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Marias J. Thus Bad Begins
As a young man, Juan de Vere takes a job that will haunt him for the rest of his life. Hi employer is Eduardo Muriel: a famous film director, sophisticated and discreet. Muriel's wife Beatriz is a soft, ripe woman who slips through her husband's home like an unwanted ghost, finding solace in other beds. And on the periphery of their lives stands Dr Jorge Van Vechten, a old family friend with a shadowy past. Juan enters eagerly into Muriel's world of glamour and prestige, but as time passes he is troubled by many questions that seem to have no answer. Why does Muriel hate Beatriz? How did Beatriz meet Van Vechten? And what happened in the chaotic years after the war?As Juan learns more about his employers, his own innocence begins to fall away. Though he starts off as a mere observer, he is soon unable to stand on the side lines, compelled to interfere ever more dangerously in the dark interior of other people's lives.Marias presents a study of the infinitely permeable boundaries between private and public selves, between observer and participant, between the deceptions we suffer from others and those we enact upon ourselves. .
970 Руб.
Marias J. Thus Bad Begins
As a young man, Juan de Vere takes a job that will haunt him for the rest of his life. Hi employer is Eduardo Muriel: a famous film director, sophisticated and discreet. Muriel's wife Beatriz is a soft, ripe woman who slips through her husband's home like an unwanted ghost, finding solace in other beds. And on the periphery of their lives stands Dr Jorge Van Vechten, a old family friend with a shadowy past. Juan enters eagerly into Muriel's world of glamour and prestige, but as time passes he is troubled by many questions that seem to have no answer. Why does Muriel hate Beatriz? How did Beatriz meet Van Vechten? And what happened in the chaotic years after the war?As Juan learns more about his employers, his own innocence begins to fall away. Though he starts off as a mere observer, he is soon unable to stand on the side lines, compelled to interfere ever more dangerously in the dark interior of other people's lives.Marias presents a study of the infinitely permeable boundaries between private and public selves, between observer and participant, between the deceptions we suffer from others and those we enact upon ourselves. .
970 Руб.
Marias Javier All Souls
All Souls is a compelling black comedy of Oxford life by Javier Marias, whose highly-anticipated new novel The Infatuations is published in 2013. This Penguin Modern Classics edition features a new Introduction by John Banville, author of The Sea. The pretty young tutor Clare Bayes attracts many eyes at an Oxford college dinner, not least those of a visiting Spanish lecturer (desperate to escape his conversation with an obese economist about an eighteenth-century cider tax). As they begin an affair, meeting in hotel bedrooms away from the eyes of Clare's husband, the Spaniard finds himself increasingly drawn into the strange world of Oxford, 'one of the cities in the world where the least work gets done', in a story of lust, loneliness, vanity and memory. Filled with brilliant set pieces and pin-sharp observation, All Souls is a masterpiece of black humour.
2421 Руб.
Marias Javier Tomas Nevinson
Tras la aclamadaBerta Isla, llegaTomas Nevinson. Una intriga absorbente sobre quienes nunca olvidan. Uno De Los Mejores Libros De 2021 Segunel Cultural,Babelia, El Mundo, La Vanguardia, El Huffposty Gq Novela Ganadora Del Premio Gregor Von Rezzori - Ciudad De Florencia "Quiza sea la mejor de cuantas Javier Marias ha publicado hasta ahora." Jose-Carlos Mainer,El Pais "Yofuieducado a laantigua, ynuncacrei que mefueran aordenar undia quematara aunamujer. A lasmujeres no se lastoca, no se lespega, no se leshacedano..." Dos hombres, uno en la ficcion y otro en la realidad, tuvieron la oportunidad de matar a Hitler antes de que este desencadenara la Segunda Guerra Mundial. A partir de este hecho, Javier Marias explora el enves del "No mataras". Si esos hombres quiza debieron disparar contra elFuhrer, ?cabe la posibilidad de hacerlo contra alguien mas? Como dice el narrador deTomasNevinson, "ya se ve que matar no es tan extremo ni tan dificil e injusto si se sabe a quien". Tomas Nevinson, marido de Berta Isla, cae en la tentacion de volver a los Servicios Secretos tras haber estado fuera, y se le propone ir a una ciudad del noroeste para identificar a una persona, medio espanola