Author : Javier Marías
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 17,80 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780811217279
A daring masterwork by Javier Marias: "Spain's most subtle and gifted writer." (The Boston Globe)
Author : Javier Marías
Publisher : Random House
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 20,83 MB
Release : 2007
Category : College teachers
ISBN : 0099492962
Your Face Tomorrow, Javier Marias s dazzling unfolding magnum opus is a novel in three parts which began with Fever and Spear (Chatto 2005). Described as an intriguing and audacious experiment (Sunday Times) and an outstanding spy
Author : Javier Marías
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 21,34 MB
Release : 2008-05-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0811223906
A book unlike any other, a daring experiential unfolding Spanish masterpiece, Your Face Tomorrow now leaps into uncharted new territory in Volume Two: Dance and Dream. Your Face Tomorrow, Javier Marias's dazzling unfolding magnum opus, is a novel in three parts, which began with Volume One: Fever and Spear. Described as a "brilliant dark novel" (Scotland on Sunday), the book now takes a wild swerve in its new volume. Skillfully constructed around a central perplexing and mesmerizing scene in a nightclub, Volume Two: Dance and Dream again features Jacques Deza. In Volume One he was hired by MI6 as a person of extraordinarily sophisticated powers of perception. In Volume Two Deza discovers the dark side of his new employer when Tupra, his spy-master boss, brings out a sword and uses it in a way that appalls Deza: You can't just go around hurting and killing people like that. Why not? asks Tupra. Searching meditations on favors and jealousy, knowledge and the deep human desire not to know, violence and death play against memories of the Spanish Civil War as Deza's world becomes increasingly murky.
Author : Javier Marías
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File Size : 24,47 MB
Release : 2005
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ISBN : 9780811216128
Author : Javier Marías
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 33,1 MB
Release : 2007-09-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0811223892
A daring masterwork by Javier Marias: "Spain's most subtle and gifted writer." (The Boston Globe) 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 adrift in London until his old friend Sir Peter Wheeler—retired Oxford don and semi-retired master spy—recruits him for a new career in British Intelligence. Deza possesses a rare gift for seeing behind the masks people wear. He is soon observing interviews conducted by Her Majesty's secret service: variously shady international businessmen one day, would-be coup leaders the next. Seductively, this metaphysical thriller explores past, present, and future in the ever-more-perilous 21st century. This compelling and enigmatic tour de force from one of Europe's greatest writers continues with Volume Two, Dance and Dream.
Author : Javier Marías
Publisher : Your Face Tomorrow
Page : 560 pages
File Size : 18,35 MB
Release : 2011
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780811219242
Your Face Tomorrow, Javier Marías's daring novel in three parts culminates triumphantly in this much-anticipated final volume.
Author : Javier Marías
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Page : 560 pages
File Size : 39,55 MB
Release : 2011-06-08
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0811223914
Your Face Tomorrow, Javier Marías’s daring novel in three parts culminates triumphantly in this much-anticipated final volume. Poison, Shadow, and Farewell, with its heightened tensions between meditations and noir narrative, with its wit and and ever deeper forays into the mysteries of consciousness, brings to a stunning finale Marías’s three-part Your Face Tomorrow. Already this novel has been acclaimed “exquisite“ (Publishers Weekly), “gorgeous” (Kirkus), and “outstanding: another work of urgent originality” (London Independent). Poison, Shadow, and Farewell takes our hero Jaime Deza—hired by MI6 as a person of extraordinarily sophisticated powers of perception—back to Madrid to both spy on and try to protect his own family, and into new depths of love and loss, with a fluency on the subject of death that could make a stone weep.
Author : Javier Marías
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 22,94 MB
Release : 2018-03-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0241288924
'Unquestionably the most significant Spanish writer of his generation ... Your Face Tomorrow is rich, haunting, intriguing' Observer 'This trilogy must be one of the greatest novels of our age' Antony Beevor 'Fear is the greatest force that exists, as long as you can adapt to it' Jacques Deza has been recruited into an undercover spy network by the inscrutable Bertram Tupra. But when he is forced to witness an act of horrifying brutality in a night-club, he finds himself falling apart, haunted by his own memories of the bloodshed of the Spanish Civil War. As Deza tries to disentangle himself from an increasingly disturbing world, the second volume in Javier Marias' magnificent trilogy explores violence, corruption and what we are capable of. Translated by Margaret Jull Costa
Author : Javier Marías
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 341 pages
File Size : 16,42 MB
Release : 2006
Category : College teachers
ISBN : 9780701179755
Your Face Tomorrow, Javier Marias's dazzling unfolding magnum opus is a novel in three parts which began with Fever and Spear (Chatto 2005). Described as an 'intriguing and audacious experiment' (Sunday Times) and an 'outstanding spy novel of ideas' (Independent), the book now takes us even deeper into the dark world of Jacques Deza as, in volume two, his relationship with his shadowy boss, Bertram Tupra, becomes increasingly disconcerting. Jacques Deza is in a kind of limbo. Separated from his wife and child, living in London to make a break from Spain, he has found work with an M16-like organisation who employ him for his acute powers of observation and insight into human nature. But, as Jacques discovers to his cost, it is not possible to distance yourself from other human beings entirely. Just to listen to someone asking you a favour, however insignificant, is to become implicated in their lives. And when your boss forces you to watch him lure a man into a nightclub toilet and threaten to execute him with a sword, your innocence is definitely suspect. Jacques finds himself remembering his father's horrifying stories of the Spanish Civil War a Will Jacques manage to remain morally unharmed and will Marias sustain this novel's brilliantly digressive dance? The reader longs for volume three in order to find out.
Author : Javier Marías
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 19,62 MB
Release : 2013-03-26
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0307950751
A riveting novel of infidelity and a man trapped by a terrible secret, from "the most subtle and gifted writer in contemporary Spanish literature" (Boston Sunday Globe). 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 tape from the answering machine? Leave food for the child for breakfast? These are just his first steps, but he soon takes matters further; unable to bear the shadows and the unknowing, Victor plunges into dark waters. And Javier Marías, Europe's master of secrets, of what lies reveal and truth may conceal, is on sure ground in this profound, quirky, and marvelous novel.
