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The Impostor

A True Story

By: Javier Cercas

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MAN BOOKER PRIZE NOMINEE • From the acclaimed author of Outlaws • For decades, Enric Marco was revered as a veteran of the Spanish Civil War, a crusader for justice, and a Holocaust survivor. But in May 2005, at the height of his renown, he was exposed as a fraud. Marco was never in a Nazi concentration camp. And perhaps the rest of his past was fabricated, too, a combination of his delusions of grandeur and his compulsive lying. In this hypnotic narrative, which combines fiction and nonfiction, detective story and war story, biography and autobiography, Javier Cercas sets out to unravel Marco’s enigma. With both profound compassion and lacerating honesty, Cercas probes one man’s gigantic lie to explore the deepest, most flawed parts of our humanity.

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1524732826

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9781524732820

The Tenant and The Motive

By: Javier Cercas

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The Tenant and The Motive

By: Javier Cercas

The Tenant and The Motive are two darkly humorous novellas from the award-winning author of Soldiers of Salamis. The Tenant is the mischievous story of Mario Rota, a linguistics professor whose life starts to unravel after he twists his ankle while out jogging one day. A rival professor appears, takes over his classes and bewitches his girlfriend. Where will Rota's nightmare end - and where did it begin? The Motive is a satire about a writer, Álvaro, who becomes obsessed with finding the ideal inspiration for his novel. First he begins spying on his neighbours, then he starts leading them on, creating a reversal of the maxim that art follows life - with some dire consequences. Written with a supremely light touch, these witty novellas are enjoyable masterpieces that linger long in the memory.

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1408834731

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Lord of All the Dead

A Nonfiction Novel

By: Javier Cercas

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Lord of All the Dead

A Nonfiction Novel

By: Javier Cercas

From the internationally renowned author of The Impostor, a courageous journey into his own family history and that of a country collapsing from a fratricidal war--his most moving, most personal book, one he has spent his entire life preparing to write. Javier Cercas grew up hearing the legend of his adored great-uncle Manuel Mena, who died at nineteen in the bloodiest battle of the Spanish Civil War--while fighting for Franco's army. Who was this young man? A fascist hero whose memory is an embarrassment or a committed idealist who happened to fall on the wrong side of history? Is it possible to be a moral person defending an immoral cause? Through visits back to his parents' village in southern Spain, interviews with survivors, and research into the murkiest corners of the war, the author pieces together the life of this enigmatic figure and of an entire generation. This sui generis work combines intimate family history, investigative scholarship, personal confession, war stories, and road trips, finally becoming a transcendent portrait of a country's indelible scars--a book about heroism, death, the persistence of the past, and the meaning of an individual life against the tapestry of history.

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Knopf

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0525520902

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The Speed of Light

By: Javier Cercas

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The Speed of Light

By: Javier Cercas

_______________ 'Cercas's writing has echoes of Scott Fitzgerald in the intense, shining clarity of its emotion, and of Faulkner' - Independent 'A deeply affecting novel. A reflection on war, friendship, success and failure ... Cercas's novel carries a powerful warning for the war-hungry modern world' - Scotland on Sunday 'Presents his narrator's foibles in a lucid, supple prose, well-matched to the novel's darker elements' - Financial Times _______________ A sweeping story of youth and age, war and peace, love, friendship and the quest for meaning An aspiring young writer from Spain begins work as a teaching assistant on a Midwestern campus and finds himself sharing an office with Rodney Falk, a taciturn Vietnam veteran of strange ways and few friends. But when Rodney suddenly disappears the narrator becomes obsessed with discovering the secrets of his past. Why do people fear Rodney? What traumatic event happened at My Khe during the war? And, when the narrator's life takes a terrible twist, is Rodney the only person in the world who can save him?

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1408807181

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9781408807187

The Anatomy of a Moment

By: Javier Cercas

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The Anatomy of a Moment

By: Javier Cercas

In February 1981, just as Spain was finally leaving Franco's dictatorship and during the first democratic vote in parliament for a new prime minister - Colonel Tejero and a band of right-wing soldiers burst into the Spanish parliament and began firing shots. Only three members of Congress defied the incursion and did not dive for cover- Adolfo Suarez the then outgoing prime minister, who had steered the country away from the Franco era, Guttierez Mellado, a conservative general who had loyally served democracy, and Santiago Carillo, the head of the Communist Party, which had just been legalised. In The Anatomy of a Moment, Cercas examines a key moment in Spanish history, just as he did so successfully in his Spanish Civil War novel, Soldiers of Salamis. This is the only coup ever to have been caught on film as it was happening, which, as Cercas says, 'guaranteed both its reality and its unreality'. Every February a few seconds of the video are shown again and Spaniards congratulate themselves for standing up for democracy, but Cercas says that things were very quiet that afternoon and evening while all over Spain people stayed inside waiting for the coup to be defeated .... or to triumph.

