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Your Face Tomorrow, Volume 3

Poison, Shadow and Farewell

Javier Marías author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Penguin Books Ltd

Published:1st Mar '18

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Your Face Tomorrow, Volume 3 cover

Volume three, the concluding part of Javier Marias's acclaimed and evocative 'novel in parts'.

'Your Face Tomorrow is already being compared with Proust and rightly so' Observer

'One of contemporary literature's major works ... you have to open this book' Ali Smith

The concluding part in Javier Marías' spy trilogy masterwork

Jacques Deza is back in London and once again working for the secret intelligence agency run by Bertram Tupra. Deza finds himself forced to watch Tupra's collection of incriminating videotapes of important public figures. The recordings document unconventional private lives - and horrific acts. The scenes enter him like a poison, contaminating everything good, yet he is powerless to counteract them. Set against a background of brutality, Poison, Shadow and Farewell asks whether violence can ever be justified and completes the extraordinary journey that has led us on a descent into hell and a re-emergence, not entirely unscathed, into life.

Your Face Tomorrow is already being compared with Proust and rightly so. It is a novel of extraordinary subtlety and pathos. The next thing Marias deserves is the Nobel Prize * Observer *

ISBN: 9780241338063

Dimensions: 198mm x 129mm x 24mm

Weight: 383g

560 pages