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Tomorrow in the Battle Think on Me Javier Marias

Tomorrow in the Battle Think on Me By Javier Marias

Tomorrow in the Battle Think on Me by Javier Marias


Summary

Victor, a ghostwriter, is just about to have an affair with Marta, a married woman, when - in the bedroom, half-undressed - she drops dead in his arms. He panics and slips away. But Marta's family are all too aware that she was not alone when she died, and Dean, the widowed husband, is determined to find out who was sharing her bed that night.

Tomorrow in the Battle Think on Me Summary

Tomorrow in the Battle Think on Me by Javier Marias

Tomorrow in the Battle Think on Me is a gripping and moving meditation on the hold that the dead have over the living, by Javier Marias, whose highly-anticipated new novel The Infatuations is published in 2013.

Victor, a ghostwriter, is just about to have an affair with Marta, a married woman, when - in the bedroom, half-undressed - she drops dead in his arms. He panics and slips away. But Marta's family are all too aware that she was not alone when she died, and Dean, the widowed husband, is determined to find out who was sharing her bed that night. Victor, accustomed to a life of pretending, finds that he cannot live in the shadows forever.

Tomorrow in the Battle Think on Me Reviews

Marias writes with elegance, wit and masterful suspense * The Times Literary Supplement *
The narrative runs like a psychological thriller, with macabre and comic interludes: the narrator handles it as a master of artistry and ambiguity * Independent on Sunday *
Compelling, brilliant, perceptive, startling * Washington Post *

About Javier Marias

Javier Marias was born in Madrid in 1951 and died in 2022. He published fifteen novels, three collections of short stories and several volumes of essays. His work has been translated into forty-three languages and has won a dazzling array of international literary awards, including the prestigious Dublin IMPAC award for A Heart So White. He was also a highly practised translator into Spanish of English authors, including Joseph Conrad, Robert Louis Stevenson, Sir Thomas Browne and Laurence Sterne. He held academic posts in Spain, the United States and in Britain, as Lecturer in Spanish Literature at Oxford University.

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GOR011794797
9780141199986
0141199989
Tomorrow in the Battle Think on Me by Javier Marias
Used - Like New
Paperback
Penguin Books Ltd
20120802
320
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