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Bloomsbury UK

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140880560X

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Soldiers of Salamis

By: Javier Cercas

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Soldiers of Salamis

By: Javier Cercas

INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER • A novel of the Spanish Civil War, a modern classic, and a searing exploration of the unknowability of history, by the acclaimed author of Outlaws In the waning days of the Spanish Civil War, an unknown militiaman discovered a Nationalist prisoner who had fled a firing squad and taken refuge in the forest. But instead of killing him, the soldier simply turned and walked away. The prisoner, Rafael Sánchez Mazas—writer, fascist, and founder of the Spanish Falange—went on to become a national hero and ultimately a minister in Franco's first government. The soldier disappeared into history. Sixty years later, Javier Cercas—or at least, a character who shares his name—sifts through the evidence to establish what really happened that day. Who was the soldier? Why didn't he shoot? And who was the true hero in the story? Every answer yields another question in this powerful and elegantly constructed novel about truth, memory, and war.

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Vintage

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1984899899

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The Anatomy of a Moment

Thirty-five Minutes in History and Imagination

By: Javier Cercas

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The Anatomy of a Moment

Thirty-five Minutes in History and Imagination

By: Javier Cercas

In February 1981, Spain was still emerging from Franco's shadow, holding a democratic vote for the new prime minister. On the day of the vote in Parliament, while the session was being filmed by TV cameras, a band of right-wing soldiers burst in with automatic weapons, ordering everyone to get down. Only three men defied the order. For thirty-five minutes, as the cameras rolled, they stayed in their seats. Critically adored novelist Javier Cercas originally set out to write a novel about this pivotal moment, but determined it had already gained an air of myth, or, through the annual broadcast of video clips, had at least acquired the fictional taint of reality television. Cercas turned to nonfiction, and his vivid descriptions of the archival footage frame a narrative that traverses the line between history and art, creating a daring new account of this watershed moment in modern Spanish history. The Anatomy of a Moment caused a sensation upon its publication in Spain, selling hundreds of thousands of copies. The story will be new to many American readers, but the book stands resolutely on its own as a compelling literary inquest of national myth, personal memory, political spectacle, and reality itself.

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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1608195937

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9781608195930

Outlaws

A Novel

By: Javier Cercas

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Outlaws

A Novel

By: Javier Cercas

On a summer day at the arcade, timid sixteen-year-old Ignacio Cañas encounters two charismatic rebels: El Zarco (“Blue Eyes”) and his gorgeous girl, Tere. Entranced, he crosses the border into their dangerous world, becoming their partner in crimes that quickly escalate. Twenty-five years later, Tere materializes in Cañas's office, needing help. Cañas has settled back into middle-class life, becoming a successful defense lawyer. Zarco has matured into a convict of some infamy. Yet somehow, with new stakes, this three-way affair will begin again. With his usual brio, Javier Cercas surveys the borders between right and wrong, respectability and criminality, and to what extent we can pass between them-or determine on which side we ultimately fall. This brilliantly plotted tale firmly establishes him as one of the most rewarding novelists writing today.

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1620403269

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Even the Darkest Night

A Terra Alta Novel

By: Javier Cercas

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Even the Darkest Night

A Terra Alta Novel

By: Javier Cercas

INTERNATIONAL BEST SELLER • WINNER OF SPAIN’S BIGGEST LITERARY PRIZE • Barcelona detective Melchor Marín is sent to the countryside to investigate a horrific double murder. Before long, it becomes clear that nothing about the case is quite as it seems in this “sweeping romantic novel in the form of a police procedural” (Wall Street Journal). The first book in the internationally acclaimed series: Melchor, the son of a prostitute, went to prison as a teenager, convicted of working for a Colombian drug cartel. Behind bars, he read a book that changed his life: Les Misérables. Then his mother was murdered. He decided to become a cop. This new case, in Terra Alta, a remote region of rural Catalonia—the murder of a wealthy local man and his wife—will turn Melchor’s life upside down yet again. Even the Darkest Night is a thought-provoking, elegantly constructed thriller about justice, revenge, and, above all, the struggles of a righteous man trying to find his place in a corrupt world.

