作者: Cercas Javier Cercas

_______________ ”Richly imagined, suspenseful and surprisingly poignant … a reminder of how Spanish history might have taken a dramatically different turn” – Financial Times ”Persuasive, brilli …

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 …

_______________ ”His novels probe the sore spots and raw wounds of contemporary Spain, their cunning and complexity leavened by a light touch and an easy, graceful style” – Boyd Tonkin, Independen …

Javier Cercas’ third and most ambitious novel has already been heralded in Spain as "daring, " "magnificent, complex, and intense, " and "a master class in invention and trut …

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 c …

On a summer day at the arcade, timid sixteen-year-old Ignacio Canas encounters two charismatic rebels: El Zarco ("Blue Eyes") and his gorgeous girl, Tere. Entranced, he crosses the border i …

_______________’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, friendshi …