by Philip Rafferty | Feb 22, 2017 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), General Fiction, Mystery, Crime & Thriller
Javier Marias is the author of more than a dozen novels and his Your Face Tomorrow trilogy has been lauded by some as the greatest European work of the 21st century. Marias’ work is always a high literary endeavor, Marias himself an anglophile who got into the...
by Site Owner | Feb 3, 2014 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), General Fiction
By Javier Marias, Translated by Margaret Jull Costa Alfred A. Knopf, $26.95, 338 pages It is the habit of María Dolz, a prudent young woman who works in a nearby publishing house, to have breakfast every morning before work at a certain café in Madrid. There, she...