MarÃas, Javier
As comienza esta novela magistral de Javier Mar as. Pero eso fue hace mucho tiempo , seg n a ade el narrador: ahora es l quien est reci n casado, con Luisa, y en su propio viaje de novios, estando en La Habana, ve desde el balc n de su hotel a una mujer desconocida que espera en la calle y que durante unos segundos lo confundir con la persona con quien se ha citado. A partir de entonces el narrador sentir un creciente e inexplicable malestar ( presentimientos de desastre ) ante su reci n inauguradomatrimonio, e intuir que la explicaci n tal vez est en el pasado y por tanto en su propio origen, yaque su padre, Ranz, hubo de casarse tres veces para que l pudiera nacer. Lejos del investigador, el narrador de esta novela es, por el contrario, un hombre que prefiere no saber, consciente de lo peligroso que resulta escuchar y de que, una vez o das las cosas, ya no pueden olvidarse.
La vigorosa e hipn tica prosa de Javier Mar as configura en espiral esta extraordinaria novela en la que est n presentes los grandes temas de su narrativa: el secreto y su posible conveniencia, el matrimonio, el asesinato, la instigaci n, la sospecha, el hablar y el callar, y los corazones que poco a poco se van ti endo y acaban sabiendo lo que nunca quisieron saber.
La presente edici n conmemorativa cuenta con un pr logo escrito por el autor para la ocasi n, un testimonio personal sobre los veinticinco a os de Coraz n tan blanco.
inner of the IMPAC Dublin Award, and widely considered Javier Mar as's masterpiece, A Heart So White is a breathtaking novel about family secrets that chronicles 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: Mar as elegantly sends shafts of inquisitory light into shadows and onto the costs of ambivalence.
JAVIER MAR AS is the author of sixteen works in Spanish, which have been translated into forty-two languages including English. His translated English works are All Souls, A Heart So White, Tomorrow in the Battle Think on Me, When I Was Mortal, Dark Back of Time, The Man of Feeling, Voyage Along the Horizon, Written Lives, the Your Face Tomorrow trilogy (Fever and Spear, Dance and Dream and Poison, Shadow and Farewell), Bad Nature, While the Women Are Sleeping, The Infatuations, Thus Bad Begins and, Venice, An Interior. Javier Mar as has received numerous literary prizes including the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award and the Prix Formentor. He lives and works as a translator and columnist in Madrid.
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