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A Heart So White (Paperback)
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Short Description for A Heart So WhiteA breathtaking novel about family secrets, winner of the 1997 Dublin IMPAC Prize for the best novel published worldwide in English, and arguably Javier Marias's masterpiece.
Full description- Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
- Published: 17 May 2002
- Format: Paperback 280 pages
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- Categories: Contemporary Fiction | Fiction In Translation
- ISBN 13: 9780811215053 ISBN 10: 0811215059
- Sales rank: 192,973
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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.)
