| Your Face Tomorrow: Dance and Dream Contributor(s): Marías, Javier (Author), Costa, Margaret Jull (Translator) |
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ISBN: 0811217493 ISBN-13: 9780811217491 Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation OUR PRICE: $17.06 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: May 2008 Annotation: "Dance and Dream"--the dazzling second volume of "Your Face Tomorrow," Javier Marias' unfolding literary spy novel in three parts. "Your Face Tomorrow" has been hailed "exquisite" ("Publishers Weekly"), "gorgeous" ("Kirkus"), and "outstanding: another work of urgent originality" ("London Independent"). And now, "Dance and Dream" takes Javier Marias's daring experiential magnum opus out for a new wild ride. Skillfully constructed around a central mesmerizing scene in a nightclub, a scene of real and perplexing horror, "Dance and Dream" again features our hero Jacques Deza. But in Volume Two Deza--hired by MI6 as a person of extraordinarily sophisticated powers of perception--discovers the dark side of his new employers. In a disco, Tupra, his spymaster boss, brings out a sword and uses it in a way that appalls Deza, who remonstrates: "You can't just go around hurting and killing people like that." "Why not?" asks Tupra. |
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| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Literary |
| Dewey: FIC |
| Physical Information: 0.98" H x 5.27" W x 8.03" (0.91 lbs) 288 pages |
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| Publisher Description: Your Face Tomorrow, Javier Marias's dazzling unfolding magnum opus, is a novel in three parts, which began with Volume One: Fever and Spear. Described as a brilliant dark novel (Scotland on Sunday), the book now takes a wild swerve in its new volume. Skillfully constructed around a central perplexing and mesmerizing scene in a nightclub, Volume Two: Dance and Dream again features Jacques Deza. In Volume One he was hired by MI6 as a person of extraordinarily sophisticated powers of perception. In Volume Two Deza discovers the dark side of his new employer when Tupra, his spy-master boss, brings out a sword and uses it in a way that appalls Deza: You can't just go around hurting and killing people like that. Why not? asks Tupra. Searching meditations on favors and jealousy, knowledge and the deep human desire not to know, violence and death play against memories of the Spanish Civil War as Deza's world becomes increasingly murky. |
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. |