Your Face Tomorrow: Fever and Spear
- ISBN-10
- 0811223892
- ISBN-13
- 9780811223898
- Series
- Your Face Tomorrow
- Category
- Fiction
- Pages
- 400
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2007-09-17
- Publisher
- New Directions Publishing
- Author
- Javier Marías
Description
A daring masterwork by Javier Marias: "Spain's most subtle and gifted writer." (The Boston Globe) Part spy novel, part romance, part Henry James, Your Face Tomorrow is a wholly remarkable display of the immense gifts of Javier Marias. With Fever and Spear, Volume One of his unfolding novel Your Face Tomorrow, he returns us to the rarified world of Oxford (the delightful setting of All Souls and Dark Back of Time), while introducing us to territory entirely new--espionage. Our hero, Jaime Deza, separated from his wife in Madrid, is a bit adrift in London until his old friend Sir Peter Wheeler—retired Oxford don and semi-retired master spy—recruits him for a new career in British Intelligence. Deza possesses a rare gift for seeing behind the masks people wear. He is soon observing interviews conducted by Her Majesty's secret service: variously shady international businessmen one day, would-be coup leaders the next. Seductively, this metaphysical thriller explores past, present, and future in the ever-more-perilous 21st century. This compelling and enigmatic tour de force from one of Europe's greatest writers continues with Volume Two, Dance and Dream.
Get the book
Other editions
-
- 2011-06-08
- 554 pages
- Ebook
- New Directions Publishing
Similar books
-
Your Face Tomorrow, Volume 1: Fever and Spear
By Javier Marías'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 Smith 'I am myself my own fever and pain' Jacques Deza has been told he has ...
-
The Infatuations
By Javier MaríasAs María recounts this story, we are given a murder mystery brilliantly encased in a metaphysical enquiry, a novel that grapples with questions of love and death, chance and coincidence, and above all, with the slippery essence of the ...
-
A Heart So White
By Javier MaríasSecrecy—its possible convenience, its price, and even its civility—hovers throughout the novel. A Heart So White becomes a sort of anti-detective story of human nature.
-
Dark Back of Time
By Javier Marías'We lose everything because everything remains except us', says the mysterious narrator of this extraordinary novel, which meditates on the transience, chance and fragility of life.
-
While the Women Are Sleeping
By Javier MaríasPresents a collection of short stories, including "While the women are sleeping," in which a man lying on the beach spectulates on the lives of another pair of beach goers, and "The Resignation Letter of Seänor de Santiesteban," in which a ...
-
Bad Nature, or With Elvis in Mexico (New Directions Pearls)
By Javier MaríasA gem of a Marías story: Elvis and his entourage abandon their translator in a seedy cantina full of enraged criminals. “It all happened because of Elvis Presley.” Elvis, down south of the border to film a movie, has insisted his ...
-
Written Lives
By Javier MaríasHis love for these authors is the touchstone of Written Lives. Collected here are twenty pieces recounting great writers' lives, "or, more precisely, snippets of writers' lives.
-
All Souls
By Javier MaríasMarías demonstrates a sweet tooth for eccentricity in this sly campus novel and love story.
-
Dance and Dream
By Javier MaríasYour Face Tomorrow, Javier Marias s dazzling unfolding magnum opus is a novel in three parts which began with Fever and Spear (Chatto 2005). Described as an intriguing and audacious experiment (Sunday Times) and an outstanding spy
-
Tomorrow in the Battle Think on Me
By Javier MaríasTomorrow in the Battle Think on Me is a gripping and moving meditation on the hold that the dead have over the living, by Javier Marías, whose highly-anticipated new novel The Infatuations is published in 2013.