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Berta Isla (Paperback)
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Berta Isla (Paperback)
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List price R345
Loot Price R284
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You Save R61 (18%)
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'The most subtle and gifted writer in contemporary Spanish
literature' Boston Globe 'No one else, anywhere, is writing quite
like this' Daily Telegraph A thrilling new literary offering from
the acclaimed author of The Infatuations and A Heart So White 'For
a while, she wasn't sure that her husband was her husband.
Sometimes she thought he was, and sometimes not...' Berta Isla and
Tomas Nevinson meet in Madrid. Young and in love, they quickly
decide to spend their lives together - never suspecting that they
will grow to be total strangers, both living under the shadow of
disappearances. Tomas, half-Spanish and half-English, has an
extraordinary gift for languages and accents. Leaving Berta to
study at Oxford, he catches the interest of a certain government
agency, and its mysterious agent, Bertram Tupra. Tomas is
determined to evade the agent's attentions but his fate is sealed
by an escalating series of events that will affect the rest of his
life - and that of his beloved Berta. Finishing his time at Oxford,
he returns to Madrid to marry her, already knowing that the life
they planned has been lost forever. Darkly gripping, Berta Isla
examines a relationship condemned to secrecy and concealment, to
pretence and conjecture, to resentment mingled with loyalty. With
meticulous insight and understanding of the human soul, Marias
examines the urge to change our destiny, and the hopeless exile we
bring upon ourselves.
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