Your Face Tomorrow, libro del año

Books of the year: Fiction

Any year that sees the publication of a novel that one can unhesitatingly judge to be great, belonging to the same demanding but rewarding company as Proust, Conrad and Thomas Mann, is a good one.

It's a bold claim to make but I have no doubt that the Your Face Tomorrow trilogy by Javier Marias comes in that category. I can say so with less hesitation than usual partly because English translations of the first two volumes were published years ago, and so the work has ...