Your Face Tomorrow: 3. Poison, Shadow and Farewell

Marías, Javier; Costa, Margaret Jull (Translator)

ISBN 10: 070118342X / ISBN 13: 9780701183424

Verlag: Chatto & Windus, London, 2009

Beschreibung

First UK edition of the final volume of the trilogy. Translated by Margaret Jull Costa. There is a little denting to the fore edge of the front panel of the boards, bumping at the top and bottom of the spine and a little edge rubbing. The page edges have some browning and there is a little edge wear to the first few pages and small creases to a few pages near the front of the book a little further on. Small patch of label residue to the bottom right corner of the front free endpaper but the pages are otherwise clean and unmarked. The jacket has a little edge creasing. First printing.

Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 020210

Bibliografische Details

• Titel: Your Face Tomorrow: 3. Poison, Shadow and Farewell
• Verlag: Chatto & Windus, London
• Erscheinungsjahr: 2009
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-10: 070118342X
• ISBN-13: 9780701183424
• Einband: Original Cloth
• Auflage: First Edition
• Druck: 1st Printing
• Zustand: Very Good
• Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good

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Inhaltsangabe

Jacques Deza is back in London and once again working for the mysterious 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. Mind and memory polluted, Deza goes home to Madrid on leave to find his father gently slipping towards death, and his wife, Luisa, involved with a new man. 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. Javier Marias has been called 'the most significant Spanish writer of his generation' and in a bravura performance he draws together themes not only from earlier volumes in the trilogy but from his entire body of work, to provide a thrilling end to his magnum opus.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Javier Marias was born in 1951. He has published twelve novels, two collections of stories and a number of essay collections, winning a dazzling array of international literary awards. His work has been translated into 37 languages in 47 countries and more than six million copies of his books have been sold worldwide. He has held academic posts in Spain, the United States and in Britain, as Lecturer in Spanish Literature at Oxford University, and has recently been nominated a member of the Real Academia de la Lengua Espanola. He lives in Madrid.