A Heart So White
of Javier MarĂas, Margaret Jull Costa (Translator)
Description
Javier MarĂas'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. Secrecyâits possible convenience, its price, and even its civilityâhovers 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: MarĂas elegantly sends shafts of inquisitory light into the shadows and on to the costs of ambivalence. ("My hands are of your colour; but I shame/To wear a heart so white"âShakespeare's Macbeth.)
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Book Details
- Format Paperback
- Pages 280 pages
- Publisher New Directions
- Publication Date May 17th 2002
- First Publication 02/13/92
- Language English
- ISBN 9780811215053
- Edition Not informed
- Category Fiction
- Scenario ['Madrid (Spain)', 'Havana (Cuba)', 'New York City, New York (United States)']
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