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WINNER OF THE IMPAC DUBLIN AWARD • Widely considered a masterpiece, a breathtaking novel about family secrets that chronicles the relentless power of the past—from the award-winning author of The Infatuations and "Spain's best writer" (Roberto Bolaño, national bestselling author of The Savage Detectives). 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: Marías elegantly sends shafts of inquisitory light into shadows and onto the costs of ambivalence.
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A Heart So White, Javier Marías
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- Released
- 2013
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- Title
- A Heart So White
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Javier Marías
- Publisher
- Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
- Released
- 2013
- Format
- Paperback
- Pages
- 278
- ISBN10
- 030795076X
- ISBN13
- 9780307950765
- Series
- Tags
- Fiction, Love, Family, Contemporary Fiction, Classics, Suspense, Death, Secrets, Literary Fiction, Marriage, Mysterious, Mysteries, New York, Spanish Literature, Spain, Psychological novels, Suicide, Cuba, Havana, Translators, Interpreters
- First published
- 1992
- Original title
- Corazón tan blanco
- Rating
- 3.9 out of 5
- Description
- WINNER OF THE IMPAC DUBLIN AWARD • Widely considered a masterpiece, a breathtaking novel about family secrets that chronicles the relentless power of the past—from the award-winning author of The Infatuations and "Spain's best writer" (Roberto Bolaño, national bestselling author of The Savage Detectives). 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: Marías elegantly sends shafts of inquisitory light into shadows and onto the costs of ambivalence.