Synopses & Reviews
Set in Madrid, passion and power frame this sophisticated, and at times perverse, comedy of manners. “Javier Mariás is in my opinion one of the bet contemporary writers.” J.M. Coetzee. Mariás is winner of the Dublin IMPAC award for A Heart So White.
Synopsis
The narrator, a tenor, after first encountering Manur, who is accompanied by his wife and his secretary, insinuates himself into the little group in this highly sophisticated, sometimes perverse, comedy of manners about the birth and death of passion.