| Dark Back of Time Contributor(s): Marķas, Javier (Author) |
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ISBN: 0307950743 ISBN-13: 9780307950741 Publisher: Vintage OUR PRICE: $13.50 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: April 2013 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Psychological - Fiction | Literary - Fiction | Biographical |
| Dewey: FIC |
| Series: Vintage International |
| Physical Information: 0.9" H x 5.1" W x 7.9" (0.75 lbs) 336 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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 as swears to be fiction, but which its characters--the real-life dons and professors and bookshop owners who have recognized themselves--fiercely maintain to be a roman clef. With the sleepy world of Oxford set into fretful motion by a world that never existed, Dark Back of Time begins an odyssey into the nature of identity and of time. Mar as weaves together autobiography, a legendary kingdom, strange ghostly literary figures, halls of mirrors, a one-eyed pilot, a curse in Havana, and a bullet lost in Mexico. |