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While the Women Are Sleeping

Books | Fiction / Short Stories (single author)

Javier Marías
A dozen unforgettable stories by “one of the most original writers at work today” (Wyatt Mason, The New York Times Book Review).Slippery figures in anomalous situations — ghosts, spies, bodyguards, criminals — haunt these stories by Javier Marías: the characters come bearing their strange and special secrets, and never leave our minds. In one story, a man obsessed with his much younger lover endlessly videotapes her every move, and then confides his surprising plans for her; in another a ghost can’t stop resigning from his job. Masterfully, Marías manages in a small space to perplex and delight. “The short story fits Marías like a glove,” as Le Point noted. His stories have been hailed as “formidably intelligent” (The London Review of Books), “a bracing tonic” (Chicago Tribune), and “startling” (The New York Times Book Review).
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Author
Javier Marías
Pages
128
Publisher
New Directions Publishing
Published Date
2010-11-29
ISBN
0811216632 9780811216630

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