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The concluding part to Marias's masterwork: 'This trilogy must be one of the greatest novels of our age' ...
'The world looks different, people speak and act differently after you have read his work' (Allan Massie ...
Javier Marias was born in 1951. His novels, short stories and essay collections have won a dazzling array of international literary awards. His work has been translated into thirty-four languages and more than five million copies of his books have been sold worldwide. He has held academic posts in Spain, the United States and in Britain, as Lecturer in Spanish Literature at Oxford University and was recently nominated to be a member of the Real Academia de la Lengua Española. He lives in Madrid.
'Javier Mar-as is in my opinion one of the best contemporary writers' J. M. Coetzee'[I am] enthralled by his strange mix of made-up memories, lost experiences and real-life fantasies.' Marina Warner, ...
'Brilliantly imagined-a novel one reads with enormous pleasure' La Vanguardia
'Probably the wittiest novel set in British academia since David Lodge's Changing Places' Daily Mail
'It has achieved the status of a manifesto: it is one of those unusual books breaks new ground' Le Monde
'Javier Mar-as is in my opinion one of the best contemporary writers' J. M. Coetzee
The first major new novel from Marias since A Heart So White, winner of the IMPAC prize and a bestseller in Spain. Set in England, the book has all the suspense of the best spy novels, which it parodies ...
The concluding part to Marias's masterwork: 'This trilogy must be one of the greatest novels of our age' (Antony Beevor)
Volume 2 in Javier Marias's brilliant, audacious and compelling trilogy
'The world looks different, people speak and act differently after you have read his work' (Allan Massie, The Scotsman): a creepy, disturbing and sharply brilliant short story collection from the masterful ...