El jinete polaco (Spanish Edition) [Paperback]

Antonio Munoz Molina (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: January 1, 2006

El protagonista evoca la vida en el pueblo andaluz donde nacio, a lo largo de cuatro generaciones: su bisabuelo, que estuvo en Cuba; su abuelo, guardia de asalto que acabo en un campo de concentracion; sus padres, campesinos que llevaban una vida resignada y oscura, y el mismo en su ninez y adolescencia.Historia de la guerrilla antifranquista. El maquis, movimiento mas importante de oposicion al regimen tras la guerra civil, constituye uno de los aspectos mas desconocidos de esta epoca: la guerrilla que intento debilitar el poder de Franco. La historia de hombres y mujeres que lucharon por la libertad se cuenta, entre otros, a traves de la figura de Cristino Garcia Granada, fusilado en 1946 por defender sus ideales. Secundino Serrano traza el retrato de estos combatientes cuya existencia ha sido silenciada por la historiografia oficial.

Product Details

• Paperback: 224 pages
• Publisher: Booket (January 1, 2006)
• Language: Spanish
• ISBN-10: 8432217050
• ISBN-13: 978-8432217050
• Product Dimensions: 7.3 x 4.9 x 1.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 12 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,353,390 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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14 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The Best Spanish Writer of Spanish?, February 26, 2001

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I. Tunnacliffe (UK) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: El Jinete Polaco (Spanish Edition) (Paperback)

Antonio Munoz Molina is a journalist and novelist who has come of age along with his homeland. Born in the Andalucian town of Ubeda in 1956 he was twenty years old when Franco died and Spain began its transition from the last fascist state in western Europe to the modern democracy it is today.

El Jinete Polaco is his masterwork (so far - he is still only 44) and weaves a partially autobiographical storyline around a history of the town of Magina - Ubeda by another name. The protagonist is a simultaneous translator, travelling the world from conference to conference, belonging nowhere and to no-one. The story is told in flashbacks, both to the main character's youth and to the history of the town and its people.

Munoz Molina's writing evokes the alienation of a misfit youth, the hard miserable life of the peasant olive growers of southern Spain and the torment of the civil war years in equal measure. At a time when Latin American writers in Spanish have captured the attention of the literary world, here is a Spanish Spanish writer worthy of equal attention.

Unfortunately as far as I am aware there are no English translations of Munoz Molina's work although I think I have seen him in French. Maybe the publishers of Marquez and Allende in English could look eastwards for their next star.

4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars El Jinete Polaco, August 20, 2004

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S. Lacalle "Silvia" (St. Louis, Missouri) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: El Jinete Polaco (Spanish Edition) (Paperback)

Excellent book! the amazing narrative it makes you visualize every single line. You are not reading a book, you are really "seeing" what is happening. A masterpiece!

5.0 out of 5 stars Excelente novela, October 12, 2011

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franredal (Madrid, Spain) - See all my reviews

This review is from: El jinete polaco (Spanish Edition) (Paperback)

Excelente novela, que ganó un importante premio en España. Tiene el estilo característico del autor, con una prosa trabajada, para ser leída sin prisas, y una constante introspección en los personajes de la trama. Hay en ella muchos recuerdos del propio escritor, de su familia y de su niñez y juventud. Absolutamente recomendable.