Books by Javier Marias

Book Synopsis''She was bored and fought against her boredom, which only bored her still more.''Five sparkling, irreverent brief portraits of famous literary figures (including libertines, eccentrics and rogues) from Spain''s greatest living writer.Penguin Modern: fifty new books celebrating the pioneering spirit of the iconic Penguin Modern Classics series, with each one offering a concentrated hit of its contemporary, international flavour. Here are authors ranging from Kathy Acker to James Baldwin, Truman Capote to Stanislaw Lem and George Orwell to Shirley Jackson; essays radical and inspiring; poems moving and disturbing; stories surreal and fabulous; taking us from the deep South to modern Japan, New York''s underground scene to the farthest reaches of outer space.

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Book SynopsisA Heart so White is the breathtaking international bestseller and IMPAC Award-winning masterpiece by Javier Marías, whose highly-anticipated new novel The Infatuations is published in 2013. This Penguin Modern Classics edition features a new Introduction by Jonathan Coe. A Heart so White begins as, In the middle of a family lunch Teresa, just married, goes to the bathroom, unbuttons her blouse and shoots herself in the heart. What made her kill herself immediately after her honeymoon? Years later, this mystery fascinates the young newlywed Juan, whose father was married to Teresa before he married Juan''s mother. As Juan edges closer to the truth, he begins to question his own relationships, and whether he really wants to know what happened. Haunting and unsettling, A Heart So White is a breathtaking portrayal of two generations, two marriages, the relentless power of the past and the terrible price of knowledge.Trade ReviewThe most subtle and gifted writer in contemporary Spanish literature * Boston Globe *I was enthralled * Marina Warner, Guardian *Marías' challenging and seductive technique reaches its pinnacle in A Heart So White * The New York Times *The work of a supreme stylist ... It is brilliantly done * James Woodall, The Times *As unique as it is brilliant... an entertaining and intelligent novel * Washington Post *

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Book SynopsisIn these short, capricious and irreverent portraits of twenty-six great writers, from Joyce to Nabokov, Sterne to Wilde, Javier Marías, winner of the Dublin IMPAC prize and author of the bestselling A Heart So White, throws unexpected, and very human, light on authors too often enshrined in the halo of artistic sainthood. Revealing that Conrad actually hated sailing and Emily Brontë was so tough she was known as ''The Major'', among many other stories of eccentricity, drunkenness and even murder, this joyful book uses unusual angles and peculiar details to illuminate writers'' lives in a new way.Javier Marías was born in Madrid in 1951. He has published ten novels, two collections of short stories and several volumes of essays. His work has been translated into thirty-two languages and won a dazzling array of international literary awards, including the prestigious Dublin IMPAC award for A Heart So White. He is also a highly practised translator into Spanish oTrade ReviewNo one else, anywhere, is writing quite like this * Daily Telegraph *Marias is a deeply necessary writer, a crusader, funny, pungent, full of wrath and love * Guardian *Anybody who doesn't read Marías is doomed * Nation *You are dazzled by the author's intelligence and understanding of human nature * Scotsman *

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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewPublisher's description. A spell-binding literary journey through the ancient and timeless maze of Venice. With characteristic thoughtfulness and elegance, Marías captures this city of contradictions, where glamour and squalor are layered one atop the other, and the truly native Venetians are a rare and elusive tribe. * Penguin *

