I Won't See You Die

Reunited in old age, two former lovers confront the past and what could have been in this subtle psychological novel that upends expectations—from the acclaimed author of Your Steps on the Stairs.

During their youth, Gabriel Aristu and Adriana Zuber lived a passionate love story that seemed destined to last forever. The future, however, had other plans for them. Separated for fifty years by an ocean of isolation, she trapped in the Spain of the dictatorship, he finding professional success in the United States, they meet again in the twilight of their days.

Looks, caresses, silenced desires, and old reproaches will then give way to the realization that nostalgia for that first love is also nostalgia for the person we once were. I Will Not See You Die is a novel about the power of memory and oblivion, loyalty and betrayal, the ravages of time and the obstinacy of love and its mirages.Antonio Muñoz Molina is the author of more than a dozen novels, including Sepharad, A Manuscript of Ashes, In Her Absence, and Your Steps on the Stairs (Other Press, 2025). He has been awarded the Jerusalem Prize for the Freedom of the Individual in Society and the Prince of Asturias Award, among many others. Muñoz Molina lives in Madrid and New York City.

Curtis Bauer is a poet and translator of prose and poetry from Spanish. He is the recipient of a PEN/Heim Translation Fund Grant and a Banff International Literary Translation Centre fellowship. His translation of Jeannette Clariond’s Image of Absence won the International Latino Book Award for Best Nonfiction Book Translation from Spanish to English. Bauer teaches creative writing and comparative literature at Texas Tech University.