While the Women Are Sleeping
Fictionby Javier Marías
Translated from Spanish by Margaret Jull Costa
Slippery figures in anomalous situations – ghosts, spies, bodyguards, criminals – haunt these stories by Javier Marías: the characters come bearing their strange and special secrets, and never leave our minds. In one story, a man obsessed with his much younger lover endlessly videotapes her every move, and then confides his surprising plans for her; in another a ghost can’t stop resigning from his job. Masterfully, Marías manages in a small space to perplex and delight. “The short story fits Marías like a glove,” as Le Point noted. His stories have been hailed as “formidably intelligent” (The London Review of Books), “a bracing tonic” (The Chicago Tribune), and “startling” (The New York Times Book Review).
Paperback(published November 29, 2012)
- ISBN
- 9780811219143
- Price US
- 14.95
- Price CN
- 16
- Trim Size
- 5x8
- Page Count
- 138
Clothbound(published November 29, 2012)
- ISBN
- 9780811216630
- Price US
- 21.95
- Trim Size
- 5x8
- Page Count
- 176
Ebook(published November 29, 2012)
- ISBN
- 9780811219358
- Price US
- 14.95
- Page Count
- 176