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Book SynopsisAward-winning author Javier Marías weaves a darkly thrilling tale of love, betrayal and lives played out in the unhappy shadow of history 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 like an unwanted ghost, finding solace in other beds. And on the periphery of their lives stands Dr Jorge Van Vechten, a old family friend with a shadowy past. Juan enters eagerly into Muriel''s world of glamour and prestige, but as time passes he is troubled by many questions that seem to have no answer. Why does Muriel hate Beatriz? How did Beatriz meet Van Vechten? And what happened in the chaotic years after the war?As Juan learns more about his employers, his own iTrade ReviewPublisher's description. From one of Spain's most acclaimed literary voices comes a rich and complex portrait of mutual deception, toxic love and cruel, lingering guilt. A youth caught in the middle of someone else's bitter marriage; a beautiful woman scorned; a man torn between conscience and will. Step into the melancholic, unforgiving world of Javier Marías. * Penguin *Marías returns with another masterful tapestry of noir-ish twists and digressive cerebration * The Millions *Elegant and beautiful, reminiscent of Proust... Magnificent * Daily Mail *One of Marias's most enjoyable and accessible novels * Financial Times *Marias is relentless in his pursuit of literary and psychological truth * Sunday Times *Ferociously addictive, troubling [and] seductive... It works as high literary fiction, constantly picking apart our assumptions about story and fiction, but also offering good old-fashioned plot' * Independent *A powerful study of history and memory from a literary giant * Sunday Times *Easily as engrossing as anything he's written before... He manages to tread the tightrope between a very literary fiction and an utterly absorbing plot * The Times *Alfred Hitchcock would be a home with Marias - but so too might Harold Pinter...It's a rare trick to pull off, this combination of suspense, analysis and metaphysics that aims both high at the brow and low at the gut * Prospect *Almodóvar-esque * New York Magazine *On the page, he is expansive and unrestrained * New Yorker *A major work from a global talent, Thus Bad Begins knits Hitchcockian suspense into a hypnotic tale crackling with erotic tension and political strife... The personal is political, as Marías' powerful, wide-ranging, yet curiously intimate novel attests * Minneapolis Star-Tribune *Marías is a master of a kind of suspense that is rare in the modern novel * NY Times *Erudite, strange, hypnotic and beautiful...One reads Marías for his ability to make the smallest parts of the world come alive * LA Times *

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Book Synopsis''The most subtle and gifted writer in contemporary Spanish literature'' Boston Globe''No one else, anywhere, is writing quite like this'' Daily Telegraph A thrilling new literary offering from the acclaimed author of The Infatuations and A Heart So White''For a while, she wasn''t sure that her husband was her husband. Sometimes she thought he was, and sometimes not...''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. Tomás, half-Spanish and half-English, has an extraordinary gift for languages and accents. Leaving Berta to study at Oxford, he catches the interest of a certain government agency, and its mysterious agent, Bertram Tupra. Tomás is determined to evade the agent''s attentions but his fate is sealed by an escalating series of events that will affect the rest of his life - and that of his beloved Berta. Finishing his time at Oxford, he returns to Madrid to marry her, already knowing that the life they planned has been lost forever.Darkly gripping, Berta Isla examines a relationship condemned to secrecy and concealment, to pretence and conjecture, to resentment mingled with loyalty. With meticulous insight and understanding of the human soul, Marías examines the urge to change our destiny, and the hopeless exile we bring upon ourselves.Trade ReviewMarías weaves a thrilling and desolate meditation on the psychic costs of the deep state's dark arts. * 1843 Magazine *Magical...finest novel to date * Alex Clark *Compelling * Tatler *A twisty, thought-provoking tale that puts notions of truth and morality under pitiless scrutiny * The Guardian *elegant, discursive, persuasively vivid novel...powerful and indelible * The National *

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Book Synopsis''Unquestionably the most significant Spanish writer of his generation ... Your Face Tomorrow is rich, haunting, intriguing'' Observer''This trilogy must be one of the greatest novels of our age'' Antony Beevor''Fear is the greatest force that exists, as long as you can adapt to it''Jacques Deza has been recruited into an undercover spy network by the inscrutable Bertram Tupra. But when he is forced to witness an act of horrifying brutality in a night-club, he finds himself falling apart, haunted by his own memories of the bloodshed of the Spanish Civil War. As Deza tries to disentangle himself from an increasingly disturbing world, the second volume in Javier Marias'' magnificent trilogy explores violence, corruption and what we are capable of.Translated by Margaret Jull CostaTrade ReviewOne of contemporary literature's major works... You have to open this book -- Ali SmithFantastically funny... As a practitioner of the novel, Marías has few peers at the moment...Marías is a deeply necessary writer, a crusader, funny, pungent, full of wrath and love * Guardian *Unquestionably the most significant Spanish writer of his generation... Your Face Tomorrow is a rich, haunting, intriguing, sometimes frustrating meditation on the significance of our lives that also shines an unforgiving light on a too-often forgotten bloodshed * Observer *By turns ebullient, snappish, lyrical, self-delighting and chilling... Marías's fiercely perceptive novels are among the best work being produced anywhere at the moment * Independent on Sunday *

