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Winner of the 2020 Prix Médicis etranger I want to live on foot, by hand, by pencil, at ease, responsive to whatever I meet, loose like the air that moves around my body as I walk or like a graceful swimming stroke. I want to remain astonished. Join Antonio Muñoz Molina for a walk through Madrid, Paris, London and New York, where the past and the present live side by side in the literature of newspaper headlines, billboards, casual glances and overheard conversation. This is the digital metropolis, captured in notebooks, recorded on the iPhone, where Edgar Allan Poe, Herman Melville, Charles Baudelaire, Thomas de Quincey, Fernando Pessoa and Walter Benjamin step beside us, all of us writing the unfinished poem of the crowded city.

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Tolstoyan in its scale, emotional intensity and intellectual honesty. -- Economist * Economist *
Molina is a true original -- Salman Rushdie
Spellbinding * Washington Post *
Exhilarating . . . exceptional . . . necessary -- Adam Feinstein * Financial Times *
Compellingly seductive * Independent *

To Walk Alone in the Crowd

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    A Hardback by Antonio Munoz Molina, Peter Straus, Guillermo Bleichmar

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      Publisher Profile Books Ltd
      Published 5 August 2021
      ISBN-13 9781788161947
      978-1788161947
      ISBN-10 1788161947
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      Fiction Contemporary Fiction Books by Antonio Munoz Molina

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      Book Synopsis
      Winner of the 2020 Prix Médicis etranger I want to live on foot, by hand, by pencil, at ease, responsive to whatever I meet, loose like the air that moves around my body as I walk or like a graceful swimming stroke. I want to remain astonished. Join Antonio Muñoz Molina for a walk through Madrid, Paris, London and New York, where the past and the present live side by side in the literature of newspaper headlines, billboards, casual glances and overheard conversation. This is the digital metropolis, captured in notebooks, recorded on the iPhone, where Edgar Allan Poe, Herman Melville, Charles Baudelaire, Thomas de Quincey, Fernando Pessoa and Walter Benjamin step beside us, all of us writing the unfinished poem of the crowded city.

      Trade Review
      Tolstoyan in its scale, emotional intensity and intellectual honesty. -- Economist * Economist *
      Molina is a true original -- Salman Rushdie
      Spellbinding * Washington Post *
      Exhilarating . . . exceptional . . . necessary -- Adam Feinstein * Financial Times *
      Compellingly seductive * Independent *

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