Javier Marias The Infatuations Paperback Book

The Infatuations is a critically acclaimed novel by the great Spanish writer Javier Maras. Every day, Maria Dolz stops for breakfast at the same caf. And every day she enjoys watching a handsome couple who follow the same routine. Then one day they arent 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, his shirt half off, that she discovers who the couple are. Some time afterwards, when the woman returns to the caf 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. With The Infatuations, Javier Maras brilliantly reimagines the murder novel as a metaphysical enquiry, addressing existential questions of life, death, love and morality. Praise for The InfatuationsMesmerising . . . chillingly clear and hypnotically eerie . . . At this very fine and disturbing novels core is a compelling meditation on love in all its ramifications HeraldKeeps us guessing until almost the last page Financial TimesFew writers have sustained such an engagement with the classic (Anglophone) canon. As a translator he has rendered into Spanish work by Hardy, Yeats, Conrad, Nabokov, Faulkner, Updike, Salinger and many others. As a novelist, he has threaded his work with traces of these writers, and is explicitly underpinned by an empathy with Shakespeare and... | Javier Marias The Infatuations Paperback Book