The stamp Random House belonging to Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial, will publish in April 2025 ‘God’s Fool in Mongolia’ the new novel by Javier Cercas, after several works published by the author in Planeta and Tusquets.
As the publisher explained, the book is based on a trip by Pope Francis to Mongolia, in which Javier Cercas took part.No writer has ever had the opportunity to write a book like this”Cercas himself pointed out.
The author recalled that the Vatican “had never opened its doors wide to a writer (and much less to an atheist writer).”One of my obsessions while writing these pages was to live up to that unique privilege,” It has been recognized.
This book joins Cercas’ previous works published by the same publisher: ‘Anatomy of an Instant’, ‘The Laws of the Border’, ‘The Blind Spot’, ‘The Impostor’ and ‘The Monarch of Shadows’; as well as the author’s collection collected by Random House and Debolsillo: ‘The Mobile’, ‘The Tenant’, ‘The Belly of the Whale’, ‘Soldiers of Salamis’, ‘The Speed of Light’, ‘True Stories’ and ‘The Truth about Agamemnon’.
“For Penguin Random House it is great news to republish Javier Cercas, and even more so to do so with a text in which Spanish culture, the linguistic universe of Pope Francis, is so prominent.“, Pilar Reyes, the publisher’s editorial director, has stressed.
For his part, Miguel Aguilar, literary director of the label, has explained that this book is that of a writer “in his prime, who manages to turn a very peculiar proposal into a masterful book of his own.”
“With this non-fiction novel, Javier Cercas returns to his most personal line, in which he manages to link his most intimate obsessions with the role of the spiritual and the transcendent in human life.“, he said.
BIOGRAPHY OF FENCES
The writer Javier Cercas (Ibahernando, Cáceres, 1962) graduated in Hispanic Philology from the Autonomous University of Barcelona. He obtained a position as a Spanish lecturer at the University of Illinois in 1987, where he remained for two years, before beginning to teach Spanish Literature at the University of Girona.
His first work is the book of short stories ‘El móvil’ (1987). The critical acclaim for this first work was confirmed by the appearance of the novels ‘El hospedante’ (1989), ‘El vientre de la ballena’ (1997) and ‘Soldados de Salamina’ (2001). The latter was adapted to the big screen by director David Trueba in 2003. In addition, his works have been translated into more than thirty languages.
He became famous with the novel ‘Soldiers of Salamis’ (2001), a work inspired by the failed execution of Rafael Sánchez Mazas. Other of his titles are ‘The Speed of Light’ (2005), ‘Anatomy of an Instant’ (2009), where he reconstructs the attempted coup d’état of 23-F, ‘The Laws of the Border’ (2012), ‘The Impostor’ (2014), his approach to the case of Enric Marco, the false survivor of the Nazi concentration camps, or ‘The Monarch of the Shadows’ (2017), a journey to the civil war through the real case of a relative of his.
Among her awards, she stands out for the Planeta Prize she won in 2019 for her novel ‘Terra alta’. In 2010, she received the National Narrative Award for her book ‘Anatomy of an Instant’.
As an essayist, he has published a volume of criticism entitled ‘La obra literaria de Gonzalo Suárez’ (1993), the result of research carried out for his doctoral thesis presented at the Autonomous University of Barcelona in 1991. He is also a regular contributor to the newspaper El País, and has compiled his articles in ‘Una buena temporada’ (1998), ‘La verdad de Agamenón’ (2006) and his chronicles in ‘Relatos reales’ (2000).