y medio norirlandesa, que participo en atentados del IRA y de ETA diez anos atras. Estamos en 1997. El encargo lleva el sello de su ambiguo ex-jefe Bertram Tupra, que ya, mediante un engano, habia condicionado su vida anterior. La novela, mas alla de su trama, es una profunda reflexion sobre los limites de lo que se puede hacer, sobre la mancha que casi siempre trae la evitacion del mal mayor y sobre la dificultad de determinar cual es ese mal. Con el trasfondo de episodios historicos de terrorismo, Tomas Nevinson es tambien la historia de que le sucede a quien ya le habia sucedido todo y a quien, aparentemente, nada mas podia ocurrir. Pero, mientras no terminan, todos los dias llegan... Lacritica hadicho: "Imposible decidir si es su mejor novela; es, en todo caso, una de las que mas van a atraer." J. A. Masoliver Rodenas,La Vanguardia "Siempre que leo a Marias tengo la sensacion que estoy escuchando una sinfonia." Julia Navarro,Hoy por Hoy "Una historia poderosa con un pulso gigantesco. [...] Una asombrosa reproduccion de la realidad. [...]La novela es brutal." Antonio Lucas,El Mundo "Me gustaria estar en la piel de alguien que todavia no haya leido la ultima novela de Javier Marias y le este esperando en una libreria. Menudo festin le aguarda." Jose Carlos Llop,The Objective "Marias escribe como siempre, como nadie, [...] porque esta a otra cosa, a elevarnos, a hacer #por que no# con nosotros lo que Shakespeare hizo con su tiempo y las gentes de su tiempo." Alberto Olmos,El Confidencial "Su novela definitiva." Karina Sainz Borgo,Vozpopuli "Aqui esta Javier Marias reflexivo, el ironico, el comediante, el severo, [...] el romantico y el pesimista sin aspavientos. [...]Ojala la disfruten tanto como yo." Manuel Rodriguez Rivero,Babelia "Extraordinaria." Nadal Suau,El Cultural
4076 Руб.
Marias Javier Berta Isla
Premio de la Critica - Premio Dulce Chacon de Narrativa Espanola - Premio Lettura 2018 deIl Corriere della Sera (Italia) Mejor libro del ano segunBabelia (El Pais). Seleccionado entre los mejores libros del ano en ABC Cultural y La Vanguardia y recomendado por El Periodico y La Razon. Un dia cualquiera, "un dia estupido", condicionara el resto de su existencia. Berta Isla es la envolvente y apasionante historia de una espera. "Durante un tiempo no estuvo segura de si su marido era su marido. A veces creia que si, a veces creia que no, y a veces decidia no creer nada y seguir viviendo su vida con el, o con aquel hombre semejante a el, mayor que el. Pero tambien ella se habia hecho mayor por su cuenta, en su ausencia, era muy joven cuando se caso. " Muy jovenes se conocieron Berta Isla y Tomas Nevinson en Madrid, y muy pronta fue su determinacion de pasar la vida juntos, sin sospechar que los aguardaba una convivencia intermitente y despues una desaparicion. Tomas, medio espanol y medio ingles, es un superdotado para las lenguas y los acentos, y eso hace que, durante sus estudios en Oxford, la Corona ponga sus ojos en el. Un dia cualquiera, "un dia estupido" que se podria haber ahorrado, condicionara el resto de su existencia, asi como la de su mujer. Berta Isla es la envolvente y apasionante historia de una espera y de una evolucion, la de su protagonista. Tambien de la fragilidad y la tenacidad de una relacion amorosa condenada al secreto y a la ocultacion, al fingimiento y a la conjetura, y en ultima instancia al resentimiento mezclado con la lealtad. O, como dice una cita de Dickens hacia el final del libro, es la muestra de que "cada corazon palpitante es un secreto para el corazon mas proximo, el que dormita y late a su lado". Y es tambien la historia de quienes quieren parar desgracias e intervenir en el universo, para acabar encontrandose desterrados de el. Resenas: "Una novela maravillosa. [...]Berta Isla recuerda por que la ficcion, en manos de sus mejores practicantes, sigue siendo la unica forma de conocernos cabalmente." Juan Gabriel Vasquez, Babelia "Marias ha dado una extraordinaria vuelta de tuerca a su propia obra, alcanzando una precision, y emocion, y misterio, como hoy uno no encuentra en buena parte de sus contemporaneos. Soberbia." Fernando R. Lafuente, ABC Cultural "Marias ha forjado una obra maestra [...]. La gran literatura vuelve a estar escrita en espanol, para privilegio nuestro." Jose Maria Pozuelo Yvancos, ABC Cultural "Creo queBerta Isla es una de las mejores -quiza la mejor- novelas de Marias. [...] Admiro su capacidad para ahondar en lo mas recondito del ser humano." Julia Navarro, ABC Cultural "Berta Isla es una de las mas complejas y atrevidas novelas del autor y, sin duda, la mas inquietante y desolada." Jose-Carlos Mainer, Babelia "La autenticidad, sumada al talento narrativo, es una de las grandes virtudes de Marias. Berta Isla es un magnifico ejemplo." J. A. Masoliver Rodenas, La Vanguardia "Lo que cabe en Berta Isla somos nosotros. Aquello que nos impulsa y que nos duele. Lo que no sabemos, pero sospechamos." Antonio Lucas, El Mundo "De nuevo Javier Marias ha fraguado una novela excepcional. Como instalado en una altisima cota de calidad literaria, el talento del escritor no desfallece ni se conforma con los caminos ya explorados." Domingo Rodenas, El Periodico
