{"product_id":"to-walk-alone-in-the-crowd-paperback","title":"To Walk Alone in the Crowd - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eAntonio Muñoz Molina\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eGuillermo Bleichmar\u003c\/b\u003e (Translator)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWinner of the 2020 Medici Prize for Foreign Novel\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFrom the award-winning author of the Man Booker Prize finalist \u003ci\u003eLike a Fading Shadow\u003c\/i\u003e, Antonio Muñoz Molina presents a flâneur-novel tracing the path of a nameless wanderer as he walks the length of Manhattan, and his mind.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eDe Quincey, Baudelaire, Poe, Joyce, Benjamin, Melville, Lorca, Whitman . . . walkers and city dwellers all, collagists and chroniclers, picking the detritus of their eras off the filthy streets and assembling it into something new, shocking, and beautiful. In \u003ci\u003eTo Walk Alone in the Crowd\u003c\/i\u003e, Antonio Muñoz Molina emulates these classic inspirations, following their peregrinations and telling their stories in a book that is part memoir, part novel, part chronicle of urban wandering. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA skilled collagist himself, Muñoz Molina here assembles overheard conversations, subway ads, commercials blazing away on public screens, snatches from books hurriedly packed into bags or shoved under one's arm, mundane anxieties, and the occasional true flash of insight--struggling to announce itself amid this barrage of data--into a poem of contemporary life: an invitation to let oneself be carried along by the sheer energy of the digital metropolis. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA denunciation of the harsh noise of capitalism, of the conversion of everything into either merchandise or garbage (or both), \u003ci\u003eTo Walk Alone in the Crowd\u003c\/i\u003e is also a celebration of the beauty and variety of our world, of the ecological and aesthetic gaze that can, even now, recycle waste into art, and provide an opportunity for rebirth.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAntonio Muñoz Molina\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of more than a dozen novels, including \u003ci\u003eIn the Night of Time\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eSepharad\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eLike a Fading Shadow. \u003c\/i\u003eHe is the recipient of numerous prizes and awards, including Spain's National Narrative Prize, the Planeta Prize, the Medici Prize for Foreign Novel, and the Príncipe de Asturias Prize. He has been a full member of the Royal Spanish Academy since 1995. He lives in Madrid and New York City.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 432\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.1 x 8.72 x 5.56 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e July 12, 2022\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48670097637515,"sku":"9781250849144","price":31.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0670\/2579\/7259\/files\/Jb5wbcEmmZ9781250849144.webp?v=1785372356","url":"https:\/\/thetaletrade.com\/products\/to-walk-alone-in-the-crowd-paperback","provider":"The Tale Trade","version":"1.0","type":"link"}