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Tomás Nevinson (Paperback)
Javier MarÃas; Translated by Margaret Jull Costa; Afterword by Margaret Jull Costa
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THE GRIPPING FINAL NOVEL FROM THE GREATEST SPANISH WRITER OF HIS
GENERATION, JAVIER MARÃAS 'The most subtle and gifted writer in
contemporary Spanish literature' Boston Globe Spain in the 1990s is
beset by a simmering campaign of terror from Basque separatists
ETA, with periodic atrocities shattering an illusory calm. Against
this backdrop, retired British Secret Service member Tomás
Nevinson - now living a quiet life in his hometown Madrid - is
approached by his sinister former handler, Bertram Tupra, with an
offer to bring him back in from the cold, for one last assignment:
a favour for Tupra, for old times' sake, which is also a favour for
a powerful Spanish friend. His mission: to go back undercover, in a
small Spanish town, to find out which of three women who moved
there a decade ago is in fact an ETA terrorist, on loan from the
IRA, now on the run and living there incognito. Everything about
the assignment is shadowy - from who exactly Nevinson will be
working for to the question of what 'justice' he may need to mete
out if he is somehow able to unmask one of the three women. But,
still in his forties and lured by the appeal of once again being on
the inside, he accepts the job. As he gets closer to the three
women, his task becomes ever harder. How - or who - to choose
between these three? Intimately involved with each of them, as
lover, colleague or friend, he can find no firm clue to resolve the
question. But under increasing pressure from his paymasters, choose
- and act - he apparently must . . . Charting a world where right
and wrong, and good and evil, are irreparably blurred, Javier
MarÃas takes us on a journey of rare and unforgettable suspense in
this, the final novel written before his untimely passing IN 2022.
PRAISE FOR JAVIER MARÃAS: 'Unquestionably the most significant
Spanish writer of his generation' Observer '[MarÃas] uses language
like an anatomist uses a scalpel to lay bare the innermost secrets
of that strangest of species, the human being' W. G. Sebald 'One of
the greatest contemporary novelists' Le Monde 'A great writer'
Salman Rushdie
In these short, capricious and irreverent portraits of twenty-six
great writers, from Joyce to Nabokov, Sterne to Wilde, Javier
MarÃas, winner of the Dublin IMPAC prize and author of the
bestselling A Heart So White, throws unexpected, and very human,
light on authors too often enshrined in the halo of artistic
sainthood. Revealing that Conrad actually hated sailing and Emily
Brontë was so tough she was known as 'The Major', among many other
stories of eccentricity, drunkenness and even murder, this joyful
book uses unusual angles and peculiar details to illuminate
writers' lives in a new way. Javier MarÃas was born in Madrid in
1951. He has published ten novels, two collections of short stories
and several volumes of essays. His work has been translated into
thirty-two languages and won a dazzling array of international
literary awards, including the prestigious Dublin IMPAC award for A
Heart So White. He is also a highly practised translator into
Spanish of English authors, including Joseph Conrad, Robert Louis
Stevenson, Sir Thomas Browne and Laurence Sterne. He has held
academic posts in Spain, the United States and in Britain, as
Lecturer in Spanish Literature at Oxford University.
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