All Souls

javier-marias

Harvill

Winner of the 1990 Cuidad de Barcelona Prize, this story traces an affair that develops between a visiting Spanish lecturer at Oxford and a beautiful tutor. While the lecturer wishes to keep the affair secret, the tutor is intent on strewing evidence everywhere, even in front of her husband.

Translator-Margaret Jull Costa

Harpercollins

V-ctor has left his new mistress, Marta, dead on her bed.  He has put some food out for Marta's little boy, who had taken so long getting to sleep, and had slipped the tape with its compromising messages from her answering machine into his pocket before creeping off. An unexpected end to what was supposed to be an evening of passion - but the girl had suddenly taken ill and died in his arms. Marta's elderly father is afflicted that his daughter died alone, but the rest of the family are all too aware that she was not alone when she died, and De-n, the widowed husband, is determined to find out who was sharing her bed that night. All might have remained undiscovered, but V-ctor cannot endure living with shadows and, as it turns out, there is another who must also bring secrets into the open.

Tomorrow in the Battle Think on Me

Literature & Fiction

Contemporary

Vintage/Ebury (a Division of Random

At High Table in an Oxford College, the pretty, young tutor, Clare Bayes attracted all eyes, not least to her fetching decolletage. No one's eyes were sharper, however, than those of the visiting Spanish lecturer, invited as a guest on this occasion. In due course, the two young people were lovers, unbeknown to Clare's husband, Andif the spaniard was at pains to cover their tracks, his beloved left evidence of adultery with gay abandon - and all this in a university that was a forcing house of gossip and intrigue, a place where 'at every word a reputation dies'. This affair between the canny Latin and the flightly English woman forms the central thread in a brilliantly-wrought tapestry of Oxford life, at once affectionate in its insight and hilarious in its ironic portrayals of Senior Common Room worthies.

Juan knows little about his widowed father Ranz, a man with a troubled past. He does know, however, that before marrying Juan's mother, Ranz was married to her elder sister, who had committed suicide. The unspoken dialogue between father and son soon becomes a spelling out of the horrifying truth once Juan marries Luisa, who turns discreet confessor to the burdened old man. What gradually emerges into the cold light of day is a repetition of scenes already witnessed by Juan in the course of his travels: a married man blackmailed by his mistress in a Havana hotel, a woman in New York pursuing a sequence of shabby lovers through the lonely-hearts columns. Produced with remarkable skill and delicacy, this is a startling picture of two generations, two marriages, and the secret commerce between spouses that rests on the gossamer-thin threads of an unspoken accord.

A Heart So White

RANDOM HOUSE UK

Javier Mar-as's prize-winning novel describes the birth and death of a passion. The narrator, a tenor known as 'the Lion of Naples', recalls a moment of his life when, during a series of performances of Verdi's Othello in Madrid, he first encountered Manur, a Flemish banker, a man who he had noticed in a train, who was acco

The Man of Feeling

Vintage

<p>"Your Face Tomorrow", Javier Marias' dazzling unfolding magnum opus is a novel in three parts which began with "Fever and Spear" (Chatto 2005). Described as an 'intriguing and audacious experiment' ("Sunday Times") and an 'outstanding spy novel of ideas' ("Independent"), the book now takes us even deeper into the dark world of Jacques Deza as, in volume two, his relationship with his shadowy boss, Bertram Tupra, becomes increasingly disconcerting. Jacques Deza is in a kind of limbo. Separated from his wife and child, living in London to make a break from Spain, he has found work with an M16-like organisation who employ him for his acute powers of observation and insight into human nature. But, as Jacques discovers to his cost, it is not possible to distance yourself from other human beings entirely. Just to listen to someone asking you a favour, however insignificant, is to become implicated in their lives. And when your boss forces you to watch him lure a man into a nightclub toilet and threaten to execute him with a sword, your innocence is definitely suspect. Jacques finds himself remembering his father's horrifying stories of the Spanish Civil War ...Will Jacques manage to remain morally unharmed and will Marias sustain this novel's brilliantly digressive dance? The reader longs for volume three in order to find out.</p>

Your Face Tomorrow 2. Dance and Dream

Vintage Books USA

Your Face Tomorrow 3: Poison, Shadow and Farewell

Vintage Books

A Heart so White

Literary

Penguin Books, Ltd.

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All Souls

All Souls

Tomorrow in the Battle Think on Me

All Souls

A Heart So White

The Man of Feeling

Your Face Tomorrow 2. Dance and Dream

Your Face Tomorrow 3: Poison, Shadow and Farewell

A Heart so White

Tomorrow in the Battle Think on Me