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Your Face Tomorrow

✍ Scribed by Marías, Javier


Book ID
109155926
Publisher
New Directions
Year
2013
Tongue
en-US
Weight
1 MB
Series
Your Face Tomorrow 1
Category
Fiction
ISBN-13
9780811217279

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✦ Synopsis


A daring masterwork by Javier Marias: "Spain's most subtle and gifted writer." (The Boston Globe)Part spy novel, part romance, part Henry James, Your Face Tomorrow is a wholly remarkable display of the immense gifts of Javier Marias. With Fever and Spear , Volume One of his unfolding novel Your Face Tomorrow , he returns us to the rarified world of Oxford (the delightful setting of All Souls and Dark Back of Time), while introducing us to territory entirely new--espionage.

Our hero, Jaime Deza, separated from his wife in Madrid, is a bit adrift in London until his old friend Sir Peter Wheeler--retired Oxford don and semi-retired master spy--recruits him for a new career in British Intelligence. Deza possesses a rare gift for seeing behind the masks people wear. He is soon observing interviews conducted by Her Majesty's secret service: variously shady international businessmen one day, would-be coup leaders the...


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