WINNER OF THE IMPAC DUBLIN AWARD – Widely considered a masterpiece, a breathtaking novel about family secrets that chronicles the relentless power of the past–from the award-winning author of The Infatuations and “Spain’s best writer” (Roberto Bola?o, national bestselling author of The Savage Detectives).
Juan knows little of the interior life of his father Ranz; but when Juan marries, he begins to consider the past anew, and begins to ponder what he doesn’t really want to know. Secrecy–its possible convenience, its price, and even its civility–hovers throughout the novel. A Heart So White becomes a sort of anti-detective story of human nature. Intrigue; the sins of the father; the fraudulent and the genuine; marriage and strange repetitions of violence: Mar?as elegantly sends shafts of inquisitory light into shadows and onto the costs of ambivalence.
Author: Javier MarÃas
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Published: 03/26/2013
Series: Vintage International
Pages: 304
Weight: 0.5lbs
Size: 7.97h x 5.15w x 0.71d
ISBN: 9780307950765
Language: English
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