Like a fading shadow / Antonio Munoz Molina ; translated from the Spanish by Camilo A. Ramirez.
Language: English Original language: Spanish Publication details: London : Tuskar Rock, 2017.Description: 310 pages ; 24 cmISBN:- 9781781258934 (hardback)
- Como la sombra que se va. English
- King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968 -- Assassination -- Fiction
- Ray, James Earl, 1928-1998 -- Fiction
- King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968 -- Fiction
- King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968
- Ray, James Earl, 1928-1998
- King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968 -- Assassination -- Fiction
- Ray, James Earl, 1928-1998 -- Fiction
- Historical fiction
- Historical fiction
- Fugitives from justice -- Fiction
- Portugal -- Lisbon
- Lisbon (Portugal) -- Fiction
- 863.7 23
- PQ6663.U4795 C6613 2017
| Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item reserves | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Book | Melbourne Athenaeum Library | Fiction | MUN | Available | 067557 |
First published as Como la sombra que se va in 2014 by Seix Barral, Barcelona, Spain. First published in this translation in 2017 by Farrar, Straus and Giroux, New York.
Includes bibliographical references.
On April 4th 1968, Martin Luther King was murdered by a man named James Earl Ray. Before Ray's capture and sentencing to 99 years' imprisonment, he evaded the FBI for two months as he crossed the globe under various aliases. At the heart of his story is Lisbon, where he spent ten days attempting to acquire an Angolan visa. Like a Fading Shadow traces three journeys to the city: Ray's desperate attempt to evade justice in 1968; a research trip undertaken by the young Muñoz Molina for his breakthrough novel Winter in Lisbon in 1987; and the return journey taken by the novelist as he attempts to reconstruct these twin stories from the instability of the past, and interrogates his own obsession with one of the twentieth century's most notorious figures.
Translated from the Spanish.
