Your Face Tomorrow 3: Poison, Shadow and Farewell - Couverture rigide

Marias, Javier

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9780701183424: Your Face Tomorrow 3: Poison, Shadow and Farewell

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ISBN 10 : 070118342X ISBN 13 : 9780701183424

Editeur : Chatto & Windus, 2009

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Jacques Deza is back in London and once again working for the mysterious intelligence agency run by Bertram Tupra. Deza finds himself forced to watch Tupra's collection of incriminating videotapes of important public figures. The recordings document unconventional private lives - and horrific acts. The scenes enter him like a poison, contaminating everything good, yet he is powerless to counteract them. Mind and memory polluted, Deza goes home to Madrid on leave to find his father gently slipping towards death, and his wife, Luisa, involved with a new man. Set against a background of brutality, "Poison, Shadow and Farewell" asks whether violence can ever be justified and completes the extraordinary journey that has led us on a descent into hell and a re-emergence, not entirely unscathed, into life. Javier Marias has been called 'the most significant Spanish writer of his generation' and in a bravura performance he draws together themes not only from earlier volumes in the trilogy but from his entire body of work, to provide a thrilling end to his magnum opus.

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Quatri�me de couverture :

'Javier Marias's incomparably strange and brilliant trilogy [is] quite unlike anything else today... Your Face Tomorrow is both an inquisitive novel of ideas and a troubling piece of espionage fiction... It deserves to be recognised as one of the finest novels of modern times" Daily Telegraph

Poison, Shadow and Farewell is the concluding part in Javier Marias spy trilogy masterwork, Your Face Tomorrow.

Jacques Deza is back in London and once again working for the secret intelligence agency run by his old Oxford friend Bernard Tupra. Deza finds himself increasingly under the spell of his shadowy boss, forced to witness a savage attack on an old man and watch Tupra's collection of incriminating videotapes of important public figures. The recordings document unconventional private lives - and horrific acts. The scenes enter him like a poison, contaminating everything good, yet he is powerless to counteract them. Set against a background of brutality, Poison, Shadow and Farewell asks whether violence can ever be justified and completes the extraordinary journey that has led us on a descent into hell and a re-emergence, not entirely unscathed, into life.

'The final, and the most powerful, part of Javier Marias's monumental trilogy. Together the three volumes constitute one of the great novels in modern European literature... This important book is a triumph' Antony Beevor, Sunday Telegraph

'This is indeed one of the most remarkable novels of our time, utterly compelling, as addictive as Proust...Marias blends fact and fiction seamlessly. He is marvellously observant and also inventive... Your Face Tomorrow is one of the great works of modern European fiction' Scotsman

'With this triumphant finale...it becomes impossible to resist the thought that this deeply strange creation...may very well be the first authentic literary masterpiece of the 21st century' James Lasdun, Guardian

Revue de presse :

"The final, and the most powerful, part of Javier Mar�as's monumental trilogy. Together the three volumes constitute one of the great novels in modern European literature... a triumph" (Antony Beevor Sunday Telegraph)

"One of the most remarkable novels of our time, utterly compelling, as addictive as Proust... Mar�as blends fact and fiction seamlessly. He is marvellously observant and also inventive...One of the great works of modern European fiction" (Allan Massie Scotsman, Books of the Year)

"Those who have followed Your Face Tomorrow through its first two volumes will find its conclusion, Poison, Shadow and Farewell, mesmerising. They will surely feel that it has been one of the defining reading experiences of their life and look forward to starting all over again" (Literary Review)

"And with this triumphant finale - the longest and best of all three - it becomes impossible to resist the thought that this deeply strange creation...may very well be the first authentic literary masterpiece of the 21st century" (James Lasdun The Guardian)

"An outstanding book that rounds off one of the most thoughtful and inspiring fictional works of the last decade" (Independent)

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