Todas las almas

Synopsis of Todas las almas

«Todas las almas» is the novel by Spanish writer Javier Marías, published by Punto de Lectura in paperback (293 pages, in Spanish).

For two years, a Spanish lecturer teaches at the University of Oxford, a city that seems suspended outside time. Around him move characters marked by secrets, intrigues, unhappy loves and old spies. Love, friendship, memory and the passage of time sustain a novel of melancholic tone and introspective gaze.

The novel was originally published in 1989 and won the Premi Ciutat de Barcelona, in the category of literature in the Castilian language. The present edition is from 2000.

For readers of contemporary narrative and literary fiction, with special interest in stories set in the academic world.