Your Steps on the Stairs

"“Read this amazing novel about a man waiting for his wife in Portugal” might not seem like the best pitch, but the fact that Antonio Muñoz Molina managed to write a captivating book that’s mostly about waiting merits attention. A man is waiting for his wife after they decided to leave New York behind, but the emptiness of the wait makes him think, and those ideas, memories, obsessions, fears, desires and opinions make up most of the novel. A perfect example of a book that shouldn’t work, but definitely does."