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Your Face Tomorrow, Volume 1
  • Published: 15 March 2018
  • ISBN: 9780241288894
  • Imprint: Penguin Classics
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 384
  • RRP: $26.99

Your Face Tomorrow, Volume 1

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15 Mar 2018
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2 Nov 2017
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Volume one of Javier Marias's acclaimed and evocative 'novel in parts'

Recently divorced, Jacques Deza moves from Madrid to London to start anew. At a party held by retired don, semi-retired spy and old friend Sir Peter Wheeler, he meets the inscrutable Bertram Tupra. Tupra is impressed by Deza's talent for seeing through people and enlists him in a mysterious group. His mission is to observe an assortment of people including politicians, celebrities and seemingly ordinary citizens with the aim of predicting their next move. Through Deza's descent into the dark world of observation, Marias sculpts a profound meditation on the foundations of human relationships and questions our ability to truly know and understand those around us.
  • Published: 15 March 2018
  • ISBN: 9780241288894
  • Imprint: Penguin Classics
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 384
  • RRP: $26.99
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About the author

Javier Marías

Javier Marías was born in Madrid in 1951 and died in 2022. He published fifteen novels, three collections of short stories and several volumes of essays. His work has been translated into forty-three languages and has won a dazzling array of international literary awards, including the prestigious Dublin IMPAC award for A Heart So White. He held academic posts in Spain, the United States and in Britain, as Lecturer in Spanish Literature at Oxford University.
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Also by Javier Marías

Tomás Nevinson
Berta Isla
Madame du Deffand and the Idiots
Your Face Tomorrow, Volume 3
Between Eternities
Your Face Tomorrow, Volume 2
Venice, An Interior
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Praise for Your Face Tomorrow, Volume 1

You are dazzled by the author's intelligence and understanding of human nature

Scotsman

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

He has as gift for the wickedly comic set piece...He seems incapable of writing a thoughtless or throwaway sentence.We need more novelists like Marias

Independent on Sunday

An intriguing and audacious experiment

Sunday Times