Stars in His Eyes
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And as he whistled a melody from Sinatra that had popped into his head, “Me and My Shadow,” he walked slowly back to his hotel. He identified with the lyrics to that song, which reflected solitude, individualism, and silent, constant work. In the end, it was him and his shadow, him and his circumstances. Alone, and sure of himself.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
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Martí Gironell i Gamero is a journalist and writer born in Besalú in 1971. His debut work, The Bridge of the Jews, is the bestselling historical novel ever written by a Catalan author and has sold over one hundred thousand copies. He’s written several novels set in different periods of Catalan history. He currently works at Catalan national television TV3 and writes for the newspaper El Punt Avui. He is considered a master of the popular historical novel, and his novels have brought renewed interest and fame to forgotten yet fascinating figures of Southern Europe’s history.
ABOUT THE TRANSLATOR
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Adrian Nathan West is a literary translator and the author of The Aesthetics of Degradation. He is a frequent contributor to the Times Literary Supplement and the Literary Review; his work has also appeared in the London Review of Books, Frieze, the New York Review of Books, McSweeney’s, and many other journals in print and online. His translations include Juan Benet’s Construction of the Tower of Babel, Rainald Goetz’s Insane, and Marianne Fritz’s The Weight of Things.