Your Face Tomorrow 3 by Javier Marias
Poison, Shadow and Farewell is the concluding part in Javier Marias spy trilogy masterwork, Your Face Tomorrow. Jacques Deza is back in London and once again working for the secret intelligence agency run by Bernard Tupra. Deza finds himself forced to watch Tupra's collection of incriminating videotapes of important public figures. The recordings document unconventional private lives - and horrific acts. The scenes enter him like a poison, contaminating everything good, yet he is powerless to counteract them. Set against a background of brutality, Poison, Shadow and Farewell asks whether violence can ever be justified and completes the extraordinary journey that has led us on a descent into hell and a re-emergence, not entirely unscathed, into life.
"The final, and the most powerful, part of Javier Marias's monumental trilogyTogether the three volumes constitute one of the great novels in modern European literature... a triumph" -- Antony Beevor Sunday Telegraph "One of the most remarkable novels of our time, utterly compelling, as addictive as Proust... Marias blends fact and fiction seamlessly. He is marvellously observant and also inventive...One of the great works of modern European fiction" -- Allan Massie Scotsman, Books of the Year "Those who have followed Your Face Tomorrow through its first two volumes will find its conclusion, Poison, Shadow and Farewell, mesmerising. They will surely feel that it has been one of the defining reading experiences of their life and look forward to starting all over again" Literary Review "And with this triumphant finale - the longest and best of all three - it becomes impossible to resist the thought that this deeply strange creation...may very well be the first authentic literary masterpiece of the 21st century" -- James Lasdun The Guardian "An outstanding book that rounds off one of the most thoughtful and inspiring fictional works of the last decade" Independent
Javier Marias was born in 1951. He has published twelve novels, two collections of stories and a number of essay collections, winning a dazzling array of international literary awards. His work has been translated into 37 languages in 47 countries and more than six 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 has recently been nominated a member of the Real Academia de la Lengua Espanola. He lives in Madrid.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780099527084 |
| ISBN 10 | 0099527081 |
| Title | Your Face Tomorrow 3 |
| Author | Javier Marias |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Vintage Publishing |
| Year published | 2010-08-05 |
| Number of pages | 560 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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