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Marías weaves a thrilling and desolate meditation on the psychic costs of the deep state's dark arts.
Marías weaves a thrilling and desolate meditation on the psychic costs of the deep state's dark arts.
Magical...finest novel to date
Compelling
A twisty, thought-provoking tale that puts notions of truth and morality under pitiless scrutiny
elegant, discursive, persuasively vivid novel...powerful and indelible
Javier Marías was born in Madrid in 1951 and died in 2022. He published fifteen novels, three collections of short stories and several volumes of essays. His work has been translated into forty-three languages and has won a dazzling array of international literary awards, including the prestigious Dublin IMPAC award for A Heart So White. He held academic posts in Spain, the United States and in Britain, as Lecturer in Spanish Literature at Oxford University.