by Javier Marías · DEBOLSILLO · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788483461402
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«Corazón tan blanco» is the novel by Javier Marías, published by Debolsillo in paperback (320 pages, in Spanish).
Juan Ranz, translator and interpreter, newly married, overhears a conversation on his honeymoon in Havana that plants a dark foreboding about his marriage. The key to his unease seems to lie in his father's past, who had to marry three times. A story about secrecy, suspicion, and what one chooses to know or keep silent about.
Originally published in 1992, it won the Premio de la Crítica and the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award. It belongs to Debolsillo's Contemporánea collection.
For readers of contemporary Spanish-language fiction, with an interest in introspection and psychological suspense, aged 16 and up.
Javier Marías Franco was a Spanish author, translator, and columnist. Marías published fifteen novels, including A Heart So White, Tomorrow in the Battle Think on Me and the Your Face Tomorrow trilogy, widely regarded as his greatest achievement. In addition to his novels, he also published three collections of short stories and various essays. As one of Spain's most celebrated novelists, his books have been translated into forty-six languages and sold close to nine million copies internationally. He received several awards for his work, such as the Rómulo Gallegos Prize (1995), the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award (1997), the International Nonino Prize (2011), and the Austrian State Prize for European Literature (2011).
