Javier Marías
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"Un día cualquiera, "un día estúpido", condicionará el resto de su existencia. La envolvente y apasionante historia de una espera. "Durante un tiempo no estuvo segura de si su marido era su marido. A veces creía que sí, a veces creía que no, y a veces decidía no creer nada y seguir viviendo su vida con él, o con aquel hombre semejante a él, mayor que él. Pero también ella se había hecho mayor por su cuenta, en su ausencia,...
2) Berta Isla
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"Berta Isla thought she knew what to expect from life. When she was a young girl she decided she had found her match in Tomás Nevinson--the dashing half-Spanish, half-English boy in her class with an extraordinary gift for languages--so she was even able to endure their time apart while Tomás studied at Oxford. But after his graduation, he returns to Madrid a changed man. Distracted, sullen, and anxious, Berta's new husband has become a stranger...
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"Retired spy Tomás Nevinson - once an agent for the British Secret Service, now living a quiet life in his hometown, Madrid - is approached by his former handler, Bertram Tupra, with an offer to bring him back in from the cold for one last assignment. The mission: to go undercover again, in a small Spanish town, to find out which of three women who moved there a decade ago is in fact a terrorist trained by the IRA, on the run after masterminding...
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Tras la aclamada Berta Isla, llega Tomás Nevinson.
Una intriga absorbente sobre quienes nunca olvidan. UNO DE LOS MEJORES LIBROS DE 2021 SEGÚN EL CULTURAL, BABELIA, EL MUNDO, LA VANGUARDIA, EL HUFFPOST Y GQ NOVELA GANADORA DEL PREMIO GREGOR VON REZZORI - CIUDAD DE FLORENCIA «Quizá sea la mejor de cuantas Javier Marías ha publicado hasta ahora.»
José-Carlos Mainer, El País
«Yofuieducado a laantigua, ynuncacreí que mefueran aordenar undía...
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WINNER OF THE IMPAC DUBLIN AWARD • Widely considered a masterpiece, a breathtaking novel about family secrets that chronicles the relentless power of the past—from the award-winning author of The Infatuations and "Spain's best writer" (Roberto Bolaño, national bestselling author of The Savage Detectives).
Juan knows little of the interior life of his father Ranz; but when Juan marries,...
Juan knows little of the interior life of his father Ranz; but when Juan marries,...
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INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER • NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE FINALIST • From the award-winning, internationally bestselling Spanish author of A Heart So White comes an immersive, provocative novel propelled by a seemingly random murder.
"Sometimes startling, sometimes hilarious, and always intelligent ... Marías [has] a penetrating empathy."—The New York Times Book Review
Each day...
"Sometimes startling, sometimes hilarious, and always intelligent ... Marías [has] a penetrating empathy."—The New York Times Book Review
Each day...