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Your Face Tomorrow: Fever and Spearby Javier Marias
Review-A-Day"The ambition of Your Face Tomorrow, like its size, is unmistakably large. The novel consists of three volumes but seven parts, inciting comparison with Proust. This is Marias's epic, and it is the nature of epic that it will sometimes bore us. The Iliad, The Aeneid, The Divine Comedy, Don Quixote, Paradise Lost, The Prelude, Moby-Dick, Ulysses, not to mention the Bible — all of these contain some rather formidable longueurs. Epic aims at plenitude; it wants to incorporate the whole of existence, make the work a mirror of the world." William Deresiewicz, The Nation (Read the entire Nation review) Synopses & ReviewsPublisher Comments: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. Review:"A daring masterwork by Javier Marias: 'Spain's most subtle and gifted writer.'" The Boston Globe
Review:"Marías’s most extravagant showcase for ‘literary thinking’ so far. It also serves as a compelling introduction to his writing." Wyatt Mason Review:"Fever and Spear entangles and fascinates readers and critics who have variously compared it with the novels of Dostoevsky, Proust and Beckett." The New Yorker Review:"The overall effect recalls the cerebral play of Borges, the dark humor of Pynchon, and meditative lyricism of Proust. By one of the most original writers at work today, Your Face Tomorrow [is] as accomplished and sui generis as all his mature work [and the] most affecting narrative feat in Marías’s work to date. This brilliant trilogy must be one of the greatest novels of our age." Antony Beevor About the AuthorBest-selling author Javier Marias (b. 1951, Madrid) has won many awards including the 1997 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award. In 2006, he was elected to the Real Acadamia Española. Margaret Jull Costa won the coveted Valle-Inclen Translation Award for this translation. What Our Readers Are SayingBe the first to add a comment for a chance to win!Product Details
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