Juan José Millás is a bestselling and multi award-winning Spanish
novelist and short-story writer, and an award-winning regular
contributor to major Spanish newspapers. His narrative works have
been translated into more than 20 languages, and include the novels
From the Shadows and None Shall Sleep.
Juan Luis Arsuaga is a professor of paleontology at the Complutense
University of Madrid and the director of the Human Evolution and
Behaviour Institute. He is a member of the American National
Academy of Sciences and of the Musée de l'Homme of Paris, a
visiting professor at University College London, and a co-director
of excavations at the Sierra de Atapuerca World Heritage site. He
is a regular contributor to Nature, Science, and the American
Journal of Physical Anthropology, is the editor of the Journal of
Human Evolution, and is a regular lecturer at the universities of
London, Cambridge, Berkeley, New York, Tel Aviv, and Zurich, among
others. The recipient of many national and international awards, he
is the author of more than a dozen works.
Thomas Bunstead is a writer and translator, and currently a Royal
Literary Fellow at Aberystwyth University (2021-23). His recent
translations include Portrait of an Unknown Lady by María Gainza
and Skin by Sergio del Molino.
Daniel Hahn is a writer, editor, and translator, with some eighty
books to his name. His work has won him the Independent Foreign
Fiction Prize and the International Dublin Literary Award, and has
been shortlisted for the Man Booker International Prize, among many
others. His recent translations include Diamela Eltit's Never Did
the Fire, a novel, and Sidarta Ribeiro's The Oracle of Night, a
nonfiction book about neuroscience and dreaming.
"Novelist Millás ... and paleontologist Arsuaga combine forces in
this introspective and playful exploration of human prehistory and
evolution ... Erudite yet fun, this is an illuminating trip into
the past."
--Publishers Weekly "This book is an eclectic nonfiction vehicle
for information that will push the curious reader toward further
research and leave the casual reader with a colorful experience ...
It is a whimsical ride that constantly threatens to jump the rails
from nonfiction into magic realism ... there is literary sparkle to
the text and plenty to learn."
--Library Journal "Millás is one of the writers with the most truth
per square centimeter of a page."
--Antonio Iturbe, What to Read "We like wise men to explain things
to us and understand each other. This is what Arsuaga does
wonderfully in his book, a luminous treatise on life, the universe
and human existence."
--Víctor M. Amela, La Vanguardia "Juan José Millás is the owner of
a fantastic territory of unquestionable personality."
--J.E. Ayala-Dip, El País "Juan Luis Arsuaga has recounted that
prodigious start of human life with all the force of the great
chronicles of travel and discoveries, with his double talent as a
storyteller and scientist."
--Antonio Muñoz Molina "Millás takes advantage of the present to
tell us about his life, to express his perplexity, which is ours,
before the passing of the world ... Navigating through it allows
our imagination to travel."
--Fernando Delgado, La Opinion "[Arsuaga] is one of the world's
leading experts on the evolution of our species, as well as a
prestigious scientist and a born popularizer."
--Ixone Díaz Landaluce, ABC
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