El protagonista evoca la vida en el pueblo andaluz donde nacio, a lo largo de cuatro generaciones: su bisabuelo, que estuvo en Cuba; su abuelo, guardia de asalto que acabo en un campo de concentracion; sus padres, campesinos que llevaban una vida resignada y oscura, y el mismo en su ninez y adolescencia.Historia de la guerrilla antifranquista. El maquis, movimiento mas importante de oposicion al regimen tras la guerra civil, constituye uno de los aspectos mas desconocidos de esta epoca: la guerrilla que intento debilitar el poder de Franco. La historia de hombres y mujeres que lucharon por la libertad se cuenta, entre otros, a traves de la figura de Cristino Garcia Granada, fusilado en 1946 por defender sus ideales. Secundino Serrano traza el retrato de estos combatientes cuya existencia ha sido silenciada por la historiografia oficial.

Marcelo shares a secret story with a stranger, Claudio, as they await different flights at an airport, but when Claudio arrives in Buenos Aires, he soon discovers the limits between reality and fantasy at a hotel--the same hotel where Marcelo's secret story took place.

Alternating between his daytime persona as a dutiful, bureaucratic employee and his nighttime existence as his beautiful wife's impassioned lover, Mario patiently indulges his wife's avant-garde tastes in spite of his own preferences, until a strange and ominous threat begins to weigh on their marriage. Original.

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Product Description: Desde la ventana de la habitacion de un hotel, frente al iluminado campanario que siglos atras fuera alminar, Antonio Munoz Molina nos asoma a una Cordoba a lomos de las monturas musulmanas que traspasaron las murallas.

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When Darman, an assassin of legendary skill who works for a communist group, slips into Madrid to kill a suspected traitor, he meets the mysterious Rebeca in a nightclub, and she provides him with information and hides him while he makes his escape.

In a work that combines fiction with memoir, the Spanish novelist presents his encounters with the many sides of New York City and its people.

Product Description: En esta novela envolvente, Antonio Muñoz Molina nos brinda un fabuloso relato del paso de las generaciones y de un hombre que busca comprender cómo llegó a ser quien Un traductor simultáneo que viaja de ciudad en ciudad le cuenta su vida a una mujer, evocando en su relato las voces de los habitantes de Mágina, su pueblo natal...read more

Product Description: 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, Muñoz 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 Nazi concentration camp; from a shoemaker and a nun who become lovers in a small town in Spain to Primo Levi bound for Auschwitz...read more

When Santiago Biralbo, a piano player, falls in love with Lucrecia, a married woman, both face persecution from her husband, Bruce Malcolm, and from Toussaints Morton, a patron of an extreme right-wing organization.

Recounts the author's experiences doing his compulsory military service in the Basque provinces in 1979, when Franco's portrait still hung in the barracks and the Spanish army was much as it had been when the general was alive