Margaret Jull Costa
Author
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Formats
Description
INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER • NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE FINALIST • From the award-winning, internationally bestselling Spanish author of A Heart So White comes an immersive, provocative novel propelled by a seemingly random murder.
"Sometimes startling, sometimes hilarious, and always intelligent ... Marías [has] a penetrating empathy."—The New York Times Book Review
Each day...
"Sometimes startling, sometimes hilarious, and always intelligent ... Marías [has] a penetrating empathy."—The New York Times Book Review
Each day...
2) On the edge
Author
Publisher
New Directions Publishing Corporation
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
The novel "opens with the discovery of a rotting corpse in the marshes on the outskirts of Olba, Spain--a town wracked by despair after the burst of the economic bubble, and a microcosm of a world of defeat, debt, and corruption. Stuck in this town is Esteban--his small factory bankrupt, his investments stolen by a friend, and his unloved father, a mute invalid, entirely his personal burden. Much of the novel unfolds in Esteban's raw and tormented...
Author
Series
New Directions paperbook volume 1081
Publisher
New Directions Pub. Corp
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
Jamie Deza uses his rare gift of unusual perception after he is drawn into the world of British intelligence, helping Her Majesty's secret service in interviews and studying business people, terrorists, and suspicious characters, and is soon thrown into a dangerous web of intrigue that threatens his future and his life.
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