Synopses & Reviews
Victims of mistaken identity, sponging relatives, amateur sleuths, eavesdroppers, professional liars, assassins, and failed bodyguards populate the short stories in . Plots turn on curious exigencies--a woman about to star in her first porn film; a night doctor who adds new meaning to "specialist"; a ghost whose neglect is greatly resented. "In the space of ten or twenty pages," as the remarked, "Marías contrives to write a novel." "The short story fits Marías like a glove," as noted, and these stories have been acclaimed as "dazzling" (); "formidably intelligent" (); and "startling" ().
Synopsis
A dozen stories by Javier Marías -- "the most subtle and gifted writer in contemporary Spanish literature" () -- commissioned from numerous literary publications around the world.
Synopsis
A dozen stories by Javier Maras '""the most subtle and gifted writer in contemporary Spanish literature" (Boston Sunday Globe).
About the Author
is an award-winning Spanish novelist. He is also a translator and columnist, as well as the current king of Redonda. He was born in Madrid in 1951 and published his first novel at the age of nineteen. He has held academic posts in Spain, the US (he was a visiting professor at Wellesley College) and Britain, as a lecturer in Spanish Literature at Oxford University. He has been translated into 34 languages, and more than six million copies of his books have been sold worldwide. In 1997 he won the Nelly Sachs Award; the Comunidad de Madrid award in 1998; in 2000 the Grinzane Cavour Award, the Alberto Moravia Prize, and the Dublin IMPAC Award. He also won the Spanish National Translation Award in 1979 for his translation of in 1979. He was a professor at Oxford University and the Complutense of Madrid. He currently lives in Madrid. is an award-winning translator of Portuguese and Spanish literature. She lives in the United Kingdom.