| Your Face Tomorrow: Fever and Spear Contributor(s): Marías, Javier (Author), Costa, Margaret Jull (Translator) |
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ISBN: 0811217272 ISBN-13: 9780811217279 Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation OUR PRICE: $17.96 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: September 2007 Annotation: Part spy novel, part Henry James, "Fever and Spear" opens the unfolding seductive metaphysical thriller "Your Face Tomorrow" by Javier Marias, "Spain's most erudite literary export" ("The Independent" [London]). Acclaiming in "The New Yorker" "the clandestine greatness of Javier Marias," Wyatt Mason called "Your Face Tomorrow: Volume One, Fever and Spear," "Marias's most extravagant showcase for 'literary thinking' so far. It also serves as a compelling introduction to his writing." "Fever and Spear," the first volume of Marias's ongoing novel Your Face Tomorrow, launches the reader at once on a literary adventure and into the peculiar world of British intelligence. Our Spanish hero Jaime Deza possesses very sophisticated powers of perception. He has the rare gift for seeing behind the masks people wear. Lured into observing interviews conducted by Her Majesty's Secret Service, he studies variously shady international business people one day and would-be coup leaders the next. But Deza is stepping into shady areas of his own....This strange and original intellectual thriller has been acclaimed "exquisite" ("Publishers Weekly"), "gorgeous" ("Kirkus"), and "outstanding" ("Independent" [London]). |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Literary |
| Dewey: FIC |
| LCCN: 2005000992 |
| Series: New Directions Books |
| Physical Information: 1.17" H x 6.37" W x 8.02" (1.01 lbs) 400 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Part spy novel, part romance, part Henry James, Your Face Tomorrow is a wholly remarkable display of the immense gifts of Javier Marias. With Fever and Spear, Volume One of his unfolding novel Your Face Tomorrow, he returns us to the rarified world of Oxford (the delightful setting of All Souls and Dark Back of Time), while introducing us to territory entirely new--espionage. Our hero, Jaime Deza, separated from his wife in Madrid, is a bit adrift in London until his old friend Sir Peter Wheeler--retired Oxford don and semi-retired master spy--recruits him for a new career in British Intelligence. Deza possesses a rare gift for seeing behind the masks people wear. He is soon observing interviews conducted by Her Majesty's secret service: variously shady international businessmen one day, would-be coup leaders the next. Seductively, this metaphysical thriller explores past, present, and future in the ever-more-perilous 21st century. This compelling and enigmatic tour de force from one of Europe's greatest writers continues with Volume Two, Dance and Dream. |
Contributor Bio(s): Marias, Javier: - Javier Marías is an award-winning Spanish novelist. He is also a translator and columnist, as well as the current king of Redonda. He was born in Madrid in 1951 and published his first novel at the age of nineteen. He has held academic posts in Spain, the US (he was a visiting professor at Wellesley College) and Britain, as a lecturer in Spanish Literature at Oxford University. He has been translated into 34 languages, and more than six million copies of his books have been sold worldwide. In 1997 he won the Nelly Sachs Award; the Comunidad de Madrid award in 1998; in 2000 the Grinzane Cavour Award, the Alberto Moravia Prize, and the Dublin IMPAC Award. He also won the Spanish National Translation Award in 1979 for his translation of Tristram Shandy in 1979. He was a professor at Oxford University and the Complutense of Madrid. He currently lives in Madrid.Costa, Margaret Jull: - MARGARET JULL COSTA is a three-time winner of the Oxford-Weidenfeld Translation Prize. For New Directions, she has translated works by Rafael Chirbes, Javier Marías, Fernando Pessoa, Eça de Queirós, and Enrique Vila-Matas. |