Marias Javier

A marriage built on lies, a man with many faces, an unpaid debt to the secret service - rich drama from the author of The Infatuations.'For a while, she wasn't sure that her husband was her husband. Sometimes she thought he was, and sometimes not.'Berta and Tomás meet in Madrid and, though both young, they decide to spend their lives together....

Every day, Maria Dolz stops for breakfast at the same café. And every day she enjoys watching a handsome couple who follow the same routine. Then one day they aren't there, and she feels obscurely bereft.It is only later, when she comes across a newspaper photograph of the man, lying stabbed in the street, his shirt half off, that she discovers who...

"Marías stworzył dzieło wybitne". ABC CulturalFrapująca i zniewalająca historia pewnego oczekiwania.Berta Isla i Tomás Nevinson poznali się w Madrycie w bardzo młodym wieku i bardzo szybko postanowili być razem, nie spodziewając się, że przypadnie im w udziale życie pełne dramatycznych przerw i zawirowań.Tomás, pół-Hiszpan, pół-Anglik, ma wyjątkowy...

'She was bored and fought against her boredom, which only bored her still more.'Five sparkling, irreverent brief portraits of famous literary figures (including libertines, eccentrics and rogues) from Spain's greatest living writer.Penguin Modern: fifty new books celebrating the pioneering spirit of the iconic Penguin Modern Classics series, with...

An essential companion for every traveller to Venice, this is the hidden city revealed in a gorgeous non-fiction account by one of Europe's greatest living writers, Javier MaríasCentury after century, the essence of Venice is unchanging. It is a place of contradictions, equal parts glamour and chaos. As a young man, Javier Marías made the city his...

Internationally renowned writer Javier Marias is a tireless examiner of the world around us, an enthusiastic debunker of pretensions of every kind, a polymath and a rogue. This selection of his inimitable non-fiction pieces are published together in English for the first time.Following in the essayistic tradition of Montaigne, Between Eternities...