{"product_id":"in-the-night-of-time-isbn-9780547547848","title":"In The Night Of Time","description":"October 1936. Spanish architect Ignacio Abel arrives at Penn Station, the final stop on his journey from war-torn Madrid, where he has left behind his wife and children, abandoning them to uncertainty. 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWinner of the 2012 Prix Méditerranée Étranger and hailed as a masterpiece, \u003cem\u003eIn the Night of Time\u003c\/em\u003e is a sweeping, grand novel and an indelible portrait of a shattered society, written by one of Spain’s most important contemporary novelists. | \u003cp\u003e\"Spellbinding…What distinguishes \u003cem\u003eIn the Night of Time\u003c\/em\u003e—what makes it eye-openingly new—is its meticulous reconstruction of Spain in 1936, its attention to detail, its fusion of history and imagination, its tension between love’s surrender and war’s stiff resolve. Let me put it this way: Antonio Muñoz Molina’s novel is one of the most eloquent monuments to the Spanish Civil War ever to be raised in fiction.\" —Marie Arana, \u003cem\u003eWashington Post\u003c\/em\u003e   \"Labyrinthine and spellbinding…one of the most eloquent monuments to the Spanish Civil War ever to be raised in fiction.\" --\u003cem\u003eThe Washington Post,\u003c\/em\u003e Best Fiction Books of 2014 \"A vast, architectural novel.\" —NPR.org   \"Sweeping, magisterial...An astonishingly vivid narrative that unfolds with hypnotic intensity by means of the constant interweaving of time and memory...\u003cem\u003eIn the Night of Time\u003c\/em\u003e is Tolstoyan in its scale, emotional intensity and intellectual honesty.\" —\u003cem\u003eThe Economist\u003c\/em\u003e   \"What is remarkable about the book, despite the emphasis on the private and the shadowy, is how much Muñoz Molina manages to say about the world itself and how hypnotic his narrative becomes as he slows down time...He can have his protagonist contemplate his own past in slow and searching tones; he can have him consider his lover's body with mesmeric grace; he can have him ponder his need to escape with urgency; he can have him consider architecture with originality...Muñoz Molina, in all his fiction, has a sense of the past as a living force, darting, shifting, haunting, impossible to pin down...In \u003cem\u003eIn the Night of Time \u003c\/em\u003ehe brings this perception further, allowing the most private inner moments to have greater importance than the war outside, and he approaches character with even greater tenderness, allowing for every type of weakness.\" —Colm Toibin, \u003cem\u003eNew York Review of Books\u003c\/em\u003e  \"An epic…Molina’s cogent examination of war on a scale both large and small reaffirms his place as a giant of Europe’s literary scene, well-worth being discovered by American readers.\" —\u003cem\u003eThe Daily Beast\u003c\/em\u003e  \"A story of love, violence, and politics…[\u003cem\u003eIn the Night of Time\u003c\/em\u003e] echoes Molina’s earlier works, including the much-praised \u003cem\u003eA Manuscript of Ashes\u003c\/em\u003e.\" —\u003cem\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/em\u003e  \"Epic…\u003cem\u003eIn the Night of Time\u003c\/em\u003e gives its subject the space it deserves and renders it vibrantly with intoxicating prose.\" \u003cem\u003e—Entertainment Weekly\u003c\/em\u003e  \"A fascinating read.\" —\u003cem\u003eTypographical Era\u003c\/em\u003e  \"A sweeping, mesmerizing tale that weaves seamlessly between Spain and America, present and past, personal and political.\" —Bustle.com  \"Superb…A simple love story at one level, a broad portrait of a nation in flames at another, and a masterwork through and through.\" —\u003cem\u003eKirkus\u003c\/em\u003e (starred review)  \"A \u003cem\u003eWar and Peace\u003c\/em\u003e for the Spanish Civil War, this classically sweeping novel from Molina (\u003cem\u003eA Manuscript of Ashes\u003c\/em\u003e) follows a large cast of characters, intermingling real and fictional figures, through times of both peaceful routine and grotesque violence.\" —\u003cem\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/em\u003e  \"A large rough-cut gem of a story that lingers in one’s mind. [Molina] appears to be finally getting the international attention he deserves.\" —\u003cem\u003eBooklist\u003c\/em\u003e (starred review)   “Antonio Munoz Molina's \u003cem\u003eIn The Night of Time\u003c\/em\u003e is a sweeping love story enveloped by the horrors of the Spanish Civil War…In this monumental book, Molina has described with brutal honesty the atrocities committed on both sides of the war.” – \u003cem\u003eCharleston Post and Courier\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"HarperVia","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44890143654117,"sku":"NP9780547547848","price":30.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780547547848.jpg?v=1730232624","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/in-the-night-of-time-isbn-9780547547848","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}