I’ve been recommending Javier Marías to friends ever since I first discovered his work. But I’m still not quite sure how to describe his novels. There’s always some element of crime and mystery about them, but they are hardly conventional detective stories. I’m tempted to call them philosophical or psychological novels, but that hardly conveys the gritt…
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