Coleccion Particular: Corazon Tan Blanco (Paperback)

from Isgodchekhov

Macbeth murders sleep... says the narrator at one point in the much hailed Spanish novelist Javier Marias' highest profile work to date; his 1992 novel Heart So White. I read Macbeth (unbelievably) for the first time last spring and had highlighted: "My hands are of your color, but I shame to wea...

from KrisR

There are so many layers to this book. You have to be willing to give it time, especially in the first third or so, when Marías writes long, intricate, sentences that fold back on themselves, with parentheses within parentheses. Through this style, Marías presents the thoughts and interpretations...

from deebee1

Even among a good number of excellent reads this year, this novel stands out as my most exciting discovery. It begins with a young woman who has just returned from her honeymoon and kills herself. Sounds like ur typical mystery paperback? Not at all. Fast forward to a hotel room somewhere in Cuba...

from bodachliath

I enjoyed this a lot, but it is not an easy book to summarise. Loosely it is a book about family secrets, communication and relationships, with a long-hidden tragedy at its core, and focuses on a son's attempts to understand his father's past and come to terms with the psychological effects of hi...

from deebee1

Even among a good number of excellent reads this year, this novel stands out as my most exciting discovery. It begins with a young woman who has just returned from her honeymoon and kills herself. Sounds like ur typical mystery paperback? Not at all. Fast forward to a hotel room somewhere in Cuba...