Sepharad

From one of Spain's most celebrated writers, an extraordinary, inspired bookat once fiction, history, and memoirthat draws on the Sephardic diaspora, the Holocaust, and Stalin's purges to tell a twentieth-century story. Shifting seamlessly from the past to the present and following the routes of escape across countries and continents, Muoz Molina evokes people real and imagined who come together in a richly allusive patternfrom Eugenia Ginsburg to Grete Buber-Neumann, the one on a train to the gulag, the otherheading towarda Nazi concentration camp, from a shoemaker and a nun who become lovers in a small Spanish townto Primo Levi bound for Auschwitz.Fromthe well known to the virtually unknownall of Molina's characters are voices of separation, nostalgia, love, and endless waiting. Written with clarity of vision and passion, in a style both lyrical and accessible, Sepharad makes the experience our own. A brilliant achievement.