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Tomorrow in the Battle Think on Me is a riveting novel of infidelity and a man trapped by a terrible secret.Marta has only just met Victor when she invites him to dinner at her Madrid apartment while her husband is away on business. When her two-year-old son finally falls asleep, Marta and Victor retreat to the bedroom. Undressing, she feels suddenly ill, and in his arms, inexplicably, she dies. What should Victor do? Remove the compromising t...

Originalmente publicado en Espaäna por Random House Mondadori, S. A. Barcelona, en 2012"--T.p. verso.

Winner of the IMPAC Dublin Award, and widely considered Javier Marías's masterpiece, A Heart So White is a breathtaking novel about family secrets that chronicles the relentless power of the past. Juan knows little of the interior life of his father Ranz, but when Juan marries, he begins to consider the past anew, and begins to ponder what he doesn't really want to know. Secrecy--its possible convenience, its price, and even its civility--hove...

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Het magnum opus van een van onze grootste levende schrijvers: drie meesterlijke romans in één band voor EUR 20! In Jouw gezicht morgen leren we de Spanjaard Jaime Deza kennen, voormalig docent aan de Universiteit van Oxford, die in Engeland als agent voor een geheime organisatie werkt. Het is Deza's taak om te onderzoeken wat mensen in de toekomst zullen doen, te achterhalen hoe hun gezichten morgen zullen zijn. Gedurende zijn zoektocht ...

In To Begin at the Beginning, celebrated Spanish novelist and translator Javier Marías explores his impulse to write, the origins of his own family, and the connection between these two different sorts of beginnings. Exploring the difference between what is true in the world and what is true in fiction, he explains why an appeal to "real" events has never convinced him, why the history of his own family--with its Cuban and Spanish strands--has...

Javier Mar¿ is the author of sixteen works in Spanish, which have been translated into forty-five languages including English. His translated English works are All Souls, A Heart So White, Tomorrow in the Battle Think on Me, When I Was Mortal, Dark Back of Time, The Man of Feeling, Voyage Along the Horizon, Written Lives, the Your Face Tomorrow trilogy (Fever and Spear, Dance and Dream and Poison, Shadow and Farewell), Bad Nature, While the Wo...

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Javier Mar¿ is the author of sixteen works in Spanish, which have been translated into forty-five languages including English. His translated English works are All Souls, A Heart So White, Tomorrow in the Battle Think on Me, When I Was Mortal, Dark Back of Time, The Man of Feeling, Voyage Along the Horizon, Written Lives, the Your Face Tomorrow trilogy (Fever and Spear, Dance and Dream and Poison, Shadow and Farewell), Bad Nature, While the Wo...

Voyage Along the Horizon revolves around an intrepid expedition: the eccentric, wealthy Captain Kerrigan, an attractive man with a shadowy past, organizes a trip to Antarctica for a select group of writers, artists, and scientists.Amid sudden kidnappings, torrid manuscripts, Edwardian spinsters, and lethal duels, this seafaring tale is also a narrative of psychology, obsession, the writer's craft, and human nature, all of which Marías has wrap...

Luisa e Miguel sono la coppia perfetta: María Dolz, che lavora in una casa editrice di Madrid, da anni li osserva ogni mattina al caffè e dal quel rapporto fatto di sincera tenerezza e profondo affetto trae la forza per affrontare la propria assai meno perfetta vita privata e sentimentale, ma anche la insopportabile vanità dei suoi autori. Un giorno la donna scopre però che Miguel Desvern è stato ucciso, brutalmente accoltellato dal custode di...

Uno no lo desea, pero prefiere siempre que muera el que está a su lado, en una misión o una batalla, en una escuadrilla aérea o bajo un bombardeo o en la trinchera cuando las había, en un asalto callejero o en un atraco a una tienda o en un secuestro de turistas, en un terremoto, una explosión, un atentado, un incendio, da lo mismo: el compañero, el hermano, el padre o incluso el hijo, aunque sea niño. Y también la amada, también la amada, ant...

Part spy novel, part romance, part Henry James, Your Face Tomorrow is a wholly remarkable display of the immense gifts of Javier Marias. With Fever and Spear, Volume One of his unfolding novel Your Face Tomorrow, he returns us to the rarified world of Oxford (the delightful setting of All Souls and Dark Back of Time), while introducing us to territory entirely new--espionage. Our hero, Jaime Deza, separated from his wife in Madrid, is a bit a...

Marias's riveting novel about an opera singer and an extramarital affair.

Infine, l'attesa si compie: ecco la terza parte, quella conclusiva, del grande romanzo di Javier Marías. La vicenda è quella ormai nota: Jaime Deza - che amici, colleghi e familiari chiamano Jacobo, Jack, Jacques, ma anche Yago - è al servizio di un misterioso centro di spionaggio inglese che sfrutta il suo straordinario talento di interpretare le potenzialità di un carattere, di saper leggere il volto delle persone e di prevederne così i comp...

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Valle-Inclßn, Borges, Aleixandre, Benet, Bioy Casares, GarcÝa Lorca, Victoria Ocampo, Cabrera Infante... Javier MarÝas dedica una certera mirada a estos y a otros autores de literatura en espa±ol.

Una summa del pensamiento de Javier Marías sobre asuntos literarios Escritura sobre la escritura, pero sobre todo, sobre la lectura, Literatura y fantasma reúne 72 artículos publicados desde 1978 a 2000 en diversos medios, cuyo nexo común, según su autor, es tratar de asuntos literarios o relacionados con la literatura y sus aledaños, incluidos los comentarios sobre sus propios libros o sobre su propia literatura. Como en un cuadern...