Dance and Dream
Author: Javier Marías
Your Face Tomorrow, Javier Marias’s dazzling unfolding magnum opus, is a novel in three parts, which began with Volume One: Fever and Spear. Described as a “brilliant dark novel” (Scotland on Sunday), the book now takes a wild swerve in its new volume. Skillfully constructed around a central perplexing and mesmerizing scene in a nightclub, Volume Two: Dance and Dream again….Read More
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