Javier Marías

A Heart So White

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Produktbeschreibung

Winner of the IMPAC Dublin Award, and widely considered Javier Marías's masterpiece, A Heart So White is a breathtaking novel about family secrets that chronicles the relentless power of the past. Juan knows little of the interior life of his father Ranz; but when Juan marries, he begins to consider the past anew, and begins to ponder what he doesn't really want to know. Secrecy--its possible convenience, its price, and even its civility--hovers throughout the novel. A Heart So White becomes a sort of anti-detective story of human nature. Intrigue; the sins of the father; the fraudulent and the genuine; marriage and strange repetitions of violence: Marías elegantly sends shafts of inquisitory light into shadows and onto the costs of ambivalence.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. März 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 203mm x 128mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 233g
• ISBN-13: 9780307950765
• ISBN-10: 030795076X
• Artikelnr.: 36671751

Autorenporträt

JAVIER MARÍAS was born in Madrid in 1951. He has published fifteen novels, including The Infatuations and A Heart So White, as well as three collections of short stories and several volumes of essays. His work has been translated into forty-four languages, has sold more than eight and a half million copies worldwide, and has won a dazzling array of international literary awards, including the prestigious International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award and the Prix Femina Étranger. He died in 2022. Translated by Margaret Jull Costa