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Book SynopsisTomorrow in the Battle Think on Me is a gripping and moving meditation on the hold that the dead have over the living, by Javier Marías, whose highly-anticipated new novel The Infatuations is published in 2013. Víctor, a ghostwriter, is just about to have an affair with Marta, a married woman, when - in the bedroom, half-undressed - she drops dead in his arms. He panics and slips away. But Marta''s family are all too aware that she was not alone when she died, and Deán, the widowed husband, is determined to find out who was sharing her bed that night. Víctor, accustomed to a life of pretending, finds that he cannot live in the shadows forever.Trade ReviewMarías writes with elegance, wit and masterful suspense * The Times Literary Supplement *The narrative runs like a psychological thriller, with macabre and comic interludes: the narrator handles it as a master of artistry and ambiguity * Independent on Sunday *Compelling, brilliant, perceptive, startling * Washington Post *

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Book SynopsisDark Back of Time is a compelling story of the way in which reality blurs into fiction by Javier Marías, whose highly-anticipated new novel The Infatuations is published in 2013. It is translated by Esther Allen in Penguin Modern Classics. ''We lose everything because everything remains except us'', says the mysterious narrator of this extraordinary novel, which meditates on the transience, chance and fragility of life. As a man called Javier Marías recalls the strange events and people that shaped his past, including ghostly literary figures, a pilot, an adventurer, a brother who died as a child and the king of an island in the Caribbean, we begin to question the nature of time, memory and reality itself. Here the writer is both a keeper of memories and a purveyor of illusions, destined to be lost in the dark back of time.Javier Marías was born in Madrid in 1951. He has published ten novels, two collections of short stories and several volumes of essayTrade ReviewDark Back of Time is one of the best Spanish novels of the twentieth century * Julia Ortega, Brown University *It leaves you with an impression of having been haunted: the most complex, perfect and outstanding of Marias' novels * Reforma *Neither essay nor novel, Javier Marías' most recent book is, quite simply, magnificent. As a book, it is funny, even hilarious, and at times profound, obsessive, and overwhelming. * Le Monde *The author knows how to dive into the formidable chasms of life, fate and death * El Pais *I was enthralled by his strange mix of made-up memories, lost experiences and real-life fantasies -- Marina Warner * Guardian *Shows sensitivity in exploring an entire shadowland of human experience just beyond the reach of words, and could be said to be a culminating point in the author's career * The Times Literary Supplement *

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Book SynopsisThe Man of Feeling is a story of love and memory by Javier Marías, whose highly-anticipated new novel The Infatuations is published in 2013.On a train journey from Paris to Madrid a young opera singer becomes fascinated by those in his compartment: a middle-aged businessman, his alluring wife and their male travelling companion. Soon his life of constant travel, luxury hotels, rehearsal and performance will become entangled with these three people, and the singer will find himself fatefully consumed by Natalia''s beauty. The Man of Feeling is the haunting story of the birth and death of a passion, told in retrospect. Intricately interweaving desire and memory, it explores the nature of love, and asks whether we can ever truly recall something that no longer exists.Trade ReviewMarías is one of the best contemporary writers * J. M. Coetzee *Stylish, cerebral ... Marías is a startling talent * The New York Times *

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Book SynopsisIn the dark narratives that make up When I Was Mortal by Javier Marías, winner of the Dublin IMPAC prize and author of the bestselling A Heart So White, a dapper Paris doctor dispenses a treatment for dissatisfied wives. A mother auditions for her first porn movie. A writer working on a study of pain makes himself the subject of his experiments. A voyeur mistakes a murderer for a fellow peeping tom ... these are some of the characters observed by the narrator of these chilling stories. Ironic, unsettling, imbued with dread and with droll humour, Javier Marías'' short tales cast a shrewd, sardonic eye on humanity.Javier Marías was born in Madrid in 1951. He has published ten novels, two collections of short stories and several volumes of essays. His work has been translated into thirty-two languages and won a dazzling array of international literary awards, including the prestigious Dublin IMPAC award for A Heart So White. He is also a highly practised tr

