A Heart So White
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A Heart So White (
Plot
The narrator, Juan, seeks to use his newly-wed wife, Luisa, to uncover the murky past of his father's previous marriages which include (aside from Juan's mother) two other women. The first of these women is unnamed and kept secret from Juan, while the second was the older sister of Juan's mother.
Reception
The New York Times wrote "Marías's challenging and seductive technique reaches its pinnacle in A Heart So White."[3] The Independent wrote that it "starts from a suicide to explore the secrets of two marriages with all the hypnotic, even sinister, beauty of his style."[4] BOMB magazine described the novel as "traditional" and "refreshingly un-American."[5] Marías and the translator Margaret Jull Costa were the joint winners of the International Dublin Literary Awards.[6]
References
- ^ "Megustaleer. Corazón tan blanco (edición conmemorativa 25º aniversario)".
- ^ Marías, Javier. "A Heart so White". www.penguin.co.uk. Retrieved 2019-08-21.
- ^ "Stranger Than Fiction". movies2.nytimes.com. Retrieved 2019-08-21.
- ^ "A Heart So White, By Javier Marias". The Independent. 2012-08-11. Retrieved 2019-08-21.
- ^ "Javier Marías's A Heart So White by Minna Proctor - BOMB Magazine". bombmagazine.org. Retrieved 2019-08-21.
- ^ Battersby, Eileen (15 May 1997). "Spaniard awarded £100,000 Dublin literary prize". The Irish Times. Retrieved 2022-09-11.
External links
- "Stranger Than Fiction," by Wendy Lesser, New York Times, May 6, 2001.
- A Heart So White reviewed by Ben Donnelly, Review of Contemporary Fiction, Spring 2001.
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