When I Was Mortal

Informationen zum Autor Javier Marías was born in Madrid in 1951 and died in 2022. He published fifteen novels, three collections of short stories and several volumes of essays. His work has been translated into forty-three languages and has won a dazzling array of international literary awards, including the prestigious Dublin IMPAC award for A Heart So White . He held academic posts in Spain, the United States and in Britain, as Lecturer in Spanish Literature at Oxford University. Klappentext Javier Mar¿ is the author of sixteen works in Spanish, which have been translated into forty-five languages including English. His translated English works are All Souls, A Heart So White, Tomorrow in the Battle Think on Me, When I Was Mortal, Dark Back of Time, The Man of Feeling, Voyage Along the Horizon, Written Lives, the Your Face Tomorrow trilogy (Fever and Spear, Dance and Dream and Poison, Shadow and Farewell), Bad Nature, While the Women Are Sleeping, The Infatuations, Thus Bad Begins and, Venice, An Interior. Javier Mar¿ has received numerous literary prizes including the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award and the Prix Formentor. He lives and works as a translator and columnist in Madrid. Zusammenfassung A dapper Paris doctor dispenses a treatment for dissatisfied wives. A mother auditions for her first porn movie. A writer working on a study of pain makes himself the subject of his experiments. A voyeur mistakes a murderer for a fellow peeping tom... these are some of the characters observed by the narrator of these chilling stories.

Product details

• Authors: Javier Marias, Javier Marías, MARIAS JAVIER
• Publisher: Penguin Books Uk
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 31.01.2013
• EAN: 9780141389264
• ISBN: 978-0-14-138926-4
• No. of pages: 176
• Dimensions: 130 mm x 199 mm x 10 mm
• Series: Penguin Classics; Penguin Modern Classics; Penguin Modern Classics; Penguin Classics
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Spanische SchriftstellerInnen; Werke (div.), FICTION / Short Stories (single author), FICTION / Literary, Short Stories, Fiction in translation, Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary