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A Heart So White (PB) by Javier Marias
22.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
"A Heart so White" is the breathtaking international bestseller and IMPAC Award-winning masterpiece by Javier Marias, whose highly-anticipated new novel "The Infatuations" is published in 2013. This Penguin Modern Classics edition features a new Introduction by Jonathan Coe. "A Heart so White" begins as ...Show more
All Souls by Javier Marias
29.95 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
By one of the most important voices in contemporary world literature, a darkly comic novel about that most British of institutions, Oxford University. In All Souls, a visiting Spanish lecturer, viewing Oxford through a prismatic detachment, is alternately amused, puzzled, delighted, and disgusted by its ...Show more
All Souls by Javier Marias
26.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
"All Souls" is a compelling black comedy of Oxford life by Javier Marias, whose highly-anticipated new novel "The Infatuations" is published in 2013. This Penguin Modern Classics edition features a new Introduction by John Banville, author of "The Sea". The pretty young tutor Clare Bayes attracts many e ...Show more
Berta Isla by Javier Marias
32.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
For a while, she wasn't sure that her husband was her husband. Sometimes she thought he was, and sometimes not.'Berta and Tomas meet in Madrid and, though both young, they decide to spend their lives together. Eighteen and betrothed, Tomas leaves to study at Oxford. His talent for languages quickly catc ...Show more
Berta Isla by Javier Marias
22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
'For a while, she wasn't sure that her husband was her husband. Sometimes she thought he was, and sometimes not.' Berta and Tomas meet in Madrid and, though both young, they decide to spend their lives together. Eighteen and betrothed, Tomas leaves to study at Oxford. His talent for languages quickly ca ...Show more
Between Eternities by Javier Marias
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Category: Culture & Ideas
'A Marías sentence is a place of infinite richness and surprises, full of fascinating byways and glimpses of a distant landscape that hoves into view and then fades away' Independent 'No one else, anywhere, is writing quite like this' Daily Telegraph A new and exhilarating collection of writings from ...Show more
Between Eternities and Other Writings by Javier Marias
32.99 AUD
Category: Culture & Ideas
A new and exhilarating collection of writings from the author of The Infatuations and A Heart So WhiteInternationally renowned writer Javier Marias is a tireless examiner of the world around us, an enthusiastic debunker of pretensions of every kind, and a true polymath. This new collection of essays sho ...Show more
Dark Back of Time by Javier Marias
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Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage International
A book by Spain's greatest living writer weaves fiction and fact into a completely original and unforgettable hybrid. Called by its author a "false novel," Dark Back of Time begins with the tale of the odd effects of publishing All Souls, his witty and sardonic 1989 Oxford novel. All Souls is a book Mar ...Show more
Dark Back of Time by Javier Marias
29.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
"Dark Back of Time" is a compelling story of the way in which reality blurs into fiction by Javier Marias, whose highly-anticipated new novel "The Infatuations" is published in 2013. It is translated by Esther Allen in "Penguin Modern Classics". 'We lose everything because everything remains except us', ...Show more
The Infatuations by Javier Marias
22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: near fine
The Infatuations is a critically acclaimed novel by the great Spanish writer Javier Marias. Every day, Maria Dolz stops for breakfast at the same cafe. And every day she enjoys watching a handsome couple who follow the same routine. Then one day they aren't there, and she feels obscurely bereft. It is o ...Show more
Thus Bad Begins by Javier Marias
32.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
In Thus Bad Begins, prize-winning author Javier Marias examines a household living in the unhappy shadow of history, and explores the cruel, tender punishments we exact on those we love. As a young man, Juan de Vere takes a job that will haunt him for the rest of his life. Eduardo Muriel is a famous fil ...Show more