{"title":"Books by Antonio Munoz Molina","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"9781788161954","title":"To Walk Alone in the Crowd","description":"Winner of the 2020 Prix Médicis etrangerI want to live on foot, by hand, by pencil, at ease, responsive to whatever I meet, loose like the air that moves around my body as I walk or like a graceful swimming stroke. I want to remain astonished.Join Antonio Muñoz Molina for a walk through Madrid, Paris, London and New York, where the past and the present live side by side in the literature of newspaper headlines, billboards, casual glances and overheard conversation. This is the digital metropolis, captured in notebooks, recorded on the iPhone, where Edgar Allan Poe, Herman Melville, Charles Baudelaire, Thomas de Quincey, Fernando Pessoa and Walter Benjamin step beside us, all of us writing the unfinished poem of the crowded city.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43205560434866,"sku":"9781788161954","price":9.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781788161954_1cc9456e-5a9e-406e-9b58-36b4f68ef795.jpg?v=1786026950"},{"product_id":"9781635424348","title":"Your Steps on the Stairs","description":"\u003cb\u003eA Best Book of the Year by NPR and \u003ci\u003eTimes Literary Supplement\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003eA Notable Book of the Year by the \u003ci\u003eWashington Post\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA Best Thriller of the Month by the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA Best Thriller of the Year by \u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003eLonglisted for the PEN Translation Prize\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA couple’s new life in Lisbon unravels in this heady and unsettling psychological thriller from one of Spain’s most celebrated writers.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA man travels to Lisbon ahead of his wife to prepare their new home, while she stays in New York to oversee a research project on the neuroscience of memory and fear. Leaving behind a phase of their relationship indelibly marked by 9\/11, the man revels in the Portuguese capital’s temperate weather and the neighborhood’s calmness, meticulously planning the details of their future.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eYet beneath the peace and quiet of this routine, he feels a growing unease he can’t explain. Is it the similarity between the two cities, and the two apartments? A mysterious threat waiting in the wings?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA brilliant, deceptively simple novel of psychological suspense, \u003ci\u003eYour Steps on the Stairs \u003c\/i\u003eexplores how our emotions and memories shape our perception of reality. 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Crossing the fragile borders of Europe, he reflects on months of fratricidal conflict in his embattled country, his own transformation from a bricklayer's son to a respected bourgeois husband and professional, and the all-consuming love affair with an American woman that forever alters his life.A rich, panoramic portrait of Spain on the brink of civil war, In the Night of Time details the passions and tragedies of a country tearing itself apart. 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