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Schedule for "Your Face Tomorrow"

Again with me and the last minute postings, but if you’re planning on participating in Conversational Reading’s YFT Reading Group, here’s the official schedule: VOLUME 1 –1: Fever– Week 1, March 21-27: pp. 3 – 95 (Section ends at: “But before getting back to the Tupras . . .”) Week 2, ...

"Your Face Tomorrow" Reading Group

After reading a bunch of glowing reviews for the third volume of Javier Marias’s Your Face Tomorrow trilogy (including this one from the Independent in which the trilogy is referred to as “one of the most thoughtful and inspiring fictional works of the last decade”) I tentatively decided that I would spend ...

Independent Foreign Fiction Prize Longlist

So, even though we’re in danger right now of becoming a blog that only writes about book prizes (or maybe I’m only feeling that way because the Best Translated Book Award has been on my mind for so long), we would be remiss if we didn’t make mention of the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize ...

TLS Best Books of the Year

Always a big fan of TLS‘s best books of the year feature in which they ask authors to talk about the best books they read over the past year. Even cooler when an Open Letter title is included . . . (And we’re 2 for 2! Last year, The Pets by Bragi Olafsson was selected.) Ali Smith The final parts of two ...

Javier Marias's Publishing Venture

Literary Saloon pointed us to this El Pais article entitled “Esta absurda aventura” (This Absurd Adventure) about Javier Marias’s Reino de Redonda publishing house. (For non-Marias fans, here’s a short history of the Kingdom of Redonda and Marias’s ties to it. It really is a fun story and cool ...

Javier Marias in the NYRB

Scott points out an 8-book overview-review of Javier Marias’s novels in the NYRB. Above all Marìas’s novels are concerned with the processes of telling, with what it means to tell and not to tell, with the bonds we establish or dissolve by telling, with the ways telling may either release us from the past or ...

Javier Marias in the Financial Times

I’m a big Marias fan, and can’t wait for the third volume of Your Face Tomorrow to be translated into English. In the meantime, the Financial Times* has an interesting article on Marias, aka King Xavier I of Redonda: Earlier this month Poison, Shadow and Farewell, a final, third volume of Your Face Tomorrow ...