Your Face Tomorrow: Poison, Shadow, and Farewell - Softcover

Javier Marķas

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0811219240 ISBN 13: 9780811219242

Publisher: New Directions, 2011

Synopsis

Your Face Tomorrow, Javier Marķas’s daring novel in three parts culminates triumphantly in this much-anticipated final volume.

Poison, Shadow, and Farewell, with its heightened tensions between meditations and noir narrative, with its wit and and ever deeper forays into the mysteries of consciousness, brings to a stunning finale Marķas’s three-part Your Face Tomorrow. Already this novel has been acclaimed “exquisite“ (Publishers Weekly), “gorgeous” (Kirkus), and “outstanding: another work of urgent originality” (London Independent). Poison, Shadow, and Farewell takes our hero Jaime Deza―hired by MI6 as a person of extraordinarily sophisticated powers of perception―back to Madrid to both spy on and try to protect his own family, and into new depths of love and loss, with a fluency on the subject of death that could make a stone weep.

About this title

About the Author:

Javier Marķas is an award-winning Spanish novelist. He is also a translator and columnist, as well as the current king of Redonda. He was born in Madrid in 1951 and published his first novel at the age of nineteen. He has held academic posts in Spain, the US (he was a visiting professor at Wellesley College) and Britain, as a lecturer in Spanish Literature at Oxford University. He has been translated into 34 languages, and more than six million copies of his books have been sold worldwide. In 1997 he won the Nelly Sachs Award; the Comunidad de Madrid award in 1998; in 2000 the Grinzane Cavour Award, the Alberto Moravia Prize, and the Dublin IMPAC Award. He also won the Spanish National Translation Award in 1979 for his translation of Tristram Shandy in 1979. He was a professor at Oxford University and the Complutense of Madrid. He currently lives in Madrid.

Award-winning translator Margaret Jull Costa lives in England. 

Review:

“Poison, Shadow and Farewell delivers a payoff at the end, but the real challenge, and pleasure, is in getting there.”
- Larry Rohter, The New York Times

“This brilliant trilogy must be one of the greatest novels of our age.”
- Antony Beevor, Sunday Telegraph [London]

“Like so much of Marķas's extraordinary writing, it is unforgettable.”
- Margaret Drabble, Times Literary Supplement

“The strange mixture of high cultural references and Jaques' essentially thriller-like story line, make for a reading experience like no other.”
- Washington Examiner

“This novel...crowns Marķas's trilogy and his translator's lively English rendering of it with narrative honor.”
- John Spurling, Times Onlne [UK]

“Like the other volumes in the sequence, Poison, Shadow and Farewell is as stealthy as any spy.”
- Louise Welsh, Financial Times

“This deeply strange creation...may very well be the first authentic literary masterpiece of the 21st century.”
- James Lasdun, The Guardian [UK]

“Quite unlike anything else today.... One of the finest novels of modern times.”
- Tim Martin, The Telegraph [UK]

“A literary tour de force ... as much about the past from which we are made as the present we have become.”
- The Economist

“The conclusion...is to be reminded of the intricacy with which he has fitted his pieces into the larger part.”
- Colin Torre, Kansas City Free Press

About this edition

• Publisher: New Directions
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 0811219240
• ISBN 13: 9780811219242
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 554