Research Catalog

Title

Tomorrow in the battle think on me / Javier Marías ; translated from the Spanish by Margaret Jull Costa.

Author

Marías, Javier.

Publication

London : Harvill Press, 1996.

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Details

Additional Authors

Costa, Margaret Jull.

Description

311 pages; 23 cm

Summary

""It's tiring having always to move in the shadows, having to watch without being seen, doing one's best not to be discovered, just as it's tiring to having to keep to oneself a secret or a mystery ..." So thinks Victor, who has left his new mistress, Marta, dead on her bed, as he lets himself out of her Madrid flat, while her husband is away on business in London. Victor had put some food out for Marta's little boy, who had taken so long getting to sleep, and had slipped the tape with its compromising messages from her answering machine into his pocket before creeping off. An unexpected end to what was supposed to be an evening of passion - but the girl had suddenly taken ill and died in his arms." "While Marta's elderly father is afflicted that his daughter died alone, the rest of the family are all too aware that she was not alone when she died, and Dean, the widowed husband, is determined to find out who was sharing her bed that night. All might have remained undiscovered, but Victor cannot endure living with shadows and, as it turns out, there is another who must also bring secrets into the open." "Javier Marias focuses an unforgiving spotlight on the secrets that both bind and sunder couples, the admissions that conceal, the lies that betray the truth - and the infinite capacity for self-deception that accompanies every gift of the heart."--Jacket

Uniform Title

Mañana en la batalla piensa en mí. English

Alternative Title

Mañana en la batalla piensa en mí.

Genre/Form

• Fiction
• Fiction.
• Romans.

ISBN

• 1860461999
• 9781860461996
• 1860462006
• 9781860462009

OCLC

• ocm36145559
• 36145559
• SCSB-2100376

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library