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When I Was Mortal (Paperback)
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Short Description for When I Was MortalA dozen stories by Javier Marias "the most subtle and gifted writer in contemporary Spanish literature" (Boston Sunday Globe) commissioned from numerous literary publications around the world.
Full description- Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
- Published: 14 April 2009
- Format: Paperback 176 pages
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- Categories: Contemporary Fiction | Short Stories | Fiction In Translation
- ISBN 13: 9780811215169 ISBN 10: 0811215164
- Sales rank: 614,820
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Full description for When I Was Mortal
Victims of mistaken identity, sponging relatives, amateur sleuths, eavesdroppers, professional liars, assassins, and failed bodyguards populate the short stories in When I Was Mortal. Plots turn on curious exigencies a woman about to star in her first porn film; a night doctor who adds new meaning to "specialist"; a ghost whose neglect is greatly resented. "In the space of ten or twenty pages," as the Nouvel Observateur remarked, "Marias contrives to write a novel." "The short story fits Marias like a glove," as Le Point noted, and these stories have been acclaimed as "dazzling" (The London Times Literary Supplement); "formidably intelligent" (The London Review of Books); and "startling" (The New York Times Book Review).
