Thus Bad Begins (Signed Copy)

MARIAS, Javier

ISBN 10: 0241972809 / ISBN 13: 9780241972809

Editore: Hamish Hamilton, London, 2016

Translated from the original Spanish by Margaret Jull Costa. 505 pages + prelims. Black boards in jacket. Condition: The jacket is complete and unclipped, showing the printed price £18.99. The book itself is clean and unmarked, but a little cocked as a result of having been read. Every book is sent in a rigid cardboard posting box. Size: 24 Cm x 16 Cm. Codice articolo 25209F

Riassunto:

Award-winning author Javier Marías examines a household living in the unhappy shadow of history, and explores the cruel, tender punishments we exact on those we love

As a young man, Juan de Vere takes a job that will haunt him for the rest of his life. Eduardo Muriel is a famous film director - urbane, discreet, irreproachable - an irresistible idol to a young man. Muriel's wife Beatriz is a soft, ripe woman who slips through her husband's home like an unwanted ghost, finding solace in other beds. And on the periphery of all their lives stands Dr Jorge Van Vechten, a shadowy family friend implicated in unsavoury rumours that Muriel cannot bear to pursue himself - rumours he asks Juan to investigate instead. But as Juan draws closer to the truth, he uncovers more questions, ones his employer has not asked and would rather not answer. Why does Muriel hate Beatriz? How did Beatriz meet Van Vechten? And what happened during the war?

As Juan learns more about his employers, he begins to understand the conflicting pulls of desire, power and guilt that govern their lives - and his own. Marias presents a study of the infinitely permeable boundaries between private and public selves, between observer and participant, between the deceptions we suffer from others and those we enact upon ourselves.

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Informazioni sull?autore: Javier Marías is the author of sixteen works in Spanish, which have been translated into forty-two 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 Marías 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.

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Titolo: Thus Bad Begins (Signed Copy)
Casa editrice: Hamish Hamilton, London
Data di pubblicazione: 2016
Legatura: Hardcover
Condizione: Near Fine
Condizione sovraccoperta: Fine
autografato: Signed by the Author