by Javier Marías · ALFAGUARA · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788420454597
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«Tomás Nevinson» is the thriller novel by Javier Marías, published by Alfaguara in paperback (688 pages, in Spanish).
Tomás Nevinson, husband of Berta Isla, comes out of retirement to work with the secret services: his former boss Bertram Tupra asks him to locate, in a northwestern city, a person involved in IRA and ETA attacks ten years earlier. The novel reflects on «Thou shalt not kill», the difficulty of choosing, and the evil that is avoided.
Published in 2021, it is the second instalment of the «Nevinson» series, a continuation of «Berta Isla».
For readers of literary fiction seeking a spy plot with moral dilemmas.
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).
