Overview:
A breathtaking novel about family secrets, winner of the 1997 Dublin IMPAC Prize for the best novel published worldwide in English, and arguably Javier Marías's masterpiece.
A Heart So White, probably Javier Marías, best-known novel, chronicles with unnerving insistence family secrets -and the relentless power of the past. Juan knows little of the interior life of his father Ranz; each has always seemed comfortable with their friendly but distant orbit. Only when Juan marries (and his new wife begins to find much to talk about with Ranz) does his son consider the past anew, and yet he doesn´t really want to know. Secrecy, its possible convenience and even civility, hovers throughout the novel -it is a sort of anti-detective story of human nature The sins of the father; the fraudulent and the genuine; marriage and strange repetitions of violence: Marías elegantly send shafts of inquisitor light into shadows. At the center of A Heart So White are the costs of ambivalence. ("My hands are of your colour; but I shame/To wear a heart so white" Shakespeare´s Macbeth )
"There is nothing like this in contemporary literature. A book of genius" Das literarische Quartett
"As quirkly as it is brilliant... An entertaining and intelligent novel" Washington Post
"The writing shows enormous cunning and a fiendish degree of patience! Nouvel Observateur
"Immense talent... a landmark (by) a genuine artist" Le Monde
"The work of a supreme stylist... The two protagonists´ civilized but complex marriages recall the compelling intricacies of Henry James... It is brilliantly done." James Woodall, The Times (London)
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And Blessed Are The Ones Who Care For Their Fellow Men!
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