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

Dark Back of Time

Literature & Fiction

Contemporary

VINTAGE (RAND)

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

Vintage/Ebury (a Division of Random

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

Your Face Tomorrow 3: Poison, Shadow and Farewell

While the Women Are Sleeping. by Javier Marias

Vintage Books

A Heart so White

Literary

Penguin Classics

Penguin PressClassics

See the best price to sell, buy, or rent books by javier-marias. BookScouter helps to compare book prices from 25+ online bookstores and 30+ buyback vendors with a single search.

Books by javier-marias