Your Face Tomorrow: Poison, Shadow, and Farewell

Name: Your Face Tomorrow: Poison, Shadow, and Farewell
Brand: New Directions Publishing Corporation
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By (author): Javier Marias

Translated by: Margaret Jull Costa

Poison, Shadow, and Farewell, with its heightened tensions between meditations and noir narrative, with its wit and and ever deeper forays into the mysteries of consciousness, brings to a stunning finale Maríass three-part Your Face Tomorrow. Already this novel has been acclaimed exquisite (Publishers Weekly), gorgeous (Kirkus), and outstanding: another work of urgent originality (London Independent). Poison, Shadow, and Farewell takes our hero Jaime Dezahired by MI6 as a person of extraordinarily sophisticated powers of perceptionback to Madrid to both spy on and try to protect his own family, and into new depths of love and loss, with a fluency on the subject of death that could make a stone weep. See more

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Weight: 791g
Dimensions: 147 x 211mm
Publication Date: 12 Feb 2010
Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
Publication City/Country: United States
Language: English
ISBN13: 9780811218122

About Javier Marias

Javier Marías is an award-winning Spanish novelist. He is also a translator and columnist as well as the current king of Redonda. He was born in Madrid in 1951 and published his first novel at the age of nineteen. He has held academic posts in Spain the US (he was a visiting professor at Wellesley College) and Britain as a lecturer in Spanish Literature at Oxford University. He has been translated into 34 languages and more than six million copies of his books have been sold worldwide. In 1997 he won the Nelly Sachs Award; the Comunidad de Madrid award in 1998; in 2000 the Grinzane Cavour Award the Alberto Moravia Prize and the Dublin IMPAC Award. He also won the Spanish National Translation Award in 1979 for his translation of Tristram Shandy in 1979. He was a professor at Oxford University and the Complutense of Madrid. He currently lives in Madrid. For her translations of Spanish and Portuguese Margaret Jull Costa has won the Oxford-Weidenfeld Translation Prize four times as well as the Premio Valle-Inclán the International Dublin Literary Award and the 2008 PEN Prize for best translation from any language for The Maias by Eça de Queirós (New Directions 2007).