Details

ISBN-10: 0811219143
ISBN-13: 9780811219143
Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
Publish Date: 11/13/2012
Dimensions: 7.90" L, 5.30" W, 0.50" H

While the Women Are Sleeping

Translator: Margaret Jull Costa

Paperback

Price: $14.95

Overview

Slippery figures in anomalous situations – ghosts, spies, bodyguards, criminals- haunt these stories by Javier Marías: 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, Marías manages in a small space to perplex and delight. “The short story fits Marías 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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Details

ISBN-10: 0811219143
ISBN-13: 9780811219143
Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
Publish Date: 11/13/2012
Dimensions: 7.90" L, 5.30" W, 0.50" H
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