Javier Marías

Edici n limitada del estuche que recopila los tres vol menes de la obra m s monumental de Javier Mar as: Tu rostro ma ana Contiene: Fiebre y lanza; Baile y sue o; Veneno y sombra y adi s En las tres novelas que componen esta monumental serie, el misterioso Jaime, Jacobo, Jacques o Jack Deza, que trabaja para el servicio secreto brit nico, se dedica a «escuchar y fijarse e interpretar y contar , intuir si quienes tiene delante ser n v ctimas o verdugos, ser n capaces de morir o de matar. Al cabo de encuentros con personajes no menos huidizos que l mismo, Deza se encontrar en una encrucijada que le provocar el deseo de abandonar su colaboraci n con el servicio secreto brit nico, y terminar por desvelar el rostro futuro de quienes lo han acompa ado hasta ahora y sobre todo el suyo propio, as como las traiciones que irremisiblemente nos depara nuestro presente, nuestro mundo. ENGLISH DESCRIPTION The three volumes of Javier Mar as's masterpiece Your Face Tomorrow, in a shrinkwrapped paperback set. Few books in recent decades have excited the interest of readers and the raves of reviewers like Javier Mar as's Your Face Tomorrow "This brilliant trilogy must be one of the greatest novels of our age" (Antony Beevor, The London Sunday Telegraph). Now available complete―all three paperback volumes in a shrinkwrapped set―Your Face Tomorrow in its full trilogy, one of the greatest literary masterpieces of our time. In Volume 1, Fever and Spear, Mar as returns us to the rarified world of Oxford (the delightful setting of his All Souls and Dark Back of Time), while introducing us to territory entirely new―espionage. Our hero, Jaime Deza, separated from his wife in Madrid, is a bit adrift in London until his old friend Sir Peter Wheeler―retired Oxford don and semi-retired master spy―recruits him for a new career in British Intelligence. Deza possesses a rare gift for seeing behind the masks people wear. He is soon observing interviews conducted by Her Majesty's secret service: variously shady international businessmen one day, would-be coup leaders the next. Seductively, this metaphysical thriller explores past, present, and future in the ever-more-perilous 21st century. This compelling and enigmatic tour de force from one of Europe's greatest writers continues with Volume 2, Dance and Dream. The book now takes a wild swerve in this new volume. Skillfully constructed around a central perplexing and mesmerizing scene in a nightclub, Dance and Dream again features Deza, who discovers the dark side of his new employer when Tupra, his spy-master boss, brings out a sword and uses it in a way that appalls Deza: "You can't just go around hurting and killing people like that." "'Why not' asks Tupra." Searching meditations on favors and jealousy, knowledge and the deep human desire not to know, violence and death play against memories of the Spanish Civil War as Deza's world becomes increasingly murky. Volume 3, Poison, Shadow, and Farewell, with its heightened tensions between meditations and noir narrative, with its wit and and ever deeper forays into the mysteries of consciousness, brings to a stunning finale Mar as's trilogy. Acclaimed as "exquisite" (Publishers Weekly), "gorgeous" (Kirkus), and "outstanding: another work of urgent originality" (London Independent). Poison, Shadow, and Farewell takes our hero Jaime Deza―hired by MI6 as a person of extraordinarily sophisticated powers of perception―back to Madrid to both spy on and try to protect his own family, and into new depths of love and loss, with a fluency on the subject of death that could make a stone weep.

