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Is she Blanca, or not? |
| Section: BOOK WORLD / REVIEWS |
| Author: Carol Herman |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 9/1/2007 |
| Size: 934 Words, 5,676 Characters |
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IN HER ABSENCE
By Antonio Munoz Molina
Translated from the Spanish by Esther Allen
Other Press, $113.95, 126 pages
Did she or didn't she? Is she or isn't she? Spanish novelist Antonio Munoz Molina's puzzling and beautiful In Her Absence, concerns a wife of passionate appetites--Blanca--stuck in a provincial Spanish town with Mario, her well intentioned but unremarkable husband. Mario loves Blanca dearly, and in this story of their young marriage, a union beset by trials as he struggles to keep up with his more sophisticated spouse, it is he who garners the lion's share of sympathy.
Mario was raised on soup, beans, tough meat and potatoes. Blanco knows sushi and can use chop sticks "...
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... like [Blanca]" — it is hard not to think of what becomes of the couple. Mr. Munoz Molina, twice the winner of Spain's prestigious Premio Nacional de Literartura prize, skillfully leads the reader to the story's conclusion but does not tip his hand. The pleasure of this deeply felt mystery of a book depends on what cannot be known with certainty.
Copyright © 2007 The Washington Times, LLC.
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