A darkly smouldering tale of a young man entangled in his employer's unhappy marriage.
Javier Marias was born in Madrid in 1951 and died in 2022. He published fifteen novels, three collections of short stories and several volumes of essays. His work has been translated into forty-three languages and has won a dazzling array of international literary awards, including the prestigious Dublin IMPAC award for A Heart So White. He held academic posts in Spain, the United States and in Britain, as Lecturer in Spanish Literature at Oxford University.
Publisher's description. From one of Spain's most acclaimed
literary voices comes a rich and complex portrait of mutual
deception, toxic love and cruel, lingering guilt. A youth caught in
the middle of someone else's bitter marriage; a beautiful woman
scorned; a man torn between conscience and will. Step into the
melancholic, unforgiving world of Javier Marías.
*Penguin*
Marías returns with another masterful tapestry of noir-ish twists
and digressive cerebration
*The Millions*
Elegant and beautiful, reminiscent of Proust... Magnificent
*Daily Mail*
One of Marias's most enjoyable and accessible novels
*Financial Times*
Marias is relentless in his pursuit of literary and psychological
truth
*Sunday Times*
Ferociously addictive, troubling [and] seductive... It works as
high literary fiction, constantly picking apart our assumptions
about story and fiction, but also offering good old-fashioned
plot'
*Independent*
A powerful study of history and memory from a literary giant
*Sunday Times*
Easily as engrossing as anything he's written before... He manages
to tread the tightrope between a very literary fiction and an
utterly absorbing plot
*The Times*
Alfred Hitchcock would be a home with Marias - but so too might
Harold Pinter...It's a rare trick to pull off, this combination of
suspense, analysis and metaphysics that aims both high at the brow
and low at the gut
*Prospect*
Almodóvar-esque
*New York Magazine*
On the page, he is expansive and unrestrained
*New Yorker*
A major work from a global talent, Thus Bad Begins knits
Hitchcockian suspense into a hypnotic tale crackling with erotic
tension and political strife... The personal is political, as
Marías' powerful, wide-ranging, yet curiously intimate novel
attests
*Minneapolis Star-Tribune*
Marías is a master of a kind of suspense that is rare in the modern
novel
*NY Times*
Erudite, strange, hypnotic and beautiful...One reads Marías for his
ability to make the smallest parts of the world come alive
*LA Times*
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