Poison, Shadow, and Farewell, with its heightened tensions between meditations and noir narrative, with its wit and and ever deeper forays into the mysteries of consciousness, brings to a stunning finale Marías’s three-part Your Face Tomorrow. Already this novel has been acclaimed “exquisite“ (Publishers Weekly), “gorgeous” (Kirkus), and “outstanding: another work of urgent originality” (London Independent). Poison, Shadow, and Farewell takes our hero Jaime Deza—hired by MI6 as a person of extraordinarily sophisticated powers of perception—back to Madrid to both spy on and try to protect his own family, and into new depths of love and loss, with a fluency on the subject of death that could make a stone weep.
| ISBN: | 9780811218122 |
| Publication date: | 12th February 2010 |
| Author: | Javier Marías |
| Publisher: | New Directions Publishing Corporation |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Pagination: | 556 pages |
| Genres: |
Modern and Contemporary Fiction Translated Fiction |