3355 Руб.
Marias Javier The Infatuations
The Infatuations is a critically acclaimed novel by the great Spanish writer Javier Marias. Every day, Maria Dolz stops for breakfast at the same cafe. And every day she enjoys watching a handsome couple who follow the same routine. Then one day they aren't there, and she feels obscurely bereft. It is only later, when she comes across a newspaper photograph of the man, lying stabbed in the street, his shirt half off, that she discovers who the couple are. Some time afterwards, when the woman returns to the cafe with her children, who are then collected by a different man, and Maria approaches her to offer her condolences, an entanglement begins which sheds new light on this apparently random, pointless death. With The Infatuations, Javier Marias brilliantly reimagines the murder novel as a metaphysical enquiry, addressing existential questions of life, death, love and morality.
3169 Руб.
Marias Javier Berta Isla
A thrilling new literary offering from the acclaimed author of The Infatuations and A Heart So White 'For a while, she wasn't sure that her husband was her husband. Sometimes she thought he was, and sometimes not...' Berta Isla and Tomas Nevinson meet in Madrid. Young and in love, they quickly decide to spend their lives together - never suspecting that they will grow to be total strangers, both living under the shadow of disappearances. Tomas, half-Spanish and half-English, has an extraordinary gift for languages and accents. Leaving Berta to study at Oxford, he catches the interest of a certain government agency, and its mysterious agent, Bertram Tupra. Tomas is determined to evade the agent's attentions but his fate is sealed by an escalating series of events that will affect the rest of his life - and that of his beloved Berta. Finishing his time at Oxford, he returns to Madrid to marry her, already knowing that the life they planned has been lost forever. Darkly gripping, Berta Isla examines a relationship condemned to secrecy and concealment, to pretence and conjecture, to resentment mingled with loyalty. With meticulous insight and understanding of the human soul, Marias examines the urge to change our destiny, and the hopeless exile we bring upon ourselves.
3486 Руб.
Marias Javier Tomas Nevinson
Spain in the 1990s is beset by a simmering campaign of terror from Basque separatists ETA, with periodic atrocities shattering an illusory calm. Against this backdrop, retired British Secret Service member Tomas Nevinson - now living a quiet life in his hometown Madrid - is approached by his sinister former handler, Bertram Tupra, with an offer to bring him back in from the cold, for one last assignment: a favour for Tupra, for old times' sake, which is also a favour for a powerful Spanish friend. His mission: to go back undercover, in a small Spanish town, to find out which of three women who moved there a decade ago is in fact an ETA terrorist, on loan from the IRA, now on the run and living there incognito. Everything about the assignment is shadowy - from who exactly Nevinson will be working for to the question of what 'justice' he may need to mete out if he is somehow able to unmask one of the three women. But, still in his forties and lured by the appeal of once again being on the inside, he accepts the job. As he gets closer to the three women, his task becomes ever harder. How - or who - to choose between these three? Intimately involved with each of them, as lover, colleague or friend, he can find no firm clue to resolve the question. But under increasing pressure from his paymasters, choose - and act - he apparently must… Charting a world where right and wrong, and good and evil, are irreparably blurred, Javier Marias takes us on a journey of rare and unforgettable suspense in this, the final novel written before his untimely passing in 2022.
