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Javier Marías' awaited new novel after BERTA ISLA,
TOMÁS NEVINSON «I was educated in the old fashioned way, and I never imagined that I would one day be ordered to kill a woman. Women should not be touched, or harmed, or beaten ... » Two men, one in fiction and one in reality, had the opportunity to kill Hitler before he unleashed World War II. Based on this fact, Javier Marías explores the underside of "You will not kill." If those men should have shot the Führer, is it possible to shoot someone else? As the narrator of Tomás Nevinson says, "you can see that killing is not so extreme or so difficult and unfair if you know who and why." Tomás Nevinson, Berta Isla's husband, falls into the temptation to return to the Secret Services, and is proposed to go to a northwestern city to identify a person, half Spanish and half Northern Irish, who participated in attacks by the IRA and ETA ten years ago. We are in 1997. The order bears the stamp of his ambiguous ex-boss Bertram Tupra, who, through a deception, had already conditioned his previous life. The novel, beyond its plot, is a deep reflection on the limits of what can be done, on the mark that avoidance of the greater evil almost always brings and on the difficulty of determining what that evil is. Against the background of historical episodes of terrorism, Tomás Nevinson is also the story of what happens to someone who has already seen everything happen to him and to whom, apparently, nothing else could happen. But, while they do not finish, days continue to arrive... |
*Premio Nacional de Ensayo 2020*To be published in 34 languages and with more than 215,000 copies sold in Spanish, El infinito en un junco continues to captivate readers and publishers all over the world. Awarded with the Spanish Booksellers Prize 2020 and the Ojo Crítico Award 2019, Irene Vallejo also received the National Essay Prize 2020.
“Vallejo has wisely decided to free herself from the academic style and has instead chosen the voice of a storyteller, the story not understood as a list of works cited, but as a fable. And so for the common and avid reader, this charming essay is more moving and more immediate simply by being a homage to the book by a passionate reader.” Alberto Manguel, Babelia, El País |
*Rights sold in Spain & Latin America, US, UK, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Netherlands, Portugal, Hungary, Poland, Romania, and Turkey.
From the Spanish Civil War to the exile of a Republican family, from China’s Cultural Revolution to the Colombian guerrilla and its painful consequences, Volver la vista atrás is a novel about Sergio Cabrera's life. A life that is much more than a great adventure and a portrait of half a century of history that shook the whole world. This story of real facts becomes a social adventure that is at turns intimate and political, and other times private at the hands of a novelist like Juan Gabriel Vásquez. |
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