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Knopf
August 2013
On Sale: August 13, 2013
356 pages
ISBN: 0307960722
EAN: 9780307960726
Kindle: B00BH0VSGW
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From the award-winning Spanish writer Javier Marías comes an
extraordinary new book that has been a literary sensation
around the world: an immersive, provocative novel propelled
by a seemingly random murder that we come to understand—or
do we?—through one woman’s ever-unfurling imagination and
infatuations. At the Madrid café where she stops for breakfast each day
before work, María Dolz finds herself drawn to a couple who
is also there every morning. Though she can hardly explain
it, observing what she imagines to be their “unblemished”
life lifts her out of the doldrums of her own existence. But
what begins as mere observation turns into an increasingly
complicated entanglement when the man is fatally stabbed in
the street. María approaches the widow to offer her
condolences, and at the couple’s home she meets—and falls in
love with—another man who sheds disturbing new light on the
crime. As María recounts this story, we are given a murder
mystery brilliantly reimagined as metaphysical enquiry, a
novel that grapples with questions of love and death, guilt
and obsession, chance and coincidence, how we are haunted by
our losses, and above all, the slippery essence of the truth
and how it is told.
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