ولليلتين بقيتا من شوال سنة إحدى عشرة وأربعمائة فُقد (الحاكم بأمر الله). وقيل أن سبب فقده أخته ست الملك, وكانت امرأة حازمة، وقيل أنها غضبت لأفعاله التي هددت استقرار الخلافة الفاطمية. وقيل بل تآمرت عليه جماعة سرية, حين قرب إليه رجلاً خطيراً يُدعى (الشيخ الأسود), وقيل بل اختفى لأن الله أرسل صاعقة من السماء فوق رأسه أحرقته بعد أن قال بأنه إله, وقيل أن بعض العامة قد تآمروا عليه, وقد انتشر الرعب والفزع في بر مصر كلها بسبب فرسان الظلام الذي أتى بهم ليحكموا ليل القاهرة.
Joan Tatar's memory falters on scenes that Syrians experienced in the laboratory of their torment. It is the slow Syrian time that brings and brings with it in Tatar’s diary the various elements of the experience: starting from the market, to the soldier, to being discharged from it, in a biography that contradicts time, from symbolic death to symbolic birth, in a country that resembles a long dormitory crowded with people. Throughout this cycle of Syrian life, murmurs and stinks are present. Life, as Joan Teter portrays it in this book, is an experiment with low sounds that end in final silence. An experiment with the depths of fear. Is it deeper than we imagined? Is it possible to escape from the fear that has become part of water, and from thirst, part of glut, and part of hunger? Many opposites meet on that distant horizon that made the Syrian dough in the soldier’s laboratory. Were they prisoners or soldiers? Are they condemned or heroes? Everything is equal, all values are equal in that horizon which is the space of Syria, the space of fear and pleas for freedom.
Peralbo plays jazz in Lady Bird, where Lucrezia heard him and became passionate about his music, and he fell in love with its mystery.
After a long time, the narrator meets that musician “Peralbo” again, but now he takes the name “Giacomo Dolphin” and lives a different life. What happened during these years? Why did he change his name? What is the story of the stolen painting? Is the title of the song “Lisbon,” which is repeated over and over again, the key to the mysterious past?
In the humid rainy streets, in night bars drowned in smoke, and in nights filled with blue and pink lights, and to the rhythm of jazz music, the novel’s heroes strive to understand love, music, and the secret of a city from which there is no point in escaping, because it will follow them to the ends of the world.
In this novel, which won the National Prize for Literature and the Critics' Prize in Spain, Antonio Muñoz Molina writes, with a graceful detective plot, a love poem in love with music.
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