Sepharad

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Publication Year:
2008

ISBN-13: 9780547544779

<DIV><B>An &ldquo;amazing&rdquo; novel about the diaspora of Sephardic Jews amid the tumult of twentieth century history (<I>The Washington Post Book World</I>).</B><BR /><BR /> From one of Spain&rsquo;s most celebrated writers, this extraordinary blend of fiction, history, and memoir tells the story of the Sephardic diaspora through seventeen interlinked chapters.<BR /> &#160;<BR /> &ldquo;If Balzac wrote <I>The Human Comedy</I>, [Antonio] Mu&ntilde;oz Molina has written the adventure of exile, solitude, and memory,&rdquo; Arturo P&eacute;rez-Reverte observed of this &ldquo;masterpiece&rdquo; that shifts seamlessly from the past to the present along the escape routes employed by Sephardic Jews across countries and continents as they fled Hitler&rsquo;s Holocaust and Stalin&rsquo;s purges in the mid-twentieth century (<I>The New York Review of Books</I>).<BR /> &#160;<BR /> In a remarkable display of narrative dexterity, Mu&ntilde;oz Molina fashions a &ldquo;rich and complex story&rdquo; out of the experiences of people both real and imagined: Eugenia Ginzburg and Greta Buber-Neumann, one on a train to the gulag, the other heading toward a Nazi concentration camp; a shoemaker and a nun who become lovers in a small Spanish town; and Primo Levi, bound for Auschwitz (<I>Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel</I>). From the well-known to the virtually unknown, all of Mu&ntilde;oz Molina&rsquo;s characters are voices of separation, nostalgia, love, and endless waiting.<BR /> &#160;<BR /> &ldquo;Stories that vibrate beneath the burden of history, that lift with the breath of human life.&rdquo; &mdash;<I>Los Angeles Times Book Review</I><BR /> &#160;<BR /> &ldquo;A magnificent novel about the iniquity and horror of fanaticism, and especially the human being&rsquo;s indestructible spirit.&rdquo; &mdash;Mario Vargas Llosa<BR /> &#160;<BR /> &ldquo;Moving and often astonishing.&rdquo; &mdash;<I>The New York Times</I></DIV>