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PublisherHoughton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company

ISBN-100151009015

ISBN-139780151009015

eBay Product ID (ePID)2485740

Product Key Features

Book TitleSepharad

Number of Pages400 Pages

LanguageEnglish

TopicLiterary, Historical

Publication Year2003

GenreFiction

AuthorAntonio Muñoz Molina

FormatHardcover

Dimensions

Item Height1.5 in

Item Weight22.2 Oz

Item Length7.5 in

Item Width6 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceTrade

LCCN2003-005538

Dewey Edition21

ReviewsPRAISE FOR SEPHARAD "A magnificent novel about the iniquity and horror of fanaticism, and especially the human being's indestructible spirit."-Mario Vargas Llosa "If Balzac wrote The Human Comedy, Mu oz Molina has written the adventure of exile, solitude, and memory."-Arturo P rez-Reverte, One might argue against such a literary appropriation of the Holocaust, yet Munoz Molina's urgent desire to bear witness to it, even though at a remove, and his very sensitive ability to evoke the humiliations of its victims makes Sepharad an amazing book. The Margaret Sayers Peden translation is excellent. Read it., PRAISE FOR SEPHARAD "Moving and often astonishing."--Richard Eder, The New York Times "An amazing book. The Margaret Sayers Peden translation is excellent. Read it."-- The Washington Post Book World, Elegiacally beautiful...Calling on such inspiring figures as Franz Kafka and Primo Levi for guidance. Munoz Molina creates astute, deeply felt, and exquisitely expressive testimony to love, suffering, and the astonishing fecundity of human consciousness., This book is no boneless ''meditation''; it has all the onward rush and effortfulness of an epic, and it''s studded with the terrible stories you hear from acquaintances in ''the insomniac world of travelers.'', Munoz Molina writes the novels of the people he''s met and imagined, gleaning from the names he encounters stories that vibrate beneath the burden of history, that lift with the breath of human life., PRAISE FOR SEPHARAD "Moving and often astonishing."-Richard Eder, The New York Times "An amazing book. The Margaret Sayers Peden translation is excellent. Read it."- The Washington Post Book World, This is the land of the marked, the fated, the terminally ill, and we should be grateful that Munoz Molina is our brave guide in this world., Now that American readers have the opportunity to encounter Molina, we may want to adopt him as our own...Together his sketches comprise a harrowing sketch of private life in the 20th century., PRAISE FOR SEPHARAD "A magnificent novel about the iniquity and horror of fanaticism, and especially the human being's indestructible spirit."-Mario Vargas Llosa "If Balzac wrote The Human Comedy, Muoz Molina has written the adventure of exile, solitude, and memory."-Arturo Prez-Reverte, PRAISE FOR SEPHARAD "A magnificent novel about the iniquity and horror of fanaticism, and especially the human being's indestructible spirit."-Mario Vargas Llosa "If Balzac wrote The Human Comedy, MuÑoz Molina has written the adventure of exile, solitude, and memory."-Arturo PÉrez-Reverte, Munoz Molina writes the novels of the people he's met and imagined, gleaning from the names he encounters stories that vibrate beneath the burden of history, that lift with the breath of human life., Obsessive in its detail, inspiring in its scope and monumental in its ambitions...smart and insightful...intellectually demanding..., One might argue against such a literary appropriation of the Holocaust, yet Munoz Molina''s urgent desire to bear witness to it, even though at a remove, and his very sensitive ability to evoke the humiliations of its victims makes Sepharad an amazing book. The Margaret Sayers Peden translation is excellent. Read it., Will intrigue and enthrall determined readers willing to let this thoughtful writer lead them through history into the hearts of exiles at home and abroad., This book is no boneless 'meditation'; it has all the onward rush and effortfulness of an epic, and it's studded with the terrible stories you hear from acquaintances in 'the insomniac world of travelers.'

Dewey Decimal863/.64

Table Of ContentSacristan Copenhagen Those Who Wait Silencing Everything ValdemÚn Oh You, Who Knew So Well MÜnzenberg Olympia Berghof CerbÈre Wherever The Man Goes Scheherazade America You Are... Narva Tell Me Your Name Sepharad

SynopsisFrom 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. And others-some well known, others unknown-all voicesof 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., 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 c& from a shoemaker and a nun who become lovers in a small town in Spain to Primo Levi bound for Auschwitz. And others-some well known, others unknown-all 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.

LC Classification NumberPQ6663.U4795S4413