Books by Javier Marías

Forelskelser er en fængslende roman om kærlighedens gåder og skæbens magt fra en af Spaniens absolut største forfattere: Javier Marias. María Dolz kan ikke slippe tanken om det lykkelige ægtepar Deverne, som hun hver dag iagttager på en cafe i Madrid. Især ikke, da hun opdager, at den forelskede Miguel Deverne er fundet død efter et brutalt knivoverfald. Hvad var den den lykkelige historie egentlig om de to? Og er forelskelse i det hele taget en god ting for os mennesker?

Javier Mar¿ is the author of sixteen works in Spanish, which have been translated into forty-five languages including English. His translated English works are All Souls, A Heart So White, Tomorrow in the Battle Think on Me, When I Was Mortal, Dark Back of Time, The Man of Feeling, Voyage Along the Horizon, Written Lives, the Your Face Tomorrow trilogy (Fever and Spear, Dance and Dream and Poison, Shadow and Farewell), Bad Nature, While the Women Are Sleeping, The Infatuations, Thus Bad Begins and, Venice, An Interior. Javier Mar¿ 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.

Javier Mar¿ is the author of sixteen works in Spanish, which have been translated into forty-five languages including English. His translated English works are All Souls, A Heart So White, Tomorrow in the Battle Think on Me, When I Was Mortal, Dark Back of Time, The Man of Feeling, Voyage Along the Horizon, Written Lives, the Your Face Tomorrow trilogy (Fever and Spear, Dance and Dream and Poison, Shadow and Farewell), Bad Nature, While the Women Are Sleeping, The Infatuations, Thus Bad Begins and, Venice, An Interior. Javier Mar¿ 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.

Poison, Shadow, and Farewell, with its heightened tensions between meditations and noir narrative, with its wit and and ever deeper forays into the mysteries of consciousness, brings to a stunning finale Marías's three-part Your Face Tomorrow. Already this novel has been acclaimed "exquisite" (Publishers Weekly), "gorgeous" (Kirkus), and "outstanding: another work of urgent originality" (London Independent). Poison, Shadow, and Farewell takes our hero Jaime Deza-hired by MI6 as a person of extraordinarily sophisticated powers of perception-back to Madrid to both spy on and try to protect his own family, and into new depths of love and loss, with a fluency on the subject of death that could make a stone weep.

Every day, Maria Dolz stops for breakfast at the same cafe. And every day she enjoys watching a handsome couple who follow the same routine. Then one day they aren't there, and she feels obscurely bereft.

'We lose everything because everything remains except us'. In this book, the author recalls the strange events and people that shaped his past, including ghostly literary figures, a pilot, an adventurer, a brother who died as a child and the king of an island in the Caribbean, we begin to question the nature of time, memory and reality itself.

On a train journey from Paris to Madrid a young opera singer becomes fascinated by those in his compartment: a middle-aged businessman, his alluring wife and their male travelling companion. Soon his life of constant travel, luxury hotels, rehearsal and performance will become entangled with these three people.

All Souls is a captivating novel by the renowned author Javier Marias. Published in 2012 by Penguin Books Ltd, this book stands as a testament to Marias' literary prowess. The genre of the book is a unique blend of fiction and reality, offering readers an intriguing and thought-provoking narrative. The story is set in the backdrop of a renowned university and revolves around the life of a Spanish professor. Marias' adept storytelling and eloquent prose make this book a must-read. All Souls is a book that will stay with you long after you've turned the last page. Published by Penguin Books Ltd, this novel is a testament to their commitment to bringing quality literature to readers around the world.

In the middle of a family lunch Teresa, just married, goes to the bathroom, unbuttons her blouse and shoots herself in the heart. What made her kill herself immediately after her honeymoon?

Revealing that Conrad actually hated sailing and Emily Bronte was so tough she was known as 'The Major', among many other stories of eccentricity, drunkenness and even murder, this book uses unusual angles and peculiar details to illuminate writers' lives in a new way.

A dapper Paris doctor dispenses a treatment for dissatisfied wives. A mother auditions for her first porn movie. A writer working on a study of pain makes himself the subject of his experiments. A voyeur mistakes a murderer for a fellow peeping tom... these are some of the characters observed by the narrator of these chilling stories.

Den prisvindende spanske forfatter Javier Marías skildrer i Ondt er begyndt en hustand, der lever i skyggen af en uhyggelig fortid og udforsker, hvor grusomme vi kan være over for dem, vi elsker. Spanien 1980, lige efter Francos død. Den 23-årige Juan de Vere bliver hyret til et job – og det kommer til at forfølge ham resten af livet. Eduardo Muriel er en kendt filminstruktør, han er beleven og diskret – et uimodståeligt idol for en ung mand. Muriels kone, Beatriz, er en sanselig og moden kvinde, der glider gennem sin mands hjem som et uønsket spøgelse og finder trøst i andres senge. I periferien står Jorge Van Vechten, den mystiske familieven, der knyttes til en række dystre rygter. "Marías er Spaniens egen moderne Cervantes ... Hans stil er mindre spektakulær end Umberto Ecos og vittigere og mere legesyg end Elena Ferrantes." - Sunday Times