'Your Face Tomorrow is already being compared with Proust and rightly so'Observer'One of contemporary literature's major works...you have to open this book'Ali SmithThe concluding part in Javier Marías'spy trilogy masterworkJacques Deza is back in London and once again working for the secretintelligence agency run by Bertram Tupra. Deza finds himself forced towatch Tupra's collection of incriminating videotapes of important publicfigures. The recordings document unconventional private lives - andhorrific acts. The scenes enter him like a poison,contaminatingeverything good,yet he is powerless to counteract them. Set against a background of brutality,Poison,Shadow and Farewellasks whether violence can ever be justified and completes theextraordinary journey that has led us on a descent into hell and are-emergence,not entirely unscathed,into life.
Publisher: Penguin Books LtdISBN: 9780241338063Number of pages: 560Weight: 383 gDimensions: 198 x 129 x 24 mm
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Your Face Tomorrow is already being compared with Proust andrightly so. It is a novel of extraordinary subtlety and pathos. The nextthing Marias deserves is the Nobel Prize
Javier Marías
Hailed as one of Spain's greatest contemporary authors,Javier Marías was an award-winning Spanish novelist,short story writer,essayist and translator.
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