The Infatuations
by Javier Mar?as
- Used
- Paperback
- Condition
- Like New
- ISBN 10
- 0241145376
- ISBN 13
- 9780241145371
- Seller
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Hendersonville, North Carolina, United States
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About This Item
London and New York: Hamish Hamilton. Paperback. Like New. From the award-winning Spanish writer Javier MarÃas comes an extraordinary new book that has been a literary sensation around the world: an immersive, provocative novel propelled by a seemingly random murder that we come to understand or do we? through one woman's ever-unfurling imagination and infatuations.At the Madrid café where she stops for breakfast each day before work, MarÃa Dolz finds herself drawn to a couple who is also there every morning. Though she can hardly explain it, observing what she imagines to be their unblemished life lifts her out of the doldrums of her own existence. But what begins as mere observation turns into an increasingly complicated entanglement when the man is fatally stabbed in the street. MarÃa approaches the widow to offer her condolences, and at the couple's home she meets and falls in love with another man who sheds disturbing new light on the crime. As MarÃa recounts this story, we are given a murder mystery brilliantly reimagined as metaphysical enquiry, a novel that grapples with questions of love and death, guilt and obsession, chance and coincidence, how we are haunted by our losses, and above all, the slippery essence of the truth and how it is told.Paperback. Pictorial cover. 346pp. Full refund if not satisfied.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Shelley and Son Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 039321
- Title
- The Infatuations
- Author
- Javier Mar?as
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- New
- Quantity Available
- 1
- ISBN 10
- 0241145376
- ISBN 13
- 9780241145371
- Publisher
- Hamish Hamilton
- Place of Publication
- London and New York
- This edition first published
- 2013
- X weight
- 16 oz
Terms of Sale
Shelley and Son Books
I offer a full refund if not satisfied as long as the book is returned in the same condition as sent.
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Shelley and Son Books
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Hendersonville, North Carolina
About Shelley and Son Books
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