Berta Isla and Tomás Nevinson meet in Madrid. Young and in love, they quickly decide to spend their lives together - never suspecting that they will grow to be total strangers, both living under the shadow of disappearances.
A Marías sentence is a place of infinite richness and surprises full of fascinating byways and glimpses of a distant landscape that hoves into view and then fades away Independent
Javier Marías is the author of sixteen works in Spanish, which have been translated into forty-five languages including English. His translated English works are All Souls, A Heart So White, Tomorrow in the Battle Think on Me, When I Was Mo
Javier Marías is the author of sixteen works in Spanish, which have been translated into forty-five languages including English. His translated English works are All Souls, A Heart So White, Tomorrow in the Battle Think on Me, When I Was Mo
Five sparkling, irreverent brief portraits of famous literary figures (including libertines, eccentrics and rogues) from Spain's greatest living writer.
As a young man Juan de Vere takes a job that will haunt him for the rest of his life. Hi employer is Eduardo Muriel: a famous film director sophisticated and discreet. Muriel's wife Beatriz is a soft ripe woman who slips through her husband's home...
An essential companion for every traveller to Venice, this is the hidden city revealed in a gorgeous non-fiction account by one of Europe's greatest living writers, Javier MarÃas
In these short, capricious and irreverent portraits of twenty-six great writers, from Joyce to Nabokov, Sterne to Wilde, Javier MarÃas, winner of the Dublin IMPAC prize and author of the bestselling A Heart So White, throws unexpected, and...
In To Begin at the Beginning , celebrated Spanish novelist and translator Javier MarÃas explores his impulse to write, the origins of his own family, and the connection between these two different sorts of beginnings. Exploring the difference...
Twelve short stories by "the most subtle and gifted writer in contemporary Spanish literature" ( The Boston Globe )âand the award-winning, international bestselling author of The Infatuations .