by Javier Marías · Vintage Books · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780099553922
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«While the Women are Sleeping» is Javier Marías's collection of short stories, published by Vintage Books in paperback (144 pages, in English).
Stories that span Javier Marías's career and peer into the margins of life, with elusive, obsessive characters: a vagrant, a butler, a bodyguard and a ghost. Unsettling tales of doubles and obsessions, such as a man who records his young lover or a ghost condemned to resign again and again.
Collection of short stories translated from the original Spanish «Mientras ellas duermen» (1990); this English edition appeared in 2011.
For readers of literary fiction and short stories, especially those interested in contemporary Spanish narrative and the work of Javier Marías.
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).
