Between Eternities: and Other Writings

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An exhilarating, far-ranging collection of non-fiction writing from the internationally acclaimed author of A Heart So White and The Infatuations Internationally renowned writer Javier Marias is a tireless examiner of the world around us, an enthusiastic debunker of pretensions of every kind, a polymath and a rogue. This selection of his inimitable non-fiction pieces are published together in English for the first time. Following in the essayistic tradition of Montaigne, Between Eternities ranges widely from the literary to the philosophical to the autobiographical, from football to cinema, comic books to mortality to 'Why Almost No One Can Be Trusted'. Trenchant and wry, subversive and penetrating, Marias demonstrates a dazzling intellectual vigour, showing with exhilarating verve why he is so often said to be Spain's greatest living writer.

Javier Marias is the author of sixteen works in Spanish, translated into forty-two languages. His translated English works include All Souls, A Heart So White, Tomorrow in the Battle Think on Me, the Your Face Tomorrow trilogy, The Infatuations and Thus Bad Begins. Javier Marias 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. His new novel, Berta Isla, will be published by Hamish Hamilton in October 2018.

Stylish, and spooky, essays on films, books, places and people by a world-class novelist * The Art Desk *