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  A Heart So White (Hardback) By (author) Javier Marias, Translated by Margaret Jull Costa

  

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  Short Description for A Heart So WhiteIn a novel that chronicles family secrets, Juan knows little about his father Ranz, but each seems to have always been comfortable with their friendly but distant orbit. When Juan marries, his new wife bonds with Ranz, and Juan considers the past anew, yet he really doesn't want to know about it.
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  • Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
  • Published: 25 April 2001
  • Format: Hardback 288 pages
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  • Categories: Contemporary Fiction | Fiction In Translation
  • ISBN 13: 9780811214520 ISBN 10: 0811214524
  • Sales rank: 756,555

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Full description for A Heart So White

• Javier Marias's A Heart So White chronicles with unnerving insistence 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: Marias elegantly sends shafts of inquisitory light into shadows and on to the costs of ambivalence. ("My hands are of your colour; but I shame/To wear a heart so white" Shakespeare's Macbeth.)