Product Description: A married woman, whose husband is in London, invites another man, whom she hardly knows, for dinner. In her house a two-year-old boy is sleeping. Finally, when the man approaches her after dinner, the woman is feeling ill. She dies before ever becoming his lover...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Victor Frances, un escritor frustrado que presta su pluma a otros, es invitado a cenar a casa de Marta Tellez, una hermosa mujer casada a la que apenas conoce y cuyo marido esta de viaje en Londres. La noche promete pero, antes de poder consumar el adulterio, Marta comienza a sentirse mal y muere...read more

Product Description: Book annotation not available for this title.Title: Tu rostro manana/ Your Face TomorrowAuthor: Marias, Javier/ Pittarello, Elide (CON)Publisher: Random House SpanishPublication Date: 2009/11/03Number of Pages: 357Binding Type: PAPERBACKLibrary of Congress:

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Product Description: With this much-anticipated third and last volume of Tu rostro mañana, the work is hailed as one of the literary highlights of our time. The novel kicks off with the premise that the death of another, any other be it our workmate, brother, father, lover, yes, even our child, is preferable to our own...read more

Product Description: A book unlike any other, a daring experiential unfolding Spanish masterpiece, Your Face Tomorrow now leaps into uncharted new territory in Volume Two: Dance and Dream.Your Face Tomorrow, Javier Marias's dazzling unfolding magnum opus, is a novel in three parts, which began with Volume One: Fever and Spear...read more

Product Description: An affectionate and very funny gallery of twenty great world authors from the pen of "the most subtle and gifted writer in contemporary Spanish literature" (The Boston Globe). In addition to his own busy career as "one of Europe's most intriguing contemporary writers" (TLS), Javier Marías is also the translator into Spanish of works by Hardy, Stevenson, Conrad, Faulkner, Nabokov, and Laurence Sterne...read more

Product Description: Voyage Along the Horizon revolves around an intrepid expedition: the eccentric, wealthy Captain Kerrigan, an attractive man with a shadowy past, organizes a trip to Antarctica for a select group of writers, artists, and scientists...read more

Pocos meses despues de su viaje de novios y sin aun haber podido, o querido, adaptarse a su cambio de estado, Juan Ranz se entera casi sin querer de que Teresa, la primera mujer de su padre, se quito la vida al regreso de su propia luna de miel. Solo una persona conoce el porque y ha guardado durante anos ese oscuro secreto. A partir de ese momento, el narrador sentira un creciente malestar, ""presentimientos de desastrerespecto a su recien inaugurado matrimonio. Una extraordinaria novela sobre el secreto y su posible conveniencia; sobre la instigacion y la sospecha que, poco a poco, van tinendo los corazones tan blancos hasta que estos dejan de serlo. Merecedora del Premio de la Critica 1993, del Prix I Oeil et la Lettre 1993, y del Premio Internacional de Literatura IMPAC de Dublin 1997, Corazon tan blanco ha sido considerada unanimente por la criticia nacional e internacional como uno de los libros perdurables de la literatura contemporanea. ""Es una novela tan brillante que no hay ninguna en la actualidad que pueda compararsele.

Publicada por primera vez a los 19 anos, Los dominios del lobo es la primera novela de Javier Marias. La accion transcurre enteramente en EE.UU y los personajes son asimismo americanos, y esa America retratada es una divertida parodia y a la vez un homenaje al cine de los anos dorados de Hollywood. Esta novela, con su estructura atrevida y fragmentada, su desparpajo inventivo, su intencionada utilizacion del topico y su aplicacion de una tecnica narrativa que no elude la truculencia, se adelanto a su epoca y, vista desde hoy, se erige como una obra precursora de la mas viva literatura actual. Partiendo de la aparatosa desintegracion de la famila Taeger en 1922, el autor nos ofrece una verdadera catarata de aventuras trepidantes que cubren toda una gama de generos: desde la novela negra hasta el melodrama, desde el relato de pasiones rurales hasta la guerra de Secesion, desde la intriga policiaca hasta las guerras de gangsters de los anos treinta o el exotismo del profundo sur.

Newly married Juan Ranz digs into his family's troubled past, beginning with the suicide of his father's first wife, Juan's aunt, and finds parallels in his relationships marked by miscommunication and the need for human contact. (General Fiction)

After traveling to England, Jaime discovers that he is blessed--or cursed--with the precognitive ability to see what people will do in the future, both the good and the evil. (General Fiction)

Offers a collection of short stories written between 1991 and 1995, most of which were created on commission, and reflect the ways the author responded to the challenges of length and theme which were set for him.

Product Description: "El hombre sentimental is a love story in which love is not seen nor lived, but calls out and remembers," says Javier Marías in this novel's epilogue. León de Nápoles, a famous opera singer, narrates a story that took place four years ago while he was in Madrid rehearsing for Otello de Verdi...read more

Presents eleven short stories in which reality and fantasy intertwine, including works by such modern Spanish and Latin American authors as Jorge Luis Borges, Cristina Fernâandez Cubas, Carlos Fuentes, and Ana Marâia Matute.

Product Description: Este volumen recoge la mayoría de las piezas sobre asuntos literarios que Javier Marías ha ido escribiendo a lo largo de los años, desde extensos ensayos como «Fragmento y enigma y espantoso azar» hasta artículos más breves como los de la deliciosa Serie inglesa, en la que se nos habla de la extraña muerte en México del escritor Wilfrid Ewart, las misteriosas sociedades literarias, los fantasmas que no saben leer o los inverosímiles libreros de viejo de Gran Bretaña...read more

Product Description: A married woman whose husband is in London, invites another man for dinner. The woman is feeling ill and she dies before ever becoming the man's lover. What do to with the corpse? ''Javier Marias writes with elegance, with wit and with masterful suspense, and yet for all this assurance, it is the profound ontological uncertainty at the heart of his work which makes it at once so unsettling and so true''-Michael Kerrigan, The Times Literary Supplement...read more

Product Description: A lost bullet, a tragedy in Havana, a mercenary-pilot, a one-eyed man, and the memories of a narrator all play a part in the mysterious masterpiece. Everuthing fits into this world, the unthinkable and what destiny brings.

Set at Oxford University, the young tutor Clare Bayes attracted the eyes of a visiting Spanish lecturer, and the two begin an affair, unbeknownst to Clare's husband, but they carelessly leave behind evidence of the adultery.