Un volumen que coloca a Mar as entre los maestros del g nero, entre Cort zar, Salinger, Poe o el primer Capote. Mientras ellas duermen, t tulo a su vez de uno de los relatos de este volumen, sirve para definir el hilo conductor de los restantes, cuyos protagonistas parecen situados en el espacio indeterminado de la vigilia, en la irrealidad del sue o. La galer a de personajes trazados por Mar as es, de nuevo, inigualable: un fantasma de los a os treinta a n no ahuyentado; un capit n del ej rcito de Napole n durante la campa a de Rusia; el Le n de N poles, protagonista de El hombre sentimental, cuando era ni o; dos dobles que har n la vida imposible a sus originales; una belleza tan irreal que s lo puede permanecer en la muerte, o un mayordomo neoyorquino encerrado en un ascensor. ENGLISH DESCRIPTION A dozen unforgettable stories by "one of the most original writers at work today" (Wyatt Mason, The New York Times Book Review). Slippery figures in anomalous situations ― ghosts, spies, bodyguards, criminals ― haunt these stories by Javier Mar as: the characters come bearing their strange and special secrets, and never leave our minds. In one story, a man obsessed with his much younger lover endlessly videotapes her every move, and then confides his surprising plans for her. In another, a ghost can't stop resigning from his job. Masterfully, Mar as manages in a small space to perplex and delight. "The short story fits Mar as like a glove," as Le Point noted. His stories have been hailed as "formidably intelligent" (The London Review of Books), "a bracing tonic" (Chicago Tribune), and "startling" (The New York Times Book Review).

Berta Isla och Tomás Nevinson träffas i Madrid. De blir förälskade och drömmer om ett liv tillsammans. Så ger sig Tomás av till England för att studera språk i Oxford. Där blir han motvilligt indragen i underrättelseverksamhet, som kommer att påverka hans liv med Berta för alltid. De gifter sig, men gradvis, medan åren går och hemligheterna växer, blir de främlingar för varandra.Berta Isla är den hyllade uppföljaren till Javier Mariás magnum opus Ditt ansikte i morgon. Hos Marías blandas spionromanens ramverk med djupt existentiella frågor som rör lögnerna i våra liv, allt förmedlat i en litterär gestaltning som bär en mästares signum. ”Den stora nittonhundratalsromanen lever och spanske Javier Marías är beviset”, skrev Victor Malm i Expressen om Ditt ansikte i morgon.

«Matar no es tan extremo ni tan dif cil e injusto si se sabe a qui n. Tras la aclamada Berta Isla, llega la nueva y esperada novela de Javier Mar as.Una intriga absorbente que explora el env s del «No matar s . «Yo fui educado a la antigua, y nunca cre que me fueran a ordenar un d a que matara a una mujer. A las mujeres no se las toca, no se les pega, no se les hace da o# Dos hombres, uno en la ficci n y otro en la realidad, tuvieron la oportunidad de matar a Hitler antes de que ste desencadenara la Segunda Guerra Mundial. A partir de este hecho, Javier Mar as explora el env s del «No matar s . Si esos hombres quiz debieron disparar contra el F hrer, cabe la posibilidad de hacerlo contra alguien m s? Como dice el narrador de Tom s Nevinson, «ya se ve que matar no es tan extremo ni tan dif cil e injusto si se sabe a qui n . Tom s Nevinson, marido de Berta Isla, cae en la tentaci n de volver a los Servicios Secretos tras haber estado fuera, y se le propone ir a una ciudad del noroeste para identificar a una persona, medio espa ola y medio norirlandesa, que particip en atentados del IRA y de ETA diez a os atr s. Estamos en 1997. El encargo lleva el sello de su ambiguo ex-jefe Bertram Tupra, que ya, mediante un enga o, hab a condicionado su vida anterior. La novela, m s all de su trama, es una profunda reflexi n sobre los l mites de lo que se puede hacer, sobre la mancha que casi siempre trae la evitaci n del mal mayor y sobre la dificultad de determinar cu l es ese mal. Con el trasfondo de episodios hist ricos de terrorismo, Tom s Nevinson es tambi n la historia de qu le sucede a quien ya le hab a sucedido todo y a quien, aparentemente, nada m s pod a ocurrir. Pero, mientras no terminan, todos los d as llegan#

WINNER OF SPAIN'S NATIONAL CRITICS AWARD - From the award-winning, internationally bestselling author of The Infatuations comes a gripping novel of intrigue and missed chances--at once a spy story and a profound examination of a marriage founded on concealment. - "A masterly premise ... worthy of a Hitchcock adaptation." --The New York Times Book Review When Berta Isla was a schoolgirl, she decided she would marry Tom s Nevinson--the dashing half-Spanish, half-English boy in her class with an extraordinary gift for languages. But when Tom s returns to Madrid from his studies at Oxford, he is a changed man. Unbeknownst to her, he has been approached by an agent from the British intelligence services, and he has unwittingly set in motion events that will derail forever the life they had planned. With peerless insight into the most shadowed corners of the human soul, Mar as plunges the reader into the growing chasm between Berta and Tom s and the decisions that irreversibly change the course of the couple's fate. Berta Isla is a novel of love and truth, fear and secrecy, buried identities, and the destinies we bring upon ourselves.

