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A Heart So White

Margaret Jull Costa

4.1/5 ( ratings)

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Javier Marías'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: Marías elegantly sends shafts of inquisitory light into the shadows and on to the costs of ambivalence.

Language: English

Pages: 280

Format: Paperback

Publisher: New Directions

Release: May 17, 2002

ISBN: 0811215059

ISBN 13: 9780811215053

A Heart So White

Margaret Jull Costa

4.1/5 ( ratings)

An alternate cover of this ISBN can be found here.

Javier Marías'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: Marías elegantly sends shafts of inquisitory light into the shadows and on to the costs of ambivalence.

Language: English

Pages: 280

Format: Paperback

Publisher: New Directions

Release: May 17, 2002

ISBN: 0811215059

ISBN 13: 9780811215053

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