Antonio Muñoz Molina Libri

"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.

Con Gli addii , SUR inizia la pubblicazione di tutte le opere di Juan Carlos Onetti, considerato da molti «il William Faulkner sudamericano». Protagonista del romanzo è un uomo di mezz’età, un tempo grande stella del basket, e ora malato di tubercolosi, che si trasferisce in un paesino di montagna per curarsi nel sanatorio locale. L’arrivo dell’uomo, il suo esilio volontario in una villa lussuosa, l’avvicendarsi di due donne al suo fianco, stravolgono la calma polverosa della cittadina. Fra illazioni, sospetti e un colpo di scena finale, questo romanzo breve e poderoso ci regala uno dei momenti più alti della letteratura latinoamericana del Novecento. Con un saggio inedito di Mario Benedetti.

Sull'eco di 'Casablanca', Santiago Biralbo, un pianista jazz, insegue la sua 'femme fatal' Lucrecia, donna di un losco trafficante d'arte conosciuto a San Sebastian. Ma sarà solo più tardi, a Madrid, che attraverso lo struggente e sbiadito gioco della memoria si potranno ricomporre le tessere della storia: la passione di Biralbo, le fughe di Lucrecia, le tournée del trombettista Billy Swann, la luce impressionista di una tela di Cézanne, le note ubriache e fumose di una musica lontana appese come palloncini sbiaditi su un lungomare d'inverno, un inverno a Lisbona.

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.