When I Was Mortal: Novel

Author:   Margaret Jull Costa ,  Javier Marías ,  Margaret Jull Costa
Publisher:   New Directions Publishing Corporation
ISBN:  

9780811214315


Pages:   176
Publication Date:   10 October 2000
Format:   Hardback
Availability:   Out of stock   Availability explained


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When I Was Mortal: Novel


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"These twelve elegant and masterly stories, never before available in English, make a wonderful introduction to the work of Spain's most important contemporary author. When I Was Mortal collects a dozen stories by Javier Marias, ""justly considered the most talented Spanish author alive"" (Il Messaggero). Victims of mistaken identity, amateur sleuths, professional liars, eavesdroppers, assassins, and failed bodyguards populate these remarkable tales. Plots turn on curious exigencies -- a woman about to star in her first porn film; a night doctor who adds new meaning to ""specialist;"" a neglectful ghost."

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Author:   Margaret Jull Costa ,  Javier Marías ,  Margaret Jull Costa
Publisher:   New Directions Publishing Corporation
Imprint:   New Directions Publishing Corporation
Dimensions:   Width: 14.70cm , Height: 2.00cm , Length: 21.30cm
Weight:   0.327kg
ISBN:  

9780811214315


ISBN 10:   0811214311
Pages:   176
Publication Date:   10 October 2000
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Out of Print
Availability:   Out of stock   Availability explained

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Margaret Jull Costa, who has translated Javier Marías and José Saramago, lives in England. 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. Margaret Jull Costa, who has translated Javier Marías and José Saramago, lives in England.

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