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Book SynopsisThe Infatuations is a critically acclaimed novel by the great Spanish writer Javier Marías.Every day, Maria Dolz stops for breakfast at the same café. 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.It is only later, when she comes across a newspaper photograph of the man, lying stabbed in the street, his shirt half off, that she discovers who the couple are. Some time afterwards, when the woman returns to the café with her children, who are then collected by a different man, and Maria approaches her to offer her condolences, an entanglement begins which sheds new light on this apparently random, pointless death.With The Infatuations, Javier Marías brilliantly reimagines the murder novel as a metaphysical enquiry, addressing existential questions of life, death, love and morality.Praise for The Infatuations:''MesmerisingTrade ReviewMesmerising . . . 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 *

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Book SynopsisAll Souls is a compelling black comedy of Oxford life by Javier Marías, whose highly-anticipated new novel The Infatuations is published in 2013. This Penguin Modern Classics edition features a new Introduction by John Banville, author of The Sea.The pretty young tutor Clare Bayes attracts many eyes at an Oxford college dinner, not least those of a visiting Spanish lecturer (desperate to escape his conversation with an obese economist about an eighteenth-century cider tax). As they begin an affair, meeting in hotel bedrooms away from the eyes of Clare''s husband, the Spaniard finds himself increasingly drawn into the strange world of Oxford, ''one of the cities in the world where the least work gets done'', in a story of lust, loneliness, vanity and memory. Filled with brilliant set pieces and pin-sharp observation, All Souls is a masterpiece of black humour.Trade ReviewA dazzling example of the Oxford novel, with all the ingenuity and the humour and the nostalgia we could hope for * The Times Literary Supplement *Probably the wittiest novel set in British academia since David Lodge's Changing Places * Daily Mail *An intelligent and well written book with exceptionally funny set pieces * The Indepdent on Sunday *

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Book Synopsis''Your Face Tomorrow is already being compared with Proust and rightly so'' Observer''One of contemporary literature''s major works ... you have to open this book'' Ali SmithThe concluding part in Javier Marías'' spy trilogy masterwork Jacques Deza is back in London and once again working for the secret intelligence agency run by Bertram 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.Trade ReviewYour Face Tomorrow is already being compared with Proust and rightly so. It is a novel of extraordinary subtlety and pathos. The next thing Marias deserves is the Nobel Prize * Observer *

