While the Women Are Sleeping

Fiction & Literature, Short Stories
Cover of the book While the Women Are Sleeping by Javier Marías, New Directions
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Author: Javier Marías ISBN: 9780811219358
Publisher: New Directions Publication: November 29, 2010
Imprint: New Directions Language: English
Author: Javier Marías
ISBN: 9780811219358
Publisher: New Directions
Publication: November 29, 2010
Imprint: New Directions
Language: English

A dozen unforgettable stories by “one of the most original writers at work today” (Wyatt Mason, The New York Times Book Review).

Slippery figures in anomalous situations — ghosts, spies, bodyguards, criminals — haunt these stories by Javier Marías: the characters come bearing their strange and special secrets, and never leave our minds. In one story, a man obsessed with his much younger lover endlessly videotapes her every move, and then confides his surprising plans for her; in another a ghost can’t stop resigning from his job. Masterfully, Marías manages in a small space to perplex and delight. “The short story fits Marías like a glove,” as Le Point noted. His stories have been hailed as “formidably intelligent” (The London Review of Books), “a bracing tonic” (Chicago Tribune), and “startling” (The New York Times Book Review).

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A dozen unforgettable stories by “one of the most original writers at work today” (Wyatt Mason, The New York Times Book Review).

Slippery figures in anomalous situations — ghosts, spies, bodyguards, criminals — haunt these stories by Javier Marías: the characters come bearing their strange and special secrets, and never leave our minds. In one story, a man obsessed with his much younger lover endlessly videotapes her every move, and then confides his surprising plans for her; in another a ghost can’t stop resigning from his job. Masterfully, Marías manages in a small space to perplex and delight. “The short story fits Marías like a glove,” as Le Point noted. His stories have been hailed as “formidably intelligent” (The London Review of Books), “a bracing tonic” (Chicago Tribune), and “startling” (The New York Times Book Review).

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