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A Heart So White
Javier Marías
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Description for A Heart So White
Paperback. In the middle of a family lunch Teresa, just married, goes to the bathroom, unbuttons her blouse and shoots herself in the heart. What made her kill herself immediately after her honeymoon? Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 127 x 19. Weight in Grams: 234.
A Heart so White is the breathtaking international bestseller and IMPAC Award-winning masterpiece by Javier Marías, whose highly-anticipated new novel The Infatuations is published in 2013. This Penguin Modern Classics edition features a new Introduction by Jonathan Coe.
A Heart so White begins as, In the middle of a family lunch Teresa, just married, goes to the bathroom, unbuttons her blouse and shoots herself in the heart. What made her kill herself immediately after her honeymoon? Years later, this mystery fascinates the young newlywed Juan, whose father was married to Teresa before he married Juan's mother. As Juan ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Condition
New
Series
Penguin Modern Classics
Number of Pages
304
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780141199955
SKU
9780141199955
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About Javier Marías
Javier Marías was born in Madrid in 1951 and died in 2022. He published fifteen novels, three collections of short stories and several volumes of essays. His work has been translated into forty-three languages and has won a dazzling array of international literary awards, including the prestigious Dublin IMPAC award for A Heart So White. He held academic posts in ... Read more
Reviews for A Heart So White
The most subtle and gifted writer in contemporary Spanish literature
Boston Globe
I was enthralled
Marina Warner, Guardian
Marías' challenging and seductive technique reaches its pinnacle in A Heart So White
The New York Times
The work of a supreme stylist ... It is brilliantly done
James Woodall, The Times
As unique ... Read more
Boston Globe
I was enthralled
Marina Warner, Guardian
Marías' challenging and seductive technique reaches its pinnacle in A Heart So White
The New York Times
The work of a supreme stylist ... It is brilliantly done
James Woodall, The Times
As unique ... Read more