Your Face Tomorrow, Volume 1

Fever and Spear

Javier Marías

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Penguin
15 March 2018

Fiction & Literature; Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

Series: Penguin Modern Classics

Volume one of Javier Marias's acclaimed and evocative 'novel in parts'

Recently divorced, Jacques Deza moves from Madrid to London to start anew. At a party held by retired don, semi-retired spy and old friend Sir Peter Wheeler, he meets the inscrutable Bertram Tupra. Tupra is impressed by Deza's talent for seeing through people and enlists him in a mysterious group. His mission is to observe an assortment of people including politicians, celebrities and seemingly ordinary citizens with the aim of predicting their next move. Through Deza's descent into the dark world of observation, Marias sculpts a profound meditation on the foundations of human relationships and questions our ability to truly know and understand those around us.

By: Javier Marías
Imprint: Penguin
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 196mm, Width: 130mm, Spine: 28mm
Weight: 280g
ISBN: 9780241288894
ISBN 10: 0241288894
Series: Penguin Modern Classics
Publication Date: 15 March 2018
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Reviews for Your Face Tomorrow, Volume 1: Fever and Spear

An intriguing and audacious experiment * Sunday Times * He has as gift for the wickedly comic set piece...He seems incapable of writing a thoughtless or throwaway sentence.We need more novelists like Marias * Independent on Sunday * Your Face Tomorrow is already being compared with Proust and rightly so. It is a novel of extraordinary subtlety and pathos. The next thing Marias deserves is the Nobel Prize * Observer * You are dazzled by the author's intelligence and understanding of human nature * Scotsman *