The Infatuations
Author: Javier Marías
The award-winning, internationally best-selling Spanish writer joins the Knopf list with an immersive, provocative novel propelled by a seemingly random murder that we come to understand–or do we?–through one woman’s ever-unfurling imagination, meditations, and infatuations.At the Madrid café where she stops for breakfast each day before work, María Dolz finds herself dr….Read More
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