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In Her Absence

Antonio Muñoz Molina

3.5/5 ( ratings)

"[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.

Language: English

Pages: 134

Format: Paperback

Publisher: Other Press (NY)

Release: July 17, 2007

ISBN: 1590512537

ISBN 13: 9781590512531

In Her Absence

Antonio Muñoz Molina

3.5/5 ( ratings)

"[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.

Language: English

Pages: 134

Format: Paperback

Publisher: Other Press (NY)

Release: July 17, 2007

ISBN: 1590512537

ISBN 13: 9781590512531

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