The Long Night

Original Title: La larga noche

“He’d received Almeida’s hand-written note in the producer’s Barcelona headquarters. It looked like a page from a school notebook, or one ripped out of the Notes section of a diary and the big, untidily scribbled letters invaded the margins: the barest summary of a plot and the film’s title, The Long Night. There were hardly any other instructions for writing the script, the first draft of which had to be ready within sixteen weeks […] Although Almeida’s note made no explicit mention of any historic episode, it vaguely reminded him of ‘The Long Night’ of Madrid’s resistance during the Civil War”.

Praises

«A novel to keep you awake. Javier Mije’s finely wrought prose shines in this book where some truly impressive pages will make you want to get out your
pen and underline them from start to finish».
ABC

"Brilliant style. Splendid, deep, luminous and dark».
El País

"Mije’s literature is subtle. There is nothing gratuitous about it».
La Opinión de Málaga

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Details

Acantilado

April 2014

160 pages

Narrative, Novel