The Infatuations

by Javier Marías

Book Overview

INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER - NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE FINALIST - From the award-winning, internationally bestselling Spanish author of A Heart So White comes an immersive, provocative novel propelled by a seemingly random murder.

"Sometimes startling, sometimes hilarious, and always intelligent ... Mar as has] a penetrating empathy."--The New York Times Book Review

Each day before work Mar a Dolz stops at the same caf . There she finds herself drawn to a couple who is also there every morning. Observing their seemingly perfect life helps her escape the listlessness of her own. But when the man is brutally murdered and Mar a approaches the widow to offer her condolences, what began as mere observation turns into an increasingly complicated entanglement. Invited into the widow's home, she meets--and falls in love with--a man who sheds disturbing new light on the crime. As Mar a recounts this story, we are given a murder mystery brilliantly encased in a metaphysical enquiry, a novel that grapples with questions of love and death, chance and coincidence, and above all, with the slippery essence of the truth and how it is told.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0307950735
• ISBN13: 9780307950734
• Release Date: April 2014
• Publisher: Vintage
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.1" x 7.9"