by Javier Marías
bookshelves: winter-20142015, spain, published-1994, lit-richer, translation, play-dramatisation, noir, contemporary, madrid, radio-4, mystery-thriller, dodgy-narrator, doo-lally Recommended for: BBC Radio Listeners Read from February 18 to March 01, 2015 http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b053693...
If you are struck by the beauty of a thought or an idea, just having ventured into Tomorrow in the Battle Think on Me's world, do not bother to highlight! It is with high probability that you are going to read this exact same thought or idea further on. It may sound exciting the first time around an...
This novel blew me away and I'm still working to fit my pieces together. I got lost into Marías' winding train of thoughts and I'm still trying to find my way back to reality. What was it that I liked so much about this novel? Well, everything: the plot, the subtle humor, the flow of words, the idea...
My first clue to the structure of this novel, or the first one that I twigged to, was the recurrent untied shoelace. Untied shoelaces kept popping up, for no apparent reason. What is the significance of untied shoelaces that appear on pages 38, 80, 88, 112, 113, 131, 132, 136, 230, 238? I still d...
It's probably a 5 star novel. I enjoyed it very much, just not quite as much as the Your Face Tomorrow trilogy, or All Souls or Dark Back of Time. And I found it a little bit irritating, the way he kept using the phrase "dark back of time," in this novel. I know that he is always a bit self-referent...
Incredible! In-freakin’-credible.! This is one of those titles you want to recommend to everyone, but you know damned well that it isn’t going to be everyone’s cup of tea—one of those novels that folds up on itself into something origami-like—a piece of paper manipulated into a work of art something...
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