molina offers a
force and a rare pity to the documentary evidence by his skill at
orchestrating, playing tones and rhythms against each other...he
approaches character with even greater tenderness, allowing for
every type of weakness
*New York Review of Books*
Superb...A simple love story at one level, a broad portrait of a
nation in flames at another, and a masterwork through and
through
*Kirkus (starred review)*
Epic...In the Night of Time gives its subject the space it deserves
and renders it vibrantly with intoxicating prose.
*Entertainment Weekly*
A War and Peace for the Spanish Civil War
*Publishers Weekly*
A large rough-cut gem of a story that lingers in one's mind.
[Molina] appears to be finally getting the international attention
he deserves
*Booklist (starred review)*
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