Format
Häftad (Paperback / softback)
Språk
Engelska
Antal sidor
656
Utgivningsdatum
2024-03-21
Förlag
Penguin Books Ltd
Översättare
Margaret Jull Costa
Originalspråk
Spanish
Medarbetare
Jull Costa, Margaret (afterword)
Dimensioner
198 x 129 x 40 mm
Vikt
450 g
ISBN
9780241568637

Toms Nevinson

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BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023 ACCORDING TO GUARDIAN AND THE SPECTATOR The final novel from one of the greatest writers of the past half century 'No-one nowadays writes prose like Javier Maras . . . If you're already a fan, you'll know what to expect and rejoice. If you're not, what a treat you have in store' The Herald Toms Nevinson, a retired MI6 agent, is working for the British Embassy in Madrid when his former handler, the sinister Bertram Tupra, offers to bring him back inside for one last assignment. His mission: to catch and, if necessary, kill a terrorist gone to ground in Northern Spain after bombings in Barcelona and Zaragoza. The trouble is there are three suspects all women and it may not actually be any of them. To find out, Nevinson must move incognito to the small town where the three women separately live, and become an intimate friend to each, in the hope of uncovering a clue . . . A philosophical thriller with a climate of suspense to rival le Carr and a psychological depth that is purely Mariass own, this is a novel that explores the deepest of human questions: in what circumstances can killing be called just? Translated by Margaret Jull Costa 'The last word from a master . . . once you've been inside Maras' world, to spend too long outside is unbearable' The Sunday Times 'A twisting espionage tale shot through with slantwise humour . . . seductive and inescapably poignant' Observer
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A meditation on thought and consciousness, identity and disguise, the gloriously rolling sentences offer the deep pleasures of a brilliant mind apprehending the world in real time * Guardian, '2023 Summer Reads' * This is a spy thriller, but it reads like one transposed into music . . . Maras mesmerises us again and we are swept on by the long, powerful swells of his prose * Guardian * The last word from a master . . . His writing is often thrilling in a way that's distinct from any other author I know . . . once you've been inside Maras' world, to spend too long outside is unbearable * The Sunday Times * How we will miss the late Javier Maras and his unique genre of slow-motion page-turners, blending thrillery plots with long, equivocating sentences . . . [Toms Nevinson] is full of the complexities, comedy and most of all contradictions that define his work * Guardian, 'Best Translated Novels of 2023' * A writer who loves the propulsiveness of the thriller, the page-turning compulsion that drives a reader through Eric Ambler or John le Carr * Financial Times * Maris demonstrates why so many of his peers believe him to be among the greatest of contemporary novelists * The Herald * The most subtle and gifted writer in contemporary Spanish literature * Boston Globe * A Maras sentence is a place of infinite richness and surprises * Independent * A Spanish literary great . . . His writing is fine and subtle * Le Monde * Javier Maras's writing doesn't resemble anyone else's. It's easy to parody, but impossible to imitate . . . Javier Marias was the best writer in Spain -- Eduardo Mendoza

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Margaret Jull Costa (Afterword by, Translator) Margaret Jull Costa has translated the works of many Spanish and Portuguese writers, among them novelists: Javier Maras, Jos Saramago and Ea de Queiroz, and poets: Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen, Mrio de S-Carneiro, Fernando Pessoa and Ana Lusa Amaral. Her work has brought her numerous prizes, among them, the 2018 Premio Valle-Incln for On the Edge by Rafael Chirbes. In 2013, she was appointed a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and, in 2014, she was awarded an OBE for services to literature. Javier Maras (Author) Javier Maras 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 held academic posts in Spain, the United States and in Britain, as Lecturer in Spanish Literature at Oxford University.