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(0)Javier Marías
Author
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER • NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE FINALIST • From the award-winning, internationally bestselling Spanish author of A Heart So White comes an immersive, provocative novel propelled by a seemingly random murder.
"Sometimes startling, sometimes hilarious, and always intelligent ... Marías [has] a penetrating empathy."—The New York Times Book Review
Each day...
"Sometimes startling, sometimes hilarious, and always intelligent ... Marías [has] a penetrating empathy."—The New York Times Book Review
Each day...
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Madrid, 1980. Juan de Vere, nearly finished with his university degree, takes a job as personal assistant to Eduardo Muriel, an eccentric, once-successful film director. Urbane, discreet, irreproachable, Muriel is an irresistible idol to the young man. But Muriel's voluptuous wife, Beatriz, inhabits their home like an unwanted ghost; and on the periphery of their lives is Dr. Jorge Van Vechten, a family friend implicated in unsavory rumors that Muriel...
Author
Language
Español
Description
Publisher Annotation: Madrid, 1980. Juan de Vere, nearly finished with his university degree, takes a job as personal assistant to Eduardo Muriel, an eccentric, once-successful film director. Urbane, discreet, irreproachable, Muriel is an irresistible idol to the young man. But Muriel's voluptuous wife, Beatriz, inhabits their home like an unwanted ghost; and on the periphery of their lives is Dr. Jorge Van Vechten, a family friend implicated in unsavory...
5) Berta Isla
Author
Publisher
Alfaguara
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
Español
Description
Publisher Annotation: The new novel by Javier Marias.A typical day, ?a stupid day,? will determine the rest of their existence. The engrossing, thrilling story of waiting. ?For a while, she wasn?t sure if her husband was her husband. Sometimes she thought so, sometimes she thought not, and sometimes she decided not to believe anything and to keep living her life with him, or with that man who seemed like him, but older. But she had also become older...
Author
Publisher
Alfaguara
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
Español
Description
Publisher Annotation: After his acclaimed Berta Isla, comes Javier Marías’ long-awaited new novel. It is a mesmerizing intrigue that explores the underside of "Thou shalt not kill." Two men, one in fiction and one in reality, had the opportunity to kill Hitler before he unleashed World War II. Based on this fact, Javier Marías explores the basis of "You shalt not kill." As its narrator put it, "you can see that killing is not so extreme or so...
7) All souls
Author
Series
Publisher
New Directions
Pub. Date
2000.
Language
English
Description
A visiting professor from Spain takes a detached and darkly humorous view of life at England's Oxford University
Author
Publisher
Vintage Espanol una division de Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
Español
Description
Publisher Annotation: A new, exhilarating collection of critical and personal writings--spanning more than twenty years of work--from the internationally renowned author of The Infatuations and A Heart So White. Spain, 272pp.
Author
Language
English
Description
Madrid, 1980. Juan de Vere, nearly finished with his university degree, takes a job as personal assistant to Eduardo Muriel, an eccentric, once-successful film director. Urbane, discreet, irreproachable, Muriel is an irresistible idol to the young man. But Muriel's voluptuous wife, Beatriz, inhabits their home like an unwanted ghost; and on the periphery of their lives is Dr. Jorge Van Vechten, a family friend implicated in unsavory rumors that Muriel...
Author
Language
Deutsch
Description
Juan ist jung, lebenshungrig und filmbesessen. Sein größter Wunsch erfüllt sich, als ihm der berühmte Filmemacher Eduardo eine Assistenz anbietet. Juan gehört schon bald zur Familie und wird Zeuge der unglücklichen Ehe von Eduardo und Beatriz. Als sich ein Verhältnis zwischen Juan und Beatriz entspinnt, überschlagen sich die Ereignisse.
Jahre später schaut Juan zurück auf die Turbulenzen dieser Zeit, als Spaniens Demokratie ihren Anfang...