The novel about the Spanish civil war by Antonio Muñoz Molina was translated by Edith Grossman and it is published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.

“Mr Muñoz Molina, who lives both in Madrid and New York, has mined archives to create an astonishingly vivid narrative that unfolds with hypnotic intensity by means of the constant interweaving of time and memory. He wants to pinpoint exactly how it was that Spain descended into slaughter and tragedy, and approves of George Orwell’s observation that “to see what is in front of one’s nose needs a constant struggle”. His prose, illuminated by precise observation, has been well translated (though not flawlessly) by Edith Grossman. However, the publishers have surreptitiously abridged the Spanish original. Casual checks reveal that some passages are missing, of which, surprisingly, they make no acknowledgment.”

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