While the Women Are Sleeping (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780811216630)

Slippery figures in anomalous situations -- ghosts, spies, bodyguards, criminals -- haunt these stories by Javier Marías: the characters come bearing their strange and special secrets, and never leave our minds. In one story, a man obsessed with his much younger lover endlessly videotapes her every move, and then confides his surprising plans for her; in another a ghost can't stop resigning from his job. Masterfully, Marías manages in a small space to perplex and delight. "The short story fits Marías like a glove," as Le Point noted. His stories have been hailed as "formidably intelligent" (The London Review of Books), "a bracing tonic" (Chicago Tribune), and "startling" (The New York Times Book Review).

Author: Javier Marías
ISBN-10: 0811216632
ISBN-13: 9780811216630
Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
Language: English
Published: 11/29/2010
Pages: 144
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.64lbs
Size: 8.30h x 5.61w x 0.69d

Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 09/20/2010
Booklist 11/15/2010 pg. 23
New York Times Book Review 12/19/2010 pg. 17
New York Times Book Review 12/26/2010 pg. 22