A Heart so White

Javier Marias

A Heart so White
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Country
United Kingdom
Published
24 October 2012
Pages
304
ISBN
9780141199955

A Heart so White

Javier Marias

Javier Marias’s A Heart So White chronicles with unnerving insistence 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: Marias elegantly sends shafts of inquisitory light into shadows and on to the costs of ambivalence.

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