Like a fading shadow
Munoz Molina, Antonio2017
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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 Munoz 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 20th century's most notorious figures.
Main title:
Like a fading shadow / Antonio Munoz Molina.
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Imprint:
London : Tuskar Rock, 2017.
Collation:
432 pages ; 24 cm.
Notes:
Translated from the Spanish.
ISBN:
9781781258934 (hbk)1781258937 (hbk)9781782833758 (ePub ebook)
LC class:
PQ6663.U4795
Language:
EnglishSpanish
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BRN:
321871