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0593318803

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9780593318805

The Impostor

A True Story

By: Javier Cercas

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The Impostor

A True Story

By: Javier Cercas

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0525434232

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The vision and the path

By: Javier Cercas

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The vision and the path

By: Javier Cercas

What is Europe? A continent fragmented through the centuries by wars, border conflicts and cultural diversity. As Europeans, we do not have a common language or a common history, but we do have common roots, needs and ambitions. These similarities led us to fulfil what at the end of the Second World War could have been called a "reasonable utopia" — the European Union. The Spanish writer Javier Cercas investigates Europe and Europeans, our past, the conflicts, the ideologies and the people who forged Europe as we know it today. Though no final answer to all the questions can be found, the conclusion seems inevitable: Europe will be unified, naturally, sooner or later, despite all the hostility. This is the eleventh essay in the Big Ideas series created by the European Investment Bank. The EIB has invited international thought leaders to write about the most important issues of the day. These essays are a reminder that we need new thinking to protect the environment, promote equality and improve people's lives around the globe.

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The Tenant and The Motive

By: Javier Cercas

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The Tenant and The Motive

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1408834731

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Lord of All the Dead

A nonfiction novel

By: Javier Cercas

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Lord of All the Dead

A nonfiction novel

By: Javier Cercas

A deeply personal work of historical interrogation from the acclaimed author of Outlaws. Javier Cercas, “the bard of [the] movement for the recovery of Spain’s suppressed memory” (The New York Times Book Review), unpacks the legacy of the Spanish Civil War by way of his own family’s history. Growing up, Cercas was inculcated with the legend of his beloved great-uncle, Manuel Mena, who died at nineteen in the bloodiest battle of the Spanish Civil War—while fighting for Franco. Who was this young man? A fascist hero whose memory is now an embarrassment or a committed idealist who happened to fall on the wrong side of history? In Lord of All the Dead, Cercas pieces together the life of his enigmatic relative and in so doing tells the story of an entire generation. Combining intimate family history, investigative scholarship, personal confession, and a novelist’s imagination, Cercas has crafted a transcendent portrait of a country’s indelible scars, a book about heroism, death, the persistence of the past, and the meaning of an individual life against the tapestry of history.

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0525520910

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Even the Darkest Night

A Terra Alta Investigation

By: Javier Cercas

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Even the Darkest Night

A Terra Alta Investigation

By: Javier Cercas

A Melchor Marín novel. Winner of Spain's biggest literary prize - the Premio Planeta When Melchor goes to investigate the horrific double-murder of a rich printer and his wife in rural Cataluña nothing quite adds up. The young cop from the big city, hero of a foiled terrorist attack, has been sent to Terra Alta till things quieten down. Observant, streetwise and circumspect, Melchor is also an outsider. The son of a Barcelona prostitute who never knew his father, Melchor rapidly fell into trouble and was jailed at 19, convicted of driving for a Colombian drug cartel. While he was behind bars, he read Hugo's Les Misérables, and then his mother was murdered. Admiring of both Jean Valjean and Javert - but mostly the relentless Javert - he decided to become a policeman. Now he is out for revenge, but he can wait, and meanwhile he has discovered happiness with his wife, the local librarian, and their daughter, who is, of course, called Cossette. Slowly at first, and then more rapidly once ordered to abandon the case, he tracks the clues that will reveal the larger truth behind what appears at first to be a cold-blooded, professional killing. Translated from the Spanish by Anne McLean

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Hachette UK

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1529410037

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Outlaws

By: Javier Cercas

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Outlaws

By: Javier Cercas

In the late 1970s, as Spain was adrift between the death of Franco and the rebirth of democracy, people were moving from the poor south to the cities of the north in search of a better life. But the work, when there was any, was poorly paid and the housing squalid. Out of this world of limited opportunities a generation of delinquents arose whose prospects were stifled and whose rebellion would be brief and violent... One summer's day in Gerona a bespectacled, sixteen-year-old Ignacio Ca�as, known to his few friends as Gafitas, is working in an amusement arcade, when a charismatic teenager walks in with the most beautiful girl Ca�as has ever seen. Zarco and Tere take over his pinball machine and his life. Thirty years on and now a successful criminal defence lawyer, Ca�as has tried to put that long, hot summer of drugs, yearning and delinquency behind him. But when Tere appears in his office and asks him to represent El Zarco, who has been in prison all this time, what else can Gafitas do but accept. A powerful novel of love and hate, of loyalty and betrayal, of true integrity and the prison celebrity can become, Outlaws confirms Javier Cercas as one of the most thrilling novelists writing anywhere in the world today.

