Title : Like Loves - Javier Marías - book
Summary :
Every morning, in the café where she has breakfast, Madrid-based editor María Dolz observes a couple who, through their complicity and cheerfulness, radiate such happiness that she eagerly awaits, day after day, the moment she can secretly witness this rare and comforting spectacle. But the summer passes, and by the start of the next school year, the couple is no longer there. María then learns that a tragedy has occurred. The husband, Miguel Desvern, the wealthy heir to a film production company, has been brutally murdered in the street by a deranged man. Deeply moved, she decides to emerge from her anonymity and make contact with his wife, Luisa, who has become a fragile being, as if anesthetized by the tragedy. In Luisa's entourage, María meets Javier Díaz-Varela, Miguel's best friend, and she quickly understands that the bonds this man is forging with the young widow are not without ambiguity. Quite the contrary: this relationship casts a disturbing shadow over the couple's past, over Miguel's disappearance, over Luisa's future, and even over María's. Served by masterful prose, adept at plumbing the depths of the human soul but also at holding its reader in suspense, this moral fable about love and death can only remind us, by its intensity, of the best pages of A Heart So White or Tomorrow in the Battle Think of Me. As in the past, Javier Marías dialogues with Shakespeare's tragedies but also with Balzac's Colonel Chabert, of which he offers us here a brilliant, completely unexpected, and strictly contemporary reading.
- EAN: 9782070138739
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