Your Steps on the Stairs: A Novel

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Heady and unsettling, a couple's new life in Lisbon unravels in this psychological thriller from one of Spain's most celebrated writers. Heady and unsettling, a couple's new life in Lisbon unravels in this psychological thriller from one of Spain's most celebrated writers. A man travels to Lisbon ahead of his wife to prepare their newly purchased home, while she stays in New York to oversee a research project on the neuroscience of memory and fear. Leaving behind a phase of their relationship indelibly marked by 9/11, he revels in the Portuguese capital's temperate weather and the neighborhood's calm, meticulously planning the details of their future. Yet beneath the peace and quiet of this routine, he feels a growing unease he can't explain. Is it the similarity between the two cities, and the two apartments A mysterious threat waiting in the wings A brilliant, deceptively simple novel of psychological suspense, Your Steps on the Stairs explores how our emotions and memories shape our perception of reality. With his subtle, masterful style, Antonio Munoz Molina lays bare the fragility of the stories we so carefully craft about ourselves.

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Praise for Sepharad:

A magnificent novel about the iniquity and horror of fanaticism, and especially humanitys indestructible spirit.Mario Vargas Llosa

[A] remarkable novelone that turns out to be about a territory far vaster than Sepharad itself: Europe, perhaps even the worldA masterpiece. Daniel Mendelsohn, New York Review of Books

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Antonio Munoz Molina is the author of more than a dozen novels, among them Sepharad, A Manuscript of Ashes, and In Her Absence (Other Press). He has been awarded the Jerusalem Prize for the Freedom of the Individual in Society and the Prince of Asturias Award, among many others. Munoz Molina lives in Madrid and New York City. Curtis Bauer is a poet and translator of prose and poetry from Spanish. He is the recipient of a PEN/Heim Translation Fund Grant and a Banff International Literary Translation Centre fellowship. His translation of Jeannette Clariond's Image of Absence won the International Latino Book Award for Best Nonfiction Book Translation from Spanish to English. Bauer teaches creative writing and comparative literature at Texas Tech University.