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The Infatuations by Javier Marias
A New York Times Book Review Notable Book, NPR Great Reads, and Onion A.V. Club Best Book of 2013
Each day before work Mar a Dolz stops at the same caf . There she finds herself drawn to a couple who is also there every morning. Observing their seemingly perfect life helps her escape the listlessness of her own. But when the man is brutally murdered and Mar a approaches the widow to offer her condolences, what began as mere observation turns into an increasingly complicated entanglement. Invited into the widow's home, she meets--and falls in love with--a man who sheds disturbing new light on the crime. As Mar a recounts this story, we are given a murder mystery brilliantly encased in a metaphysical enquiry, a novel that grapples with questions of love and death, chance and coincidence, and above all, with the slippery essence of the truth and how it is told.Javier Marias was born in the city of Madrid in the year 1951. He has published thirteen novels, three story collections, and nineteen works of collected articles and essays, and has won numerous awards, including the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Prize and the Prix Femina etranger. His works have been translated into forty-three languages and sold in fifty-two countries, with over seven million copies sold worldwide.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780307960726 |
| ISBN 10 | 0307960722 |
| Title | The Infatuations |
| Author | Javier Marias |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Knopf Publishing Group |
| Year published | 2013-08-13 |
| Number of pages | 337 |
| Prizes | Commended for National Book Critics Circle Award (Fiction) 2013 |
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