The Award Tally
FictionNonfiction

Wishlist

Saved in this browser only - it isn't synced to your other devices.

Back to the full ranking
The Infatuations cover

The Infatuations

Javier Marías with Margaret Jull Costa (trans.)

0

awards won

4

score

Every day, María Dolz stops for breakfast at the same café. And every day she enjoys watching a handsome couple who follow the same routine. Then one day they aren't there, and she feels obscurely bereft. It is only later, when she comes across a newspaper photograph of the man, lying stabbed in the street, his shirt half off, that she discovers who the couple are. Some time afterwards, when the woman returns to the café with her children, who are then collected by a different man, and Maria approaches her to offer her condolences, an entanglement begins which sheds new light on this apparently random, pointless death. With The Infatuations, Javier Marías brilliantly reimagines the murder novel as a metaphysical enquiry, addressing existential questions of life, death, love and morality. The Infatuations is an extraordinary, immersive book about the terrible force of events and their consequences.

Buy this book at AmazonAd
Publisher
Penguin UK
ISBN-13
9780241958506
Topics
Death and mortalityObsession and loveMorality and truth

Other awarded books from Javier Marías with Margaret Jull Costa (trans.)

Javier Marías with Margaret Jull Costa (trans.) has no other awarded or shortlisted books yet.

If you liked The Infatuations, you could also like these

Similar Topics