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"Javier Marias's eighth novel...is a marvel to behold but a muddle to read. What's marvelous is its structure: Marias has written a kind of inverted mystery, exposing the 'crime' in the opening pages and then spending the rest of the novel obfuscating what really happened....The resulting construction, intricate and delicate, is occasionally breathtaking but more often overtaxed by Marias's penchant for allusive detail."Marías, Javier is the author of 'Tomorrow in the Battle Think on Me', published 2001 under ISBN 9780811214827 and ISBN 0811214826.
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