In the dark narratives that make up When I Was Mortal by Javier Marķas, winner of the Dublin IMPAC prize and author of the bestselling A Heart So White, a dapper Paris doctor dispenses a treatment for dissatisfied wives. A mother auditions for her first porn movie. A writer working on a study of pain makes himself the subject of his experiments. A voyeur mistakes a murderer for a fellow peeping tom ... these are some of the characters observed by the narrator of these chilling stories. Ironic, unsettling, imbued with dread and with droll humour, Javier Marķas' short tales cast a shrewd, sardonic eye on humanity.
Javier Marķas was born in Madrid in 1951. He has published ten novels, two collections of short stories and several volumes of essays. His work has been translated into thirty-two languages and won a dazzling array of international literary awards, including the prestigious Dublin IMPAC award for A Heart So White. He is also a highly practised translator into Spanish of English authors, including Joseph Conrad, Robert Louis Stevenson, Sir Thomas Browne and Laurence Sterne. He has held academic posts in Spain, the United States and in Britain, as Lecturer in Spanish Literature at Oxford University.
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'What is remarkable about his stories is the sureness of their narration, the precision and economy of their prose, their mastery of suspense and the plot twist' Chicago Tribune
Translated by Margaret Jull Costa
A dapper Paris doctor dispenses a treatment for dissatisfied wives. A mother auditions for her first porn movie. A writer working on a study of pain makes himself the subject of his experiments. A voyeur mistakes a murderer for a fellow peeping tom ... these are some of the characters observed by the narrator of these chilling stories. Ironic, unsettling, imbued with dread and with droll humour, Javier Marķas' short tales cast a shrewd, sardonic eye on humanity.
'Elegant and unflappable, there is a recognisable voice throughout, promenading through a landscape of murders, fatal affairs and suicides with the calm of a curious botanist ... This is fiction clever enough to seem simple, devilish enough to seem innocuous' The Times
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