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Berta Isla
language: english
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PENGUIN BOOKS LTD, October of 2019 ‧
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SYNOPSIS
"For a while, she wasn't sure that her husband was her husband. Sometimes she thought he was, and sometimes not..."
Berta Isla and Tomas Nevinson meet in Madrid. Young and in love, they quickly decide to spend their lives together - never suspecting that they will grow to be total strangers, both living under the shadow of disappearances.
Tomas, half-Spanish and half-English, has an extraordinary gift for languages and accents. Leaving Berta to study at Oxford, he catches the interest of a certain government agency, and its mysterious agent, Bertram Tupra.
Tomas is determined to evade the agent's attentions but his fate is sealed by an escalating series of events that will affect the rest of his life - and that of his beloved Berta. Finishing his time at Oxford, he returns to Madrid to marry her, already knowing that the life they planned has been lost forever.
Darkly gripping, Berta Isla examines a relationship condemned to secrecy and concealment, to pretence and conjecture, to resentment mingled with loyalty. With meticulous insight and understanding of the human soul, Marias examines the urge to change our destiny, and the hopeless exile we bring upon ourselves.
Berta Isla and Tomas Nevinson meet in Madrid. Young and in love, they quickly decide to spend their lives together - never suspecting that they will grow to be total strangers, both living under the shadow of disappearances.
Tomas, half-Spanish and half-English, has an extraordinary gift for languages and accents. Leaving Berta to study at Oxford, he catches the interest of a certain government agency, and its mysterious agent, Bertram Tupra.
Tomas is determined to evade the agent's attentions but his fate is sealed by an escalating series of events that will affect the rest of his life - and that of his beloved Berta. Finishing his time at Oxford, he returns to Madrid to marry her, already knowing that the life they planned has been lost forever.
Darkly gripping, Berta Isla examines a relationship condemned to secrecy and concealment, to pretence and conjecture, to resentment mingled with loyalty. With meticulous insight and understanding of the human soul, Marias examines the urge to change our destiny, and the hopeless exile we bring upon ourselves.
PRESS REVIEWS
«The most subtle and gifted writer in contemporary Spanish literature»
Boston Globe
«No one else, anywhere, is writing quite like this»
Daily Telegraph
DETAILS
| Property | Description |
|---|---|
| ISBN: | 9780241983553 |
| Publisher: | PENGUIN BOOKS LTD |
| Release Date: | October of 2019 |
| Language: | English |
| Dimensions: | 128 x 196 x 33 mm |
| Cover: | Softcover |
| Pages: | 544 |
| Format: | Book |
| Categories: |
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| EAN: | 9780241983553 |
REVIEWS
Bom mas podia ser menos longo
Susana Fernandes
Eu gostei de ler este livro pela trama e pela personagem Berta Isla. Sofremos com ela e percebemos la tão bem no entanto o livro é muito longo e a ação não se justifica as 500 e tal páginas. Li-o todo mas não se justifica tanta página .
Livro emblemático
Sandra
Um dos mais conhecidos livros de Marías, uma obra chave na literatura espanhola actual.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Javier Marías
Javier Marías (1951-2022) was born in Madrid.
He was one of the most outstanding Spanish writers of the last fifty years.
His work has been published in 46 languages and 59 countries, with approximately ten million copies sold worldwide.
He wrote sixteen novels, several books of short stories and essays, most of which were published in Portugal by Alfaguara. Thomas Nevinson, Bertha Island (Critics' Award) This is how evil begins., Infatuations (Award Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa; Award What to Read), A heart so white (Critics' Award; Prix l'Oeil et la LetreIMPAC Dublin Literary Prize), Tomorrow in battle, think of me. (Award Fastenrath; Award Romulo Gallegos; Prix Fémina Étranger), All souls, the trilogy Your face tomorrow, and the volume of short stories No more love.
For his body of work, he received numerous awards and distinctions:
Award Nelly Sachs (Dortmund, 1997); Prize Community of Madrid (1998); Prize Grinzane Cavour (Turin, 2000); Prize Alberto Moravia (Rome, 2000); Prize Alessio (Turin, 2008), Prize José Donoso (Chile, 2008); The America Prize (2010) Award Nonino (Udine, 2011); European Literary Prize (2011); Prize Formentor (2013); Prize Boattari Lattes Grinzane (2015); Award Liber (2017).
Among his translations, the following stand out. Tristram Shandy (National Translation Prize in Spain, 1979).
He was a professor at the University of Oxford and at the Complutense University of Madrid.
He was, until his death, a member of the Royal Spanish Academy and in 2021 was elected an international member of the Royal Society of Literature, the UK charity organization for the promotion of literature.
He died in September 2022, days before his seventy-first birthday, leaving his readers an extraordinary body of work that will endure over time.
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