Heart So White

Name: Heart So White
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ISBN: 9780307950765

ISBN-10: 030795076X

ISBN-13: 9780307950765

Edition: N/A

Authors: Javier Marï¿½as, Jonathan Coe

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Winner of the IMPAC Dublin Award, and widely considered Javier Marías's masterpiece,A Heart So Whiteis a breathtaking novel about family secrets that chronicles the relentless power of the past.Juan 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: Marías elegantly sends shafts of inquisitory…

Book details

List price: $24.95
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date: 3/26/2013
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 304
Size: 5.20" wide x 7.98" long x 0.65" tall
Weight: 0.484