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While the Women Are Sleeping

by Javier Marías
Margaret Jull Costa
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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).
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Publisher: New Directions

Kindle Book

  • ISBN: 9780811219358
  • Release date: July 30, 2015

OverDrive Read

  • ISBN: 9780811219358
  • File size: 488 KB
  • Release date: July 30, 2015

EPUB ebook

  • ISBN: 9780811219358
  • File size: 488 KB
  • Release date: July 30, 2015
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Fiction Short Stories

Languages

English

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).
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Fiction Short Stories