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The Infatuations
Every day, Maria Dolz stops for breakfast at the same cafe. And every day she enjoys watching a handsome couple who follow the same routine. Then one day they aren't there, and she feels obscurely bereft.
Every day Maria Dolz sees the same attractive couple breakfast at the cafe she frequents. But one day they do not appear and she feels bereft. Later, she learns that the man was murdered in the street.
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A breathtaking reimagining of the classic themes of love, death, and memory by Spain's greatest living writer.
Every day, Maria Dolz stops for breakfast at the same café. And every day, she enjoys watching a handsome couple who follow the same routine. Then one day, they aren't there, and she feels obscurely bereft.
It is only later, when she comes across a newspaper photograph of the man, lying stabbed in the street, that she discovers who the couple are. Some time afterwards, when the woman returns to the café with her children, who are then collected by a different man, and Maria approaches her to offer her condolences, an entanglement begins which sheds new light on this apparently random, pointless death.
The Infatuations explores the mysterious nature of love, the unreliability of memory, and the risk of obsession, presented through the lens of an everyday routine turned tragically extraordinary.
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Javier Marías's The Infatuations has been praised for its mesmerising and disturbing narrative, offering a deep meditation on love, life, and death. The novel is applauded for its unique form, cerebral plotting, and absorbing story, making it a haunting and elegant exploration of classical themes. It's described as both a murder mystery and a suspenseful meditation with a distinctive style.
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ISBN: 9780241958490
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 27 February 2014
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Penguin Books Ltd
Contributors:
- Translated by Margaret Jull Costa
- Translated by Margaret Jull Costa
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 21.0mm
Width: 131.0mm
Height: 197.0mm
Weight: 250g
Pages: 352
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About the Author
Javier Marias was born in Madrid in 1951. He is the author of sixteen works in Spanish, which have been translated into forty-two languages including English. His translated English works are All Souls, A Heart So White, Tomorrow in the Battle Think on Me, When I Was Mortal, Dark Back of Time, The Man of Feeling, Voyage Along the Horizon, Written Lives, the Your Face Tomorrow trilogy (Fever and Spear, Dance and Dream, and Poison, Shadow and Farewell), Bad Nature, While the Women Are Sleeping and The Infatuations. Javier Marias has received numerous literary prizes including the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award and the Prix Formentor, and he is the King of Redonda. He lives and works as a translator and columnist in Madrid, and his forthcoming novel Thus Bad Begins will be published by Hamish Hamilton in March 2016.
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