The Midnight Library

About This Book

An enigmatic novel exploring forgotten histories and the ghosts that inhabit old libraries. Marías's prose transforms research into revelation.

When academic Daniel Escobar is granted rare access to a private archive in Toledo, he expects to spend quiet weeks cataloguing correspondence from Spain's literary past. Instead, he discovers letters that suggest a conspiracy, manuscripts that shouldn't exist, and a librarian who may know more than she reveals.

As Daniel descends deeper into the archive's labyrinth, the boundary between historical research and personal obsession begins to blur. What secrets do these documents hold? And what price will he pay for uncovering them?

Atmospheric, intellectual, and deeply compelling, The Midnight Library is Marías at his finest, a meditation on memory, truth, and the stories we bury.