- New eBook additions
- Available now
- Most popular
- Armchair Exploration
- Award Worthy Reads
- The Case of the Checked Out Mystery
- Lady Whistledown Recommends
- Out Of This World
- Reading is Timeless: Historical Fiction
- Retro Reads: Books from before the 21st century
- Swoon Worthy Rom Coms
- We are Everyday Miracles (Memoirs)
- See all
-
Description
-
Creators
-
Details
-
Reviews
"Sometimes startling, sometimes hilarious, and always intelligent ... Marías [has] a penetrating empathy."—The New York Times Book Review
Each day before work María Dolz stops at the same café. There she finds herself drawn to a couple who is also there every morning. Observing their seemingly perfect life helps her escape the listlessness of her own. But when the man is brutally murdered and María approaches the widow to offer her condolences, what began as mere observation turns into an increasingly complicated entanglement. Invited into the widow's home, she meets—and falls in love with—a man who sheds disturbing new light on the crime. As María recounts this story, we are given a murder mystery brilliantly encased in a metaphysical enquiry, a novel that grapples with questions of love and death, chance and coincidence, and above all, with the slippery essence of the truth and how it is told.
- Javier Marías - Author
- Margaret Jull Costa - Translator
Awards:
Kindle Book
- Release date: August 13, 2013
OverDrive Read
- ISBN: 9780307960733
- Release date: August 13, 2013
EPUB ebook
- ISBN: 9780307960733
- File size: 2422 KB
- Release date: August 13, 2013
Loading
Formats
Kindle Book
OverDrive Read
EPUB ebook
subjects
Languages
English