5251 Руб.
Marias Javier Dark Back of Time
Dark Back of Time is a compelling story of the way in which reality blurs into fiction by Javier Marias, whose highly-anticipated new novel The Infatuations is published in 2013. It is translated by Esther Allen in Penguin Modern Classics. 'We lose everything because everything remains except us', says the mysterious narrator of this extraordinary novel, which meditates on the transience, chance and fragility of life. As a man called Javier Marias recalls the strange events and people that shaped his past, including ghostly literary figures, a pilot, an adventurer, a brother who died as a child and the king of an island in the Caribbean, we begin to question the nature of time, memory and reality itself. Here the writer is both a keeper of memories and a purveyor of illusions, destined to be lost in the dark back of time. Javier Marias 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.
2608 Руб.
Marias Javier A Heart So White
A Heart so White is the breathtaking international bestseller and IMPAC Award-winning masterpiece by Javier Marias, 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 edges closer to the truth, he begins to question his own relationships, and whether he really wants to know what happened. Haunting and unsettling, A Heart So White is a breathtaking portrayal of two generations, two marriages, the relentless power of the past and the terrible price of knowledge.
2423 Руб.
Marias Javier When I Was Mortal
A collection of chilling tales, ironic, unsettling, imbued with dread and with droll humour 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 Marias' short tales cast a shrewd, sardonic eye on humanity.
2529 Руб.
Marias Javier Madame du Deffand and the Idiots
'She was bored and fought against her boredom, which only bored her still more.' Five sparkling, irreverent brief portraits of famous literary figures (including libertines, eccentrics and rogues) from Spain's greatest living writer. Penguin Modern: fifty new books celebrating the pioneering spirit of the iconic Penguin Modern Classics series, with each one offering a concentrated hit of its contemporary, international flavour. Here are authors ranging from Kathy Acker to James Baldwin, Truman Capote to Stanislaw Lem and George Orwell to Shirley Jackson; essays radical and inspiring; poems moving and disturbing; stories surreal and fabulous; taking us from the deep South to modern Japan, New York's underground scene to the farthest reaches of outer space.
330 Руб.
Свитер MANGO, размер M, зеленый
Джемпер Mango MARIAS имеет прямой силуэт, длинные рукава и воротник-гольф. Отсутствие капюшона делает его универсальным и подходящим для ношения в любое время года.Выбирая джемпер Mango MARIAS, вы получаете стильный, качественный и удобный предмет гардероба, который будет служить вам долгие годы.
3999 Руб.
Свитер MANGO, размер L, зеленый
Джемпер Mango MARIAS имеет прямой силуэт, длинные рукава и воротник-гольф. Отсутствие капюшона делает его универсальным и подходящим для ношения в любое время года.Выбирая джемпер Mango MARIAS, вы получаете стильный, качественный и удобный предмет гардероба, который будет служить вам долгие годы.
3999 Руб.
Marias Javier Tomorrow in the Battle Think on Me
Tomorrow in the Battle Think on Me is a gripping and moving meditation on the hold that the dead have over the living, by Javier Marias, whose highly-anticipated new novel The Infatuations is published in 2013. Victor, a ghostwriter, is just about to have an affair with Marta, a married woman, when - in the bedroom, half-undressed - she drops dead in his arms. He panics and slips away. But Marta's family are all too aware that she was not alone when she died, and Dean, the widowed husband, is determined to find out who was sharing her bed that night. Victor, accustomed to a life of pretending, finds that he cannot live in the shadows forever.
2607 Руб.
Marias Javier Your Face Tomorrow. Volume 1. Fever and Spear
'I am myself my own fever and pain' Jacques Deza has been told he has a gift: he can see through people; guess just from their faces what will become of them. When he encounters the enigmatic Bertram Tupra at a party, Deza is persuaded to join a mysterious underground group. His task: to observe an assortment of people - politicians, celebrities, seemingly ordinary citizens - and predict their next move. But where will Deza's descent into this twilight world eventually take him? The first part of Javier Marias' masterly trilogy asks how well we truly know and understand those around us.
2625 Руб.