Your Face Tomorrow – Fever and Spear V 1 (New Directions Books) - Softcover

Marías, Javier; Costa, Margaret Jull

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0811217272 ISBN 13: 9780811217279

Publisher: New Directions, 2007

Synopsis

Our hero, Jaime Deza, separated from his wife in Madrid, is a bit adrift in London until his old friend Sir Peter Wheeler--retired Oxford don and semi-retired master spy--recruits him for a new career in British Intelligence. Deza possesses a rare gift for seeing behind the masks people wear. He is soon observing interviews conducted by Her Majesty's secret service: variously shady international businessmen one day, would-be coup leaders the next. Seductively, this metaphysical thriller explores past, present, and future in the ever-more-perilous 21st century. This compelling and enigmatic tour de force from one of Europe's greatest writers continues with Volume Two, Dance and Dream.

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Review:

The overall effect recalls the cerebral play of Borges, the dark humor of Pynchon, and meditative lyricism of Proust.

This brilliant trilogy must be one of the greatest novels of our age.--Antony Beevor ""Books of the Year" "

Marías's most extravagant showcase for 'literary thinking' so far. It also serves as a compelling introduction to his writing.--Wyatt Mason

Your Face Tomorrow is already being compared to Proust's A la recherche du temps perdu, and rightly so.

Fever and Spear entangles and fascinates readers and critics who have variously compared it with the novels of Dostoevsky, Proust and Beckett.--Ian Mitchell "Best Books of the Year "

About the Author:

Javier Marías is an award-winning Spanish novelist. He is also a translator and columnist, as well as the current king of Redonda. He was born in Madrid in 1951 and published his first novel at the age of nineteen. He has held academic posts in Spain, the US (he was a visiting professor at Wellesley College) and Britain, as a lecturer in Spanish Literature at Oxford University. He has been translated into 34 languages, and more than six million copies of his books have been sold worldwide. In 1997 he won the Nelly Sachs Award; the Comunidad de Madrid award in 1998; in 2000 the Grinzane Cavour Award, the Alberto Moravia Prize, and the Dublin IMPAC Award. He also won the Spanish National Translation Award in 1979 for his translation of Tristram Shandy in 1979. He was a professor at Oxford University and the Complutense of Madrid. He currently lives in Madrid.

MARGARET JULL COSTA is a three-time winner of the Oxford-Weidenfeld Translation Prize. For New Directions, she has translated works by Rafael Chirbes, Javier Marías, Fernando Pessoa, Eça de Queirós, and Enrique Vila-Matas.

About this edition

• Publisher: New Directions
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 0811217272
• ISBN 13: 9780811217279
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 400