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Book SynopsisEL ÚLTIMO LIBRO DE ARTÍCULOS DE JAVIER MARÍAS:UNO DE LOS COLUMNISTAS MÁS BRILLANTES, UN ESCRITOR FUNDAMENTAL DE LA LITERATURA CONTEMPORÁNEA EN ESPAÑOLMarías es sencillamente asombroso.Ali SmithJavier Marías es un escritor maravilloso.John BanvilleQuien no lea a Marías está condenado.The NationEste volumen reúne los últimos setenta y cinco artículos publicados por Javier Marías en el suplemento dominical El País Semanal entre el 31 de enero de 2021 y el 11 de septiembre de 2022.Javier Marías empezó a escribir en El País Semanal en 2003 y durante casi dos décadas compartió sus reflexiones sobre la actualidad, así como sus recuerdos y aficiones, sus lealtades personales y culturales.Algunas tristezas nunca se pasan y algunas personas nunca se olvidan, recuerda al comienzo del artículo que da título a este libro, en el que rememora a su amigo Juan Benet, y afirma que prolongamos la vida de aquellos que nos marcaron a base de preguntarnos qué habrían pensado de lo que hoy sucede.Los lectores de Marías se plantean hoy, igual que hace él, qué habría escrito respecto a muchos de los sucesos ocurridos en el mundo desde que ya no está. Sí, nos falta su mirada sobre los hechos del presente.El tono grave y la guasa conviven cuando trata temas como la ineptitud de los políticos, la maledicencia en las redes sociales, las actitudes irresponsables en pandemia, el deterioro en el uso de la lengua castellana, los smartphones como instrumentos de vigilancia y control... A estas piezas se suman otras sobre aspectos más personales y sus pasiones: el fútbol, el cine y las series, los libros, la música. Y los desternillantes cuentos que intercaló, protagonizados por personajes peculiares. Aunque sus aventuras quedaron inacabadas, gracias a la prosa magistral del autor dejan poso en la memoria del lector y no se olvidan.Sobre el autor se ha dicho:Siempre que leo a Marías tengo la sensación que estoy escuchando una sinfonía.Julia Navarro, Hoy por HoyMarías escribe como siempre, como nadie, [...] porque está a otra cosa, a elevarnos, a hacer -por qué no- con nosotros lo que Shakespeare hizo con su tiempo y las gentes de su tiempo.Alberto Olmos, El ConfidencialSea lo que sea que creamos que vaya a suceder mientras leemos, estamos eligiendo pasar tiempo en compañía de un autor. En el caso de Javier Marías, se trata de una buena decisión; su mente es profunda, aguda, a veces chocante, a veces hilarante, y siempre inteligente.Edward St. Aubyn, New York Times Book Review Estamos ante un escritor que ha asimilado a la perfección aquella técnica del fragmento de vida, la secuencia temporal, que nos legara el gran Maupassant, y reelaborase para la modernidad el mismísimo Faulkner.Jesús Ferrer, La RazónJavier Marías puede bien ser el más grande novelista sobre la tierra [...] Está destinado a ganar el Premio Nobel de Literatura en algún momento, así que mejor asegurarse de que uno tiene algo que decir cuando eso ocurra.Benjamin Eastham, The SpectatorMarías posee una infrecuente capacidad para hechizar la imaginación de sus lectores. Es más que un mero cuentista: es un manipulador del alma que puede arrojar a sus lectores a nuevos estados de percepción. Toda una hazaña para cualquier escritor.New York Journal of Books

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Book SynopsisUn libro sobre el estado de enamoramiento, que parece justificar todas las cosas.Mejor libro del año 2011 según Babelia.La última vez que vi a Miguel Desvern o Deverne fue también la última que lo vio su mujer, Luisa, lo cual no dejó de ser extraño y quizá injusto, ya que ella era eso, su mujer, y yo era en cambio una desconocida...Así comienza Los enamoramientos, la nueva novela de Javier Marías, consagrado como uno de los mejores novelistas contemporáneos. María Dolz, la narradora y protagonista, sólo supo su nombre cuando apareció su foto en el periódico, apuñalado y medio descamisado y a punto de convertirse en un muerto: lo último de lo que se debió de dar cuenta fue de que lo acuchillaban por confusión y sin causa.Con una prosa profunda y cautivadora, esta novela reflexiona sobre el estado de enamoramiento, considerado casi universalmente como algo positivo e incluso redentor a veces, tanto que parece justificar casi todas las cosas:

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Book SynopsisEl nuevo libro de artículos de Javier MaríasUna mirada incómoda, certera y brillante sobre la sociedad de hoyEste volumen reúne los noventa y cinco artículos publicados por Javier Marías en el suplemento dominical El País Semanal entre el 3 de febrero de 2019 y el 24 de enero de 2021.«Han caducado los tiempos en que la gente se tomaba en serio la promesa hecha, la palabra dada, que todavía los niños de mi infancia llamaban “palabra de honor”. Somos una sociedad “desenfadada” y además lo tenemos a gala (bueno, en todo lo demás muy enfadada)», dice Javier Marías en uno de los artículos de este libro.En una época en la que la realidad se muestra insistente, repetitiva y tozuda, el autor invita a sus lectores, en cada una de las piezas recogidas en ¿Será buena persona el cocinero?,