Una apasionante historia de esp as y, al mismo tiempo, un profundo examen del matrimonio basado en secretos y mentiras. En el colegio, Berta Isla decidi que se casar a con Tom s Nevinson, el apuesto chico de su clase, medio espa ol medio ingl s, con un extraordinario don de lenguas. Pero cuando Tom s regresa a Madrid tras sus estudios en Oxford, es un hombre diferente. All ha sido reclutado por un agente de los servicios secretos brit nicos, desencadenando as una serie de acontecimientos que afectar n la vida que ambos hab an planeado. Con su inigualable modo de explorar los m s oscuros rincones del ser humano, Mar as sumerge al lector en el creciente abismo que se abre lentamente entre Berta y Tom s y las decisiones que cambiar n irremediablemente a ambos. Berta Isla es una novela sobre el amor y la verdad, sobre el miedo y los secretos, sobre las identidades ocultas y el destino que decidimos asumir en nuestra vida. ENGLISH DESCRIPTION From award-winning, internationally best-selling Spanish writer, author of The Infatuations, comes a gripping novel of intrigue and missed chances--at once a spy story and a profound examination of a marriage founded on secrets and lies. When Berta Isla was a schoolgirl, she decided she would marry Tom s Nevinson--the dashing half-Spanish, half-English boy in her class with an extraordinary gift for languages. But when Tom s returns to Madrid from his studies at Oxford, he is a changed man. Unbeknownst to her, he has been approached by an agent from the British intelligence services, and he has unwittingly set in motion events that will derail forever the life they had planned. With peerless insight into the most shadowed corners of the human soul, Mar as plunges the reader into the growing chasm between Berta and Tom s and the decisions that irreversibly change the course of the couple's fate. Berta Isla is a novel of love and truth, fear and secrecy, buried identities, and the destinies we bring upon ourselves.

'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'No one else, anywhere, is writing quite like this' Daily TelegraphA new and exhilarating collection of writings from the author ofThe Infatuations andA Heart So WhiteInternationally renowned writer Javier Marias is a tireless examiner of the world around us, an enthusiastic debunker of pretensions of every kind, and a true polymath. This new collection of essays shows the full extent of his curiosity and wit, ranging from the literary to the philosophical to the autobiographical, from football to cinema, comic books to mortality to 'Why Almost No One Can Be Trusted'.Trenchant and wry, subversive and penetrating, Marias demonstrates a dazzling intellectual vigour, showing with exhilarating verve why he is so often said to be Spain's greatest living writer.

An 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. - "The most subtle and gifted writer in contemporary Spanish literature." --The Boston Globe Javier Mar as is a tireless examiner of the world around us: essayist, novelist, translator, voracious reader, enthusiastic debunker of pretension, and vigorous polymath. He is able to discover what many of us fail to notice or have never put into words, and he keeps looking long after most of us have turned away. This new collection of essays--by turns literary, philosophical, and autobiographical--journeys from the crumbling canals of Venice to the wide horizons of the Wild West, and Mar as captures each new vista with razor-sharp acuity and wit. He explores, with characteristic relish, subjects ranging from soccer to classic cinema, from comic books and toy soldiers to mortality and memory, from "The Most Conceited of Cities" to "Why Almost No One Can Be Trusted," making each brilliantly and inimitably his own. Trenchant and wry, subversive and penetrating, Between Eternities is a collection of dazzling intellectual curiosity, offering a window into the expansive mind of the man so often said to be Spain's greatest living writer.

'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 Costa

'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.

'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 Costa