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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. Jonathan Coe has written many novels, including The House of Sleep, The Rotters' Club and The Rain Before It Falls. He is also the author of Like A Fiery Elephant, a critical biography of the novelist B. S. Johnson.
As unique as it is brilliant... an entertaining and intelligent novel * Washington Post * The work of a supreme stylist ... It is brilliantly done * James Woodall, The Times * Marias' challenging and seductive technique reaches its pinnacle in A Heart So White * The New York Times * I was enthralled * Marina Warner, Guardian * The most subtle and gifted writer in contemporary Spanish literature * Boston Globe *
