{"product_id":"a-heart-so-white-javier-marias-paperback","title":"A Heart So White -- Javier Marías, Paperback","description":"Winner of the IMPAC Dublin Award, and widely considered Javier Mar as's masterpiece, \u003ci\u003eA Heart So White \u003c\/i\u003eis a breathtaking novel about family secrets that chronicles the relentless power of the past. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eJuan 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Javier Marías\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Vintage\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/26\/2013\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 304\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.50lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.97h x 5.15w x 0.71d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780307950765\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJavier Marías was born in Madrid in 1951. He has published ten novels, two collections of short stories and several volumes of essays. His work has been translated into thirty-two languages and won a dazzling array of interna­tional literary awards, including the prestigious Dublin IMPAC award for \u003ci\u003eA Heart So White\u003c\/i\u003e. He is also a highly practiced translator into Spanish of English authors, including Joseph Conrad, Robert Louis Stevenson, Sir Thomas Browne and Laurence Sterne. He has held academic posts in Spain, the United States and in Britain, as Lecturer in Spanish Literature at Oxford University.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Javier Marías","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67733794357476,"sku":"9780307950765","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0611\/9587\/8628\/files\/9780307950765.jpg?v=1792656579","url":"https:\/\/bookandmortar.com\/products\/a-heart-so-white-javier-marias-paperback","provider":"BookandMortar","version":"1.0","type":"link"}