In Her Absence
Antonio Munoz Molina$12.71
$14.95
" A] translucent novel of passion, illusion and social class....slyly witty and luminous."
--Francine Prose in O, The Oprah Magazine During working hours, Mario is a dutiful bureaucrat, scrupulously earning his paycheck as an employee of the provincial Spanish town where he lives. But when he walks through the door of his apartment, he is transformed into the impassioned lover of Blanca, the beautiful, inscrutable wife he saved from the brink of personal crisis. For the love of Blanca, Mario eats sushi and carpaccio, nods in feigned understanding at experimental films, sits patiently through long conversations with her avant-garde friends, and conceals his disgust at shocking art exhibits. Then, little by little, a strange and ominous threat begins to weigh on the marriage. How can love survive its own disappearance? The desperate answer that Antonio Mu oz Molina proposes in this short, circular novella is a model of literary strategy and style, a splendid homage to Flaubert.
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Other Press (NY)
Published: 07/17/2007
ISBN: 9781590512531
Pages: 134
Weight: 0.38lbs
Size: 7.66h x 5.58w x 0.45d
Review Citations: Publishers Weekly 04/16/2007 pg. 28
Kirkus Reviews 05/01/2007 pg. 414
Library Journal 07/01/2007 pg. 81
Entertainment Weekly 07/20/2007 pg. 79
Foreword 07/01/2007 pg. 75
New Yorker (The) 09/17/2007 pg. 99
--Francine Prose in O, The Oprah Magazine During working hours, Mario is a dutiful bureaucrat, scrupulously earning his paycheck as an employee of the provincial Spanish town where he lives. But when he walks through the door of his apartment, he is transformed into the impassioned lover of Blanca, the beautiful, inscrutable wife he saved from the brink of personal crisis. For the love of Blanca, Mario eats sushi and carpaccio, nods in feigned understanding at experimental films, sits patiently through long conversations with her avant-garde friends, and conceals his disgust at shocking art exhibits. Then, little by little, a strange and ominous threat begins to weigh on the marriage. How can love survive its own disappearance? The desperate answer that Antonio Mu oz Molina proposes in this short, circular novella is a model of literary strategy and style, a splendid homage to Flaubert.
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Other Press (NY)
Published: 07/17/2007
ISBN: 9781590512531
Pages: 134
Weight: 0.38lbs
Size: 7.66h x 5.58w x 0.45d
Review Citations: Publishers Weekly 04/16/2007 pg. 28
Kirkus Reviews 05/01/2007 pg. 414
Library Journal 07/01/2007 pg. 81
Entertainment Weekly 07/20/2007 pg. 79
Foreword 07/01/2007 pg. 75
New Yorker (The) 09/17/2007 pg. 99