| Title | : | While the Women Are Sleeping |
|---|---|---|
| Author | : | Javier Marías & Margaret Jull Costa |
| Release | : | 2010-11-29 |
| Kind | : | ebook |
| Genre | : | Short Stories, Books, Fiction & Literature |
| Size | : | 663785 |
| A dozen unforgettable stories by “one of the most original writers at work today” (Wyatt Mason, The New York Times Book Review). Slippery figures in anomalous situations — ghosts, spies, bodyguards, criminals — haunt these stories by Javier Marías: the characters come bearing their strange and special secrets, and never leave our minds. In one story, a man obsessed with his much younger lover endlessly videotapes her every move, and then confides his surprising plans for her; in another a ghost can’t stop resigning from his job. Masterfully, Marías manages in a small space to perplex and delight. “The short story fits Marías like a glove,” as Le Point noted. His stories have been hailed as “formidably intelligent” (The London Review of Books), “a bracing tonic” (Chicago Tribune), and “startling” (The New York Times Book Review). |
