Winner of the IMPAC Dublin Award, and widely considered Javier Mar as's masterpiece, A Heart So White is a breathtaking novel about family secrets that chronicles the relentless power of the past. 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.
A Heart So White (Vintage International)
Javier Marías
$18.00
- SKU:
- 9780307950765
- UPC:
- 9780307950765
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- Published by:
- Vintage
- Pub date:
- 03/26/2013
- Binding type:
- Paperback
- Pages:
- 278
- ISBN:
- 9780307950765