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Tomás Nevinson by Javier Marías
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Tomás Nevinson

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Translator Margaret Jull Costa
Length 19 hours 47 minutes
Language English
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Summary

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AFTER THE ACCLAIMED BERTA ISLA COMES JAVIER MARÍAS' LONG-AWAITED NEW NOVEL

'The most subtle and gifted writer in contemporary Spanish literature' Boston Globe


Tomás Nevinson has left the secret service and returned to his old job working in the British Embassy in Madrid. Assumed dead by his wife Berta, Tomás attempts to resume his previous life and heal from his psychological wounds.

But when he is contacted by his old boss, Bertram Tupra, Nevinson reluctantly becomes involved in a plan to locate and eliminate a woman believed to have helped orchestrate the 1987 Hipercor bombing. Detonated by the ETA, a Basque separatist group, the bomb killed 21 people and injured 45.

Full of mesmerising intrigue, Tomás Nevinson offers a deep reflection into the moral dilemma of whether the killing of a presumed criminal can be justified. Marías' meticulous insight and dazzling intellectual vigour show why he is so often said to be Spain's greatest living writer.

PRAISE FOR BERTA ISLA:

'A twisty, thought-provoking tale that puts notions of truth and morality under pitiless scrutiny' The Guardian


'Elegant, discursive, persuasively vivid novel . . . powerful and indelible' The National


'Marías weaves a thrilling and desolate meditation on the psychic costs of the deep state's dark arts' 1843 Magazine


'Magical
. . . [Marías's] finest novel to date' Alex Clark

'Compelling' Tatler


©2023 Javier Marías (P)2023 Penguin Audio

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Reviews

How we will miss the late Javier Marías and his unique genre of slow-motion page-turners, blending thrillery plots with long, equivocating sentences . . . [Tomás Nevinson] is full of the complexities, comedy and most of all contradictions that define his work A Spanish literary great . . . His writing is fine and subtle Javier Marías's writing doesn't resemble anyone else's. It's easy to parody, but impossible to imitate . . . Javier Marias was the best writer in Spain A meditation on thought and consciousness, identity and disguise, the gloriously rolling sentences offer the deep pleasures of a brilliant mind apprehending the world in real time The last word from a master . . . His writing is often thrilling in a way that's distinct from any other author I know . . . once you've been inside Marías' world, to spend too long outside is unbearable The most subtle and gifted writer in contemporary Spanish literature A Marías sentence is a place of infinite richness and surprises Javier Marias’s farewell novel sees the late Spanish spellbinder leave us in a droll, delicious, thrillerish labyrinth Marías occupied a reputational perch in Spanish culture that would be almost inconceivable for an American author . . . Most considered him the greatest living Spanish writer A writer who loves the propulsiveness of the thriller, the page-turning compulsion that drives a reader through Eric Ambler or John le Carré Mariás demonstrates why so many of his peers believe him to be among the greatest of contemporary novelists This is a spy thriller, but it reads like one transposed into music . . . Marías mesmerises us again and we are swept on by the long, powerful swells of his prose Expand reviews
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