A Heart So White
by:
Javier Marías (author)
Winner of the IMPAC Dublin Award, and widely considered Javier Marías'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...
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Winner of the IMPAC Dublin Award, and widely considered Javier Marías'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 consider the past anew, and begins to ponder what he doesn't really want to know. Secrecy--its possible convenience, its price, and even its civility--hovers throughout the novel. A Heart So White becomes a sort of anti-detective story of human nature. Intrigue; the sins of the father; the fraudulent and the genuine; marriage and strange repetitions of violence: Marías elegantly sends shafts of inquisitory light into shadows and onto the costs of ambivalence.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780307950765 (030795076X)
ASIN: 030795076X
Publish date: March 26th 2013
Publisher: Vintage
Pages no: 304
Edition language: English
Category:
Novels,
Love,
Literature,
European Literature,
Cultural,
Book Club,
Literary Fiction,
20th Century,
Contemporary,
Roman,
Spanish Literature,
Spain
Recommended by El; looks cool.
“I did not want to know but I have since come to know that one of the girls, when she wasn’t a girl any more and hadn’t long been back from her honeymoon, went into the bathroom, stood in front of the mirror, unbuttoned her blouse, took off her bra and aimed her own father’s gun at her heart, her fa...
There are so many layers to this book. You have to be willing to give it time, especially in the first third or so, when Marías writes long, intricate, sentences that fold back on themselves, with parentheses within parentheses. Through this style, Marías presents the thoughts and interpretations of...
Javier Marias escribe para el lector...si es tiene sentido?? Su lenguaje es exquisito y sus anecdotas son fantasticas...este libro es brillante.