After Martin Luther King was assassinated, Ray was able to escape with a fake passport, and as he moved from one country to another, he kept reading the newspapers, delighted to see his name on the list of the FBI's "ten most dangerous criminals." His journey finally lands him in Lisbon, where he spends ten days waiting for a visa to enter Angola. But Lisbon was also the city that inspired Antonio Muñoz Molina, his most famous novel, and when he now decided to write a novel about Ray, the city became witness to three alternating stories: a murderous man on the run from justice, a writer struggling to find his literary voice, and the writer himself. Thirty years later, he reflects on his life, the life of his hero, and the form of the novel in which he tries to imagine the world with the consciousness of another man.
In As a Shadow Departs, which was shortlisted for the International Booker Prize in 2018, Molina writes a captivating, powerful, and detailed novel, integrating the fictional event with how it is written about.
My stories.. A collection of stories, most of them from real life, that happened to me. It was a lived reality! A few of them were speculative, born of imagination. The collection is crafted in a literary, meditative, and musical style. On this page I would like to point out two stories from this group. The first, “Love Behind the Glass”; Its hero is the hoopoe, who loves himself to the point of madness! The glass was reflecting his image! He understood the reflection! He did not understand the deception of glass. She thought she was exchanging love with the scales of justice! All the responses were equal parts taps, dances, and flying spins! Abandonment! Until the final fall and surrender! As for the second, it is entitled “Zero has ten dreams.” I do not remember when I wrote it except that I saw Zero before it! Picture me as a little kid! And I saw him growing up in dreams! Dreams are numbers! And residences are symbols! So I interpreted it and interpreted it as the events of the days pleased me at that time! It made digital symbols a story... unlike any other story. And here are all the stories... for you. East clouds
In this book, I collected some of them to put them in your hands... because what happened to me or to one of the heroes of these thoughts also happened to you in one way or another...
Laughter, happiness, optimism, sadness and tears..
These feelings will touch you within the folds of this book, and you will see a reflection of a feeling
We have always thought about it, but we have not been able to express it in the form of words that ears can hear.
Her refuge was these papers so that hearts could see them before eyes.
There are happy endings, some are sad, and some of them I leave the pen to you to create an ending inspired by your own imagination.
You are also the hero of a story that you live and you are free to choose an ending that suits you
A social situation that the young people were fed up with... or a strange behavior that appeared among them...
Perhaps a feeling that has stood in the way of our lives... Bells ringing the holes of attention, waving at us with an icy hand...
Either it will dissolve before we notice it, or we will dissolve before we understand its purpose.
Here we stop and give it our minds... for you and perhaps for those after you
The book will take you on a journey to travel through different stages of life that most of us have experienced, such as the work environment, the impact of social networking sites on our private and professional lives, as well as some topics related to the Fourth Industrial Revolution. With the addition of some of my own touches that mimic my point of view and convictions, to be the captain of this short, enjoyable journey. Similar to the saying: (The world is a book, whoever does not travel through it sees only one page), I say:
The book is a world of ideas, and whoever does not read it does not think.
