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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. He has held academic posts in Spain, the United States and in Britain, as Lecturer in Spanish Literature at Oxford University.
Dark Back of Time is one of the best Spanish novels of the twentieth century Julia Ortega, Brown University It leaves you with an impression of having been haunted: the most complex, perfect and outstanding of Marias' novels Reforma Neither essay nor novel, Javier Marias' most recent book is, quite simply, magnificent. As a book, it is funny, even hilarious, and at times profound, obsessive, and overwhelming. Le Monde The author knows how to dive into the formidable chasms of life, fate and death El Pais I was enthralled by his strange mix of made-up memories, lost experiences and real-life fantasies -- Marina Warner Guardian Shows sensitivity in exploring an entire shadowland of human experience just beyond the reach of words, and could be said to be a culminating point in the author's career The Times Literary Supplement
