Your Face Tomorrow 3: Poison, Shadow and Farewell - Hardcover

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

Publisher: 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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Review:

`the final, and the most powerful ... together the three volumes constitute one of the great novels in modern European literature' --Sunday Telegraph

`like so much of Mar�as's extraordinary writing, it is unforgettable' --TLS

`This novel... crowns Marias's trilogy and his translator's lively English rendering of it with narrative honour' --Sunday Times

`possibly the most powerful of the series.' --FT

"Your Face Tomorrow ... deserves to be recognised as one of the finest novels of modern times" -- Daily Telegraph

`this... may very well be the first authentic literary masterpiece of the 21st century'.
--Saturday Guardian

"a tour de force, a novel of ideas, rich in allusions and allegory" --The Economist

"it is probably the most powerful and important novel to appear in European literature for some time" --Guardian

`Marias is simply astonishing...even more gripping than its predecessors...Your Face Tomorrow seems to me unparalleled in literature' --Times Literary Supplement

'...remarkable in its high intelligence, style, ambition; puzzling in the way it blurs fact and fiction...a delightfully comic writer' -- Standpoint

Book Description:

The concluding part to Marias's masterwork: 'This trilogy must be one of the greatest novels of our age' (Antony Beevor)

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