Your Face Tomorrow by Javier Marias
Recently divorced, Jacques Deza moves from Madrid to London in order to distance himself from his ex-wife and children. There he picks up old friendships from his Oxford University days, particularly Sir Peter Wheeler, retired don and semi-retired spy. It is at an Oxford party of Wheeler's that Jacques is approached by the enigmatic Bertram Tupra.
You are dazzled by the author's intelligence and understanding of human nature Scotsman Your Face Tomorrow is already being compared with Proust and rightly soIt is a novel of extraordinary subtlety and pathos. The next thing Marias deserves is the Nobel Prize. Observer Marias is one of the best minds in fiction today.His is an experimental kind of writing, a thinking on the page, unlike anything else now.In Your Face Tomorrow, it produces another work of urgent originality Independent He has as gift for the wickedly comic set piece...He seems incapable of writing a thoughtless or throwaway sentence.We need more novelists like Marias Independent on Sunday An intriguing and audacious experiment. I look foward to the next volume Sunday Times
Javier Marias was born in 1951. He has published ten 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 thirty-four languages and more than five million copies of his books have been sold worldwide
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| ISBN 13 | 9780099461999 |
| ISBN 10 | 0099461994 |
| Title | Your Face Tomorrow |
| Author | Javier Marias |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Vintage Publishing |
| Year published | 2010-10-07 |
| Number of pages | 384 |
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