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A Heart So White is a breathtaking novel about family secrets, winner of the 1997 Dublin IMPAC Prize for the best novel published worldwide in English, and arguably Javier Marías's masterpiece. Javier Marías's A Heart So White chronicles with unnerving insistence the relentless power oContinue
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- English Books
- Paperback 280 Pages
- ISBN-10: 0811215059
- ISBN-13: 9780811215053
- Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
- Pub date: May 01, 2002
- Dimensions: 1290 mm x 903 mm x 129 mm Just how big is that?
- Also available as: Hardcover and Others
- In other languages: other languages
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| 9780811215053 | Paperback | $14.95 | $12.78 | bn.com |
| $14.95 | $11.61 | The Book Depository | ||
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This book starts with a suicide and gradually progresses towards explaining why it happened. The style is of long, rambling sentences and paragraphs but still quite readable. It is an interesting and cleverly constructed book, ruminating on love, memories, secrets and relationships, but in the end ... (continue)
This book starts with a suicide and gradually progresses towards explaining why it happened. The style is of long, rambling sentences and paragraphs but still quite readable. It is an interesting and cleverly constructed book, ruminating on love, memories, secrets and relationships, but in the end I found it to be somewhat hollow - Marias shows us a world of chance and transience, not meaning and transcendence.
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