Tomorrow in the Battle Think on Me - Couverture souple

Marias, Javier

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1860464343 ISBN 13 : 9781860464348

Editeur : The Harvill Press, 1998

Synopsis

Marta's widowed husband is determined to discover who was sharing her bed on the night of her death. In so doing, he reveals the secrets that bind couples and break them apart, the admissions that conceal, the lies that betray the truth and the infinte capacity for self-deceit.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

V-ctor has left his new mistress, Marta, dead on her bed. He has put some food out for Marta's little boy, who had taken so long getting to sleep, and had slipped the tape with its compromising messages from her answering machine into his pocket before creeping off. An unexpected end to what was supposed to be an evening of passion - but the girl had suddenly taken ill and died in his arms. Marta's elderly father is afflicted that his daughter died alone, but the rest of the family are all too aware that she was not alone when she died, and De-n, the widowed husband, is determined to find out who was sharing her bed that night. All might have remained undiscovered, but V-ctor cannot endure living with shadows and, as it turns out, there is another who must also bring secrets into the open. (2002-10-18)

Biographie de l'auteur

Javier Marias was born in Madrid in 1951 and published his first novel at the age of nineteen. In addition to seven other novels (which have won him the Herralde de Novela and the Ciudad de Barcelona prizes, and the Spanish Critics' Award, and some of which have been translated into several languages) he has written a volume of short stories and a collection of essays. He is also a highly practised translator into Spanish of English authors, including Conrad, Stevenson, Hardy, and Laurence Sterne. He has held academic posts in Spain, the United States (where he was visiting professor at Wellesley College) and in Britain, as Lecturer in Spanish Literature at Oxford University. (2002-10-18)

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: The Harvill Press
• Date d'édition: 1998
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1860464343
• ISBN 13: 9781860464348
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 320
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible