While the women are sleeping
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While the women are sleeping
（A New Directions paperbook, 1242）（A New Directions book）
New Directions, 2010
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Mientras ellas duermen
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Originally published: Grupo Santillana de Ediciones, 1990
Contents of Works
- While the women are sleeping
- Gualta
- One night of love
- Lord Rendall's song
- An epigram of fealty
- A kind of nostalgia perhaps
- The resignation letter of Señor de Santiesteban
- The life and death of Marcelino Iturriaga
- Isaac's journey
- What the butler said
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Slippery figures in anomalous situations - ghosts, spies, bodyguards, criminals- haunt these stories by Javier Marias: the characters come bearing their strange and special secrets, and never leave our minds. In one story, a man obsessed with his much younger lover endlessly videotapes her every move,and then confides his surprising plans for her; in another, a ghost can't stop resigning from his job. Masterfully, Marias manages in a small space to perplex and delight. "The short story fits Marias like a glove," as Le point noted. His stories have been hailed as "formidably intelligent" (The London Review of Books), "a bracing tonic" (The Chicago Tribune), and "startling" (The New York Times Book Review).
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