Javier Cercas

The Tenant and the Motive

by Javier Cercas & Anne McLean

Two witty, Kafkaesque novellas by the author of the best-selling Soldiers of Salamis, winner of the 2003 Independent Foreign Fiction Prize

The Speed of Light

by Javier Cercas

Javier Cercas' third and most ambitious novel has already been heralded in Spain as "daring," "magnificent, complex, and intense," and "a master class in invention and truth."As a young writer, the novel's protagonist-perhaps...

Soldiers of Salamis

Independent Foreign Fiction Prize 2004

by Javier Cercas

In the final moments of the Spanish Civil War, a writer and founding member of Franco's Fascist Party is about to be shot, and yet miraculously escapes into the forest. When his hiding place is discovered, he...

The Anatomy of a Moment

by Javier Cercas

In February 1981, Spain was still emerging from Franco's shadow, holding a democratic vote for the new prime minister. On the day of the vote in Parliament, while the session was being filmed by TV cameras,...