A heart so white [electronic resource] / Javier Marı́as ; translated by Margaret Jull Costa.
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: Marias elegantly sends shafts of inquisitory light into shadows and onto the costs of ambivalence.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780307951076 (electronic bk.)
- ISBN: 0307951073 (electronic bk.)
- Physical Description: 1 online resource.
- Edition: Vintage International ed.
- Publisher: New York : Vintage International, 2013.
Content descriptions
Language Note: | Translated from the Spanish. |
Source of Description Note: | Description based on online resource; title from EPUB title page (OverDrive, viewed Apr. 3, 2013). |
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