Your Face Tomorrow: Fever and Spear (New Directions Paperbook) - Softcover

Marías, Javier

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0811217272 ISBN 13: 9780811217279

Verlag: NEW DIRECTIONS, 2007

Inhaltsangabe

Your face tomorrow 1: fever & spear editado por W W Norton New Directions

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The overall effect recalls the cerebral play of Borges, the dark humor of Pynchon, and meditative lyricism of Proust.

This brilliant trilogy must be one of the greatest novels of our age.--Antony Beevor ""Books of the Year" "

Marías's most extravagant showcase for 'literary thinking' so far. It also serves as a compelling introduction to his writing.--Wyatt Mason

Your Face Tomorrow is already being compared to Proust's A la recherche du temps perdu, and rightly so.

Fever and Spear entangles and fascinates readers and critics who have variously compared it with the novels of Dostoevsky, Proust and Beckett.--Ian Mitchell "Best Books of the Year "

Reseña del editor:

Part spy novel, part romance, part Henry James, Your Face Tomorrow is a wholly remarkable display of the immense gifts of Javier Marias. With Fever and Spear, Volume One of his unfolding novel Your Face Tomorrow, he returns us to the rarified world of Oxford (the delightful setting of 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 Two, Dance and Dream.

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• Verlag: NEW DIRECTIONS
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2007
• ISBN 10: 0811217272
• ISBN 13: 9780811217279
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 387