The Infatuations by Javier Marías
Every day, Maria Dolz stops for breakfast at the same cafe. And every day she enjoys watching a handsome couple who follow the same routine. Then one day they aren't there, and she feels obscurely bereft.
Mesmerising. . At this very fine and disturbing novel's core is a compelling meditation on love in all its ramifications * Herald *
The real pleasure is in the strange things his narrators do to the business of narration. Marías has discovered a unique form -- Adam Thirlwell * TLS *
Plotted with tremendous skill and elegance, this cerebral tale is entirely absorbing * Daily Mail *
The classical themes of love, death and fate are explored with elegant intelligence by Marías in what is perhaps his best novel so far' -- Alberto Manguel * Guardian *
Marías at his most haunting * Financial Times *
No one else, anywhere, is writing quite like this -- Tim Martin * Daily Telegraph *
Absorbing and unnerving . . . powered by the pressure of good old-fashioned suspense * Sunday Times *
A murder mystery that's also a brilliant meditation on life, love and death -- Robert McCrum * Observer *
The real pleasure is in the strange things his narrators do to the business of narration. Marías has discovered a unique form -- Adam Thirlwell * TLS *
Plotted with tremendous skill and elegance, this cerebral tale is entirely absorbing * Daily Mail *
The classical themes of love, death and fate are explored with elegant intelligence by Marías in what is perhaps his best novel so far' -- Alberto Manguel * Guardian *
Marías at his most haunting * Financial Times *
No one else, anywhere, is writing quite like this -- Tim Martin * Daily Telegraph *
Absorbing and unnerving . . . powered by the pressure of good old-fashioned suspense * Sunday Times *
A murder mystery that's also a brilliant meditation on life, love and death -- Robert McCrum * Observer *
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. Margaret Jull Costa has translated the works of many Spanish and Portuguese writers, among them novelists: Javier Marías, José Saramago and Eça de Queiroz, and poets: Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen, Mário de Sá-Carneiro, Fernando Pessoa and Ana Luísa Amaral. Her work has brought her numerous prizes, among them, the 2018 Premio Valle-Inclán for On the Edge by Rafael Chirbes. In 2013, she was appointed a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and, in 2014, she was awarded an OBE for services to literature.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780241958490 |
| ISBN 10 | 0241958490 |
| Titel | The Infatuations |
| Autor | Javier Marías |
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| Bindungsart | Paperback |
| Verlag | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Erscheinungsjahr | 2014-02-27 |
| Seitenanzahl | 352 |
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