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Book SynopsisPremio de la Crítica - Premio Dulce Chacón de Narrativa Española - Premio Lettura 2018 de Il Corriere della Sera (Italia)Mejor libro del año según Babelia (El País).Seleccionado entre los mejores libros del año en ABC Cultural y La Vanguardia y recomendado por El Periódico y La Razón.Un día cualquiera, un día estúpido, condicionará el resto de su existencia.Berta Isla es la envolvente y apasionante historia de una espera.Durante un tiempo no estuvo segura de si su marido era su marido. A veces creía que sí, a veces creía que no, y a veces decidía no creer nada y seguir viviendo su vida con él, o con aquel hombre semejante a él, mayor que él. Pero también ella se había hecho mayor por su cuenta, en su ausencia, era muy joven cuando se casó. Muy jóvenes se conocieron Berta Isla y Tomás Nevinson en Madrid, y muy pronta fue su determinación de pasar la vida juntos, sin sospe

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Book SynopsisVeinte biografías de genios de la literatura y de cinco mujeres excepcionales.Con aprecio cuando no con claro afecto, pero también con ironía y guasa, Javier Marías construye su particular retrato de escritores como Faulkner, Conrad, Conan Doyle, Nabokov, Henry James o Sterne, por los que nunca ha ocultado su admiración. Mediante breves esbozos de su intimidad y la revelación de detalles no siempre conocidos, asistimos a las manías a veces desternillantes a veces inquietantes, así como a la grandeza y, en algún caso, pequeñez de una serie de creadores por una vez convertidos en personajes. Al conjunto de caballeros (o no tanto) se unen cinco mujeres fugitivas asimismo personas reales que, cada una a su manera, decidieron no transitar por los caminos trillados previstos para ellas por su época y por su género. Como colofón y contrapunto a la palabra escrita, en Artistas perfectos el lector puede observar la imagen real de los retratados en un material gráfico extraordinario perteneciente a la colección particular del autor. Una maravilla que exige lecturas y relecturas. ANTÓN CASTRO, El Periódico Javier Marías también impresiona como ensayista. MARTINA MEISTER, Frankfurter Rundscha.Javier Marías (Madrid, 1951) es autor de Los dominios del lobo, Travesía del horizonte, El monarca del tiempo, El siglo, El hombre sentimental (Premio Ennio Flaiano), Todas las almas (Premio Ciudad de Barcelona), Corazón tan blanco (Premio de la Crítica, Prix lOeil et la Lettre, IMPAC Dublin Literary Award), Mañana en la batalla piensa en mí (Premio Fastenrath, Premio Rómulo Gallegos, Prix Femina Étranger, Premio Mondello di Palermo), Negra espalda del tiempo, de los tres volúmenes de Tu rostro mañana:1 Fiebre y lanza (Premio Salambó), 2 Baile y sueño, 3 Veneno y sombra y adiós, y de Los enamoramientos (Premio Qué Leer); de las semblanzas Vidas escritas y Miramientos; de relatos y de la antología Cuentos únicos; de sendos homenajes a Faulkner y Nabokov y de diecisiete colecciones de artículos y ensayos. En 1997 recibió el premio Nelly Sachs, en Dortmund; en 1998, el Premio Comunidad de Madrid; en 2000, los Premios Grinzane Cavour, en Turín, y Alberto Moravia, en Roma; en 2008 los Premios Alessio, en Turín, y José Donoso en Chile; en 2010 The American Award, en los Estados Unidos; en 2011, el Premio Nonino, en Udine, y el Premio de Literatura Europea de Austria; y, en 2012, el Premio Terenci Moix, todos ellos por el conjunto de su obra. Entre sus traducciones destaca Tristram Shandy (Premio Nacional de Traducción 1979). Fue profesor en la Universidad de Oxford y en la Complutense de Madrid. Sus obras se han publicado en cuarenta y dos lenguas y en cincuenta y dos países, con más de seis millones de ejemplares vendidos.Es miembro de la Real Academia Española.

