I do not know if what I am going to narrate has happened before, or if it is happening today, this hour, now, this moment. Or will it happen later, tomorrow or the next day, very soon or very far away? But, I know, it always happens. where? In the world, here, there and everywhere, but what matters to me is that it is happening here in this place, my country, and in the city that I could not leave, for countless reasons. The city that, I repeat, I cannot die away from, nor can I live away from it. with whom? With me, it is the first answer, because it is known about me that I only write about myself, or something that happened with another person I know well, or perhaps with a person I know briefly, or with a person I created from a mixture of people, or a person I made up completely. However, as a technical solution to this dilemma, I see that this time, it happened to you specifically, you who are now reading what I write and suspect that it is about you, then little by little you will know that it is about you. Because literally, or almost literally, it happened to you, and it applies to you only.
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.
طائرة تختفي عن شاشة الرادار، لتظهر بعدها لمدة دقيقة واحدة على بُعد آلاف الكيلومترات، قبل أن تختفي مجددًا.. رجل مجهول يظهر بغتة من العدم.. موتى يعودون للحياة دون إنذار.. نبوءة قديمة.. عبارة غامضة تتكرر بإلحاح غريب.. أمطار من الضفادع..وجثث
وتروي السلسلة مجموعة من القصص الواقعية على لسان طبيب نفسي يعمل في إحدى المستشفيات تتعلق بمرضاه المختلفة حالاتهم، لاسيما الفتيات منهم، ساردا أغرب الحكايات التي يبدو بعضها أقرب إلى الجنون من المنطق!