A second installment of a three-part tale that began with Fever and Spear finds MI6 recruit Jacques Deza discovering a dark side of his employer when Tupra, his spy-master boss, unrepentantly participates in a disturbing act of violence.[...]

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 Marias s three-part Your Face Tomorrow. Already this novel has been acclaimed exquisite (Publish[...]

In a return to the British setting of his much loved novel "All Souls", Javier Marias embarks on a remarkable 'novel in parts', set in the murky world of surveillance and espionage. "Fever and Spear" is the first volume. In it Marias begins to weave a web of intrigue, both narrative and intellectual[...]

Jacques Deza is back in London and once again working for the secret intelligence agency run by his old Oxford friend Bernard Tupra. Deza finds himself increasingly under the spell of his shadowy boss, forced to witness a savage attack on an old man and watch Tupra's collection of incriminating vide[...]

"All Souls" is a compelling black comedy of Oxford life by Javier Marias, whose highly-anticipated new novel "The Infatuations" is published in 2013. This Penguin Modern Classics edition features a new Introduction by John Banville, author of "The Sea". The pretty young tutor Clare Bayes attracts ma[...]

In the dark narratives that make up "When I Was Mortal" by Javier Marias, winner of the Dublin IMPAC prize and author of the bestselling "A Heart So White", 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[...]

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. It is only later, when she comes across a newspaper photograph of the man, lying stabbed in the[...]

A "New York Times Book Review" Notable Book, NPR Great Reads, and "Onion" A.V. Club Best Book of 2013
Each day before work Maria Dolz stops at the same cafe. There she finds herself drawn to a couple who is also there every morning. Observing their seemingly perfect life helps her escape the lis[...]

Winner of the IMPAC Dublin Award, and widely considered Javier Marias's masterpiece, "A Heart So White "is a breathtaking novel about family secrets that chronicles the relentless power of the past.
Juan knows little of the interior life of his father Ranz; but when Juan marries, he begins to co[...]

Una extraordinaria novela sobre los secretos y las sospechas que, poco a poco, van tinendo los corazones blancos hasta que dejan de serlo
Pocos meses despues de su viaje de novios y sin aun haber podido, o querido, adaptarse a su cambio de estado, Juan se entera casi sin querer de que Teresa, la[...]

Das einsprachige, kapitelbegleitende Wörterheft ist dreispaltig aufgebaut: Es enthält den Lernwortschatz des Lehrbuchs, den Wortschatz im Kontext und Leerzeilen zum Eintragen der muttersprachlichen Entsprechung.[...]

The story didn't happen that long ago, yet today it would be impossible. I'm talking about what happened to them, to Eduardo Muriel and his wife, Beatriz Noguera, when they were young, and not about what happened to me with them, when I was the youth and their marriage a long and unbreakable misfort[...]