by Antonio Muñoz Molina · Serpent's Tail · tapa blanda · ISBN 9781781255094
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«In the Night of Time» is the historical novel by Antonio Muñoz Molina, published by Serpent's Tail in paperback (656 pages, in English).
October 1936: Spanish architect Ignacio Abel arrives at Penn Station in New York after fleeing a Spain on the brink of civil war, where he has left his family. During the journey he recalls his rise from a bricklayer's son to a bourgeois professional and the tormenting affair with an American woman that changed his life, in a narrative that intertwines the personal with the country's political upheaval.
English translation by Edith Grossman. The original title of the work is «La noche de los tiempos», published in 2009.
For readers of historical and literary fiction interested in the Spanish Civil War, with a period portrait set in 1936.
Antonio Muñoz Molina is a Spanish writer, a full member of the Royal Spanish Academy since 8 June 1995. He received the 1991 Premio Planeta, the 2013 Jerusalem Prize, and the 2013 Prince of Asturias Award for literature.
