While the Women Are Sleeping

Author:   Javier Marías ,  Margaret Jull Costa ,  Margaret Jull Costa
Publisher:   New Directions Publishing Corporation
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9780811219143


Pages:   144
Publication Date:   20 November 2012
Format:   Paperback
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"Slippery figures in anomalous situations - ghosts, spies, bodyguards, criminals- haunt these stories by Javier Marias: the characters come bearing their strange and special secrets, and never leave our minds. In one story, a man obsessed with his much younger lover endlessly videotapes her every move,and then confides his surprising plans for her; in another, a ghost can't stop resigning from his job. Masterfully, Marias manages in a small space to perplex and delight. ""The short story fits Marias like a glove,"" as Le point noted. His stories have been hailed as ""formidably intelligent"" (The London Review of Books), ""a bracing tonic"" (The Chicago Tribune), and ""startling"" (The New York Times Book Review)."

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Author:   Javier Marías ,  Margaret Jull Costa ,  Margaret Jull Costa
Publisher:   New Directions Publishing Corporation
Imprint:   New Directions Publishing Corporation
Dimensions:   Width: 13.70cm , Height: 1.30cm , Length: 20.30cm
Weight:   0.182kg
ISBN:  

9780811219143


ISBN 10:   0811219143
Pages:   144
Publication Date:   20 November 2012
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In stock   Availability explained
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Javier Marias 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 is the award-winning translator of works by Eca de Quieros, Javier Marias, and Jose Saramago.

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