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Mar 28, 2010
Bogdan
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What I like most at Spanish and South American writers is that they really know how to blend successfully philosophy and fiction. And Javier Marias is one of the best in this branch. This is the first novel I read from this well-known Spanish writer, and I was delighted. Although sometimes is hard to focus on some long phrases or author own thoughts in the middle of another character dialogue, I overlooked all this and enjoyed the novel.
My copy of this book is in Romanian.
My copy of this book is in Romanian.
It's probably a 5 star novel. I enjoyed it very much, just not quite as much as the Your Face Tomorrow trilogy, or All Souls or Dark Back of Time. And I found it a little bit irritating, the way he kept using the phrase "dark back of time," in this novel. I know that he is always a bit self-referential, but it just seemed gratuitious here. So I love it, and would recommend it, just not as much as the others.
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Man stays with married woman; woman dies that night. Meanwhile, the woman's husband starts to choke his lover; lover starts to run away from him, is hit by car, and is killed. Long, long sentences. Translated from the Spanish.
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Apr 03, 2013
Seulky
marked it as to-read
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