When I was mortal / Javier Marías ; translated by Margaret Jull Costa.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Marías, Javier.

Contributor:

Costa, Margaret Jull.

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Standardized Title:

Cuando fui mortal. English

Language:

English

Spanish

Subjects (All):

Short stories.

Genre:

Fiction.

Penn Provenance:

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copies 1 & 2)

Physical Description:

x, 162 pages ; 21 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : New Directions Pub. Corp., 2000.

Summary:

When I Was Mortal collects a dozen stories by Javier Marias, "justly considered the most talented Spanish author alive" (Il Messaggero). Victims of mistaken identity, amateur sleuths, professional liars, eavesdroppers, assassins, and failed bodyguards populate these remarkable tales. Plots turn on curious exigencies --- a woman about to star in her first porn film; a night doctor who adds new meaning to "specialist"; a neglectful ghost.

Javier Marias was born in Madrid in 1951. His novels (which have sold more than two and a half million copies worldwide) have been translated into two dozen languages and have won the Ciudad de Barcelona prize, The Spanish Critics' Award, the Premio Internacional de Novela Romulo Gallegos, the Prize Femina Etranger, the Nelly-Sachs Prize, and the Dublin International Impac Award.

Contents:

The night doctor

The Italian legacy

On the honeymoon

Broken binoculars

Unfinished figures

Flesh Sunday

When I was mortal

Everything bad comes back

Fewer scruples

Spear blood

In uncertain time

No more loves.

Local Notes:

Gotham Book Mart Collection copies 1 & 2 have dustjacket retained.

ISBN:

0811214311

9780811214315

OCLC:

42980307