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Javier Marias is the author of sixteen works in Spanish, which have been translated into forty-five languages. His works include Berta Isla, The Infatuations, the Your Face Tomorrow trilogy, Between Eternities and Venice, An Interior. Javier Marias has received numerous literary prizes including the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award and the Prix Formentor. He lives and works as a translator and columnist in Madrid.
A writer who loves the propulsiveness of the thriller, the page-turning compulsion that drives a reader through Eric Ambler or John le Carré * Financial Times * Mariás demonstrates why so many of his peers believe him to be among the greatest of contemporary novelists * The Herald * This is a spy thriller, but it reads like one transposed into music . . . Marías mesmerises us again and we are swept on by the long, powerful swells of his prose * Guardian * The most subtle and gifted writer in contemporary Spanish literature * Boston Globe * A Marías sentence is a place of infinite richness and surprises * Independent * No one else, anywhere, is writing quite like this * Daily Telegraph * Unquestionably the most significant Spanish writer of his generation * Observer * [Marías] uses language like an anatomist uses a scalpel to lay bare the innermost secrets of that strangest of species, the human being -- W. G. Sebald What makes Marías novels enthralling . . . is the irresistible, ruminative, allusive, Jamesian narrative voice * Daily Telegraph * A Spanish literary great . . . His writing is fine and subtle * Le Monde * Javier Marías's writing doesn't resemble anyone else's. It's easy to parody, but impossible to imitate . . . Javier Marias was the best writer in Spain -- Eduardo Mendoza Marías occupied a reputational perch in Spanish culture that would be almost inconceivable for an American author . . . Most considered him the greatest living Spanish writer * New York Times *