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1408850451

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These Demons Are Intolerable!

By: Javier Gomez

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These Demons Are Intolerable!

By: Javier Gomez

This manuscript was written from the heart to allow me to dream, free of memories mixed with my fantasies, which confused me in understanding what was real or a dream. I am now at peace knowing I am more confused because I am dreaming excessively more.

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Xlibris Corporation

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1514421828

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Enciclopedia de Lingüística Hispánica

By: Javier Gutiérrez-Rexach

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Enciclopedia de Lingüística Hispánica

By: Javier Gutiérrez-Rexach

The Enciclopedia de Linguistica Hispánica provides comprehensive coverage of the major and subsidiary fields of Spanish linguistics. Entries are extensively cross-referenced and arranged alphabetically within three main sections: Part 1 covers linguistic disciplines, approaches and methodologies. Part 2 brings together the grammar of Spanish, including subsections on phonology, morphology, syntax and semantics. Part 3 brings together the historical, social and geographical factors in the evolution of Spanish. Drawing on the expertise of a wide range of contributors from across the Spanish-speaking world the Enciclopedia de Linguistica Hispánica is an indispensable reference for undergraduate and postgraduate students of Spanish, and for anyone with an academic or professional interest in the Spanish language/Spanish linguistics.

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Routledge

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1317498011

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9781317498018

The Speed of Light

By: Javier Cercas

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The Speed of Light

By: Javier Cercas

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1408807181

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The vision and the path

By: Javier Cercas

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By: Javier Cercas

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No callar

Ensayos y artículos. 2000-2022

By: Javier Cercas

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No callar

Ensayos y artículos. 2000-2022

By: Javier Cercas

Los textos más lúcidos y brillantes de un escritor de talla internacional, por fin reunidos en un volumen de lectura compulsiva. «El gran escritor español.», Garth Risk Hallberg, The New York Times «El mayor escritor vivo.», Aldo Cazullo, Il Corriere della Sera «Tengo a Javier Cercas por uno de los mejores escritores de nuestra lengua.» Mario Vargas Llosa, El País Este volumen reúne una apasionante selección de los mejores textos publicados en las últimas dos décadas por Javier Cercas, ahora mismo uno de los escritores europeos más relevantes. En ellos se abordan algunos temas capitales de nuestro tiempo, como el auge del nacionalpopulismo, la crisis de la democracia liberal o el descrédito de la verdad, así como sus reverberaciones en España, desde el secesionismo catalán o la llamada nueva política hasta la relectura o la falsifi cación de la Guerra Civil, el franquismo y la Transición. Pero aquí se encontrarán también lúcidas y apasionadas reivindicaciones del poderío de la literatura (o del arte en general), retratos inolvidables de escritores, personajes históricos, cineastas, músicos o deportistas, emocionantes fragmentos de memoria personal y colectiva preñados a partes iguales de melancolía y de un humor descacharrante. El resultado es un libro absorbente, imprescindible para entender el siglo XXI, pero sobre todo para entendernos a nosotros mismos.

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Tusquets Editores S.A.

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8411072665

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9788411072663

Anatomie eines Augenblicks

Die Nacht, in der Spaniens Demokratie gerettet wurde

By: Javier Cercas

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Anatomie eines Augenblicks

Die Nacht, in der Spaniens Demokratie gerettet wurde

By: Javier Cercas

In ›Anatomie eines Augenblicks‹ schildert Javier Cercas den entscheidenden Augenblick am 23. Februar 1981, als das Schicksal der noch jungen Demokratie Spaniens auf der Kippe stand: Das Parlament war umstellt, die Putschisten in den Startlöchern, aber der damalige Präsident und der junge König blieben unerschütterlich. Wie in einem Thriller entfaltet Cercas diesen Moment und analysiert ihn. Mit dem Gespür für Spannung und dem Auge des Romanautors schuf Javier Cercas das bewegte Standbild einer dramatischen Episode, die Spaniens Geschichte hätte auf den Kopf stellen können. »Wir werden ... zu Zeugen einer grandiosen Tat des Widerstands gegen die sich ständig wiederholende Infamie der Geschichte«, schrieb Alberto Manguel. El País wählte es zu seinem Buch des Jahres, und ganz Spanien machte es zum Bestseller.

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S. Fischer Verlag

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3104013233

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9783104013237

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