Tag Archives: Javier Marias

Thus Bad Begins-Javier Marias

Posted on June 11, 2017 by mandywight

This most recent novel by Javier Marías is set around 1980, four or five years after the death of Franco. Taking this period, la transición, as one of its themes, it depicts a nation coming up for air after nearly … Continue reading →

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Javier Marias- A Heart So White- translated by Margaret Jull Costa

Posted on January 6, 2016 by mandywight

This novel starts with a dramatic event: a young woman, newly wed and just returned from her honeymoon, takes her father’s gun to the bathroom and shoots herself in the heart. The scene of carnage in the bathroom and the … Continue reading →

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