Javier Marias

"Mistrzowie pióra ? Faulkner, Conrad, Nabokov, Sterne i wielu innych ? w nowym ciekawym ujęciu.Podręczniki i słowniki historii literatury byłyby znacznie bardziej interesujące, gdyby zawierały biografie takie jak te, przedstawione przez Javiera Mariasa.Koncentrując uwagę na mistrzach XVIII, XIX i XX wieku, a nie na maskach, które przyjęli wraz ze...

Winner of the IMPAC Dublin Award, and widely considered Javier Maras'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...

A story of love and memory.On a train journey from Paris to Madrid a young opera singer becomes fascinated by those in his compartment: a middle-aged businessman, his alluring wife and their male traveling companion. Soon his life of constant travel, luxury hotels, rehearsal and performance will become entangled with these three people, and the...

By one of the most important voices in contemporary world literature, a darkly comic novel about that most British of institutions, Oxford University.In All Souls, a visiting Spanish lecturer, viewing Oxford through a prismatic detachment, is alternately amused, puzzled, delighted, and disgusted by its vagaries of human vanity. A bit lonely, not...

A New York Times Book Review Notable Book, NPR Great Reads, and Onion A.V. Club Best Book of 2013Each day before work Mara Dolz stops at the same cafe. There she finds herself drawn to a couple who is also there every morning. Observing their seemingly perfect life helps her escape the listlessness of her own. But when the man is brutally murdered...

Kryminał bez morderstwa zbudowany na kanwie misternie utkanej sieci celnych życiowych refleksji.Powieść zgodnie uznana przez najwybitniejszych krytyków i czytelników za największe objawienie literackie ostatnich trzydziestu lat.Juan, młody tłumacz konferencyjny, przeżywa przełomowy i trudny, jak mu się wydaje, moment w swoim życiu – żeni się. Jego...