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Book SynopsisUna de las grandes pasiones del autor, el fútbol, presentada como ejercicio de nostalgia, inteligencia, pasión y reflexión.El vínculo entre literatos y fútbol no es cosa reciente. Ha sido corroborado por algunos escritores no sólo con sus escritos, sino también con la acción. Camus y Nabokov fueron porteros en su juventud, y el segundo afirmó que todo lo que sabía de la moral humana lo había aprendido del fútbol. Javier Marías es otro de los autores que nunca ha negado su afición, y que incluso jugó de extremo izquierdo cuando era niño. Este deporte ha sido el tema de muchos de sus artículos y de varios de sus cuentos, un territorio mítico donde recuperar la infancia, un lugar en el que las ambigüedades no tienen cabida, donde, según Paul Ingendaay, editor y antólogo de la selección de textos que componen Salvajes y sentimentales , las cosas están claras y el autor se siente seguro de sus pasiones y sus recuerdos. El fútbol, a ojos del niño Javier, y de hecho de cualquier niño, es u

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Book SynopsisEl cierre definitivo de la obra cumbre de Javier Marías.Recapitulación, en este tercer volumen, de parte del segundo viaje de Jacobo Deza a Inglaterra, cuenta también la historia de su padre, traicionado por un amigo durante la Guerra Civil, y la de sir Peter Wheeler, que entiende como nadie que lo mejor es guardar silencio y no decir nada. Impera el callar y no contar la historia hasta que sea necesario contarla y no antes, nunca antes. Prueba de la formidable potencia literaria de su autor, Veneno y sombra y adiós es el cierre extraordinario a una novela inmensa, polifacética y deliciosa sobre la venganza, la traición, la mentira, los secretos, la violencia, y el poderoso arte de contar.Javier Marías (Madrid, 1951) es autor de Los dominios del lobo, Travesía del horizonte, El monarca del tiempo, El siglo, El hombre sentimental (Premio Ennio Flaiano), Todas las almas (Premio Ciudad de Barcelona), Corazón tan blanco (Premio de la Crítica, Prix lOeil et la Lettre, IMPAC Dublin Literary Award), Mañana en la batalla piensa en mí (Premio Fastenrath, Premio Rómulo Gallegos, Prix Femina Étranger, Premio Mondello di Palermo), Negra espalda del tiempo, de los tres volúmenes de Tu rostro mañana:1 Fiebre y lanza (Premio Salambó), 2 Baile y sueño, 3 Veneno y sombra y adiós, y de Los enamoramientos (Premio Qué Leer); de las semblanzas Vidas escritas y Miramientos; de relatos y de la antología Cuentos únicos; de sendos homenajes a Faulkner y Nabokov y de diecisiete colecciones de artículos y ensayos. En 1997 recibió el premio Nelly Sachs, en Dortmund; en 1998, el Premio Comunidad de Madrid; en 2000, los Premios Grinzane Cavour, en Turín, y Alberto Moravia, en Roma; en 2008 los Premios Alessio, en Turín, y José Donoso en Chile; en 2010 The American Award, en los Estados Unidos; en 2011, el Premio Nonino, en Udine, y el Premio de Literatura Europea de Austria; y, en 2012, el Premio Terenci Moix, todos ellos por el conjunto de su obra. Entre sus traducciones destaca Tristram Shandy (Premio Nacional de Traducción 1979). Fue profesor en la Universidad de Oxford y en la Complutense de Madrid. Sus obras se han publicado en cuarenta y dos lenguas y en cincuenta y dos países, con más de seis millones de ejemplares vendidos.Es miembro de la Real Academia Española.

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Book Synopsis''Your Face Tomorrow is already being compared with Proust and rightly so'' Observer''One of contemporary literature''s major works ... you have to open this book'' Ali Smith''I am myself my own fever and pain''Jacques Deza has been told he has a gift: he can see through people; guess just from their faces what will become of them. When he encounters the enigmatic Bertram Tupra at a party, Deza is persuaded to join a mysterious underground group. His task: to observe an assortment of people - politicians, celebrities, seemingly ordinary citizens - and predict their next move. But where will Deza''s descent into this twilight world eventually take him? The first part of Javier Marias'' masterly trilogy asks how well we truly know and understand those around us.Translated by Margaret Jull CostaTrade ReviewYou are dazzled by the author's intelligence and understanding of human nature * Scotsman *Your Face Tomorrow is already being compared with Proust and rightly so. It is a novel of extraordinary subtlety and pathos. The next thing Marias deserves is the Nobel Prize * Observer *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 * Sunday Times *

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