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womanizer with no need for commitment, is obsessively in love with Luisa and only awaits the day when the mourning for the loss of her husband subsides. Javier's intense care for Luisa seems suspicious to Maria. Overhearing a conversation, she notices the obvious connection between Miguel's death and Javier. Javier admits to blackmailing the drifter into killing Desvern, which he justifies by citing Miguel's apparently terminal illness. After the failed relationship with Javier, Maria investigates the murder on the internet and is surprised why none of the journalists mention the fateful diagnosis about Miguel. Did Javier want to eliminate a rival? Two years later, Maria attends a business lunch, and a few moments later Luisa and Javier also appear, wearing identical rings. Maria thinks that Javier has achieved his goal.
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The novel tells the story of literary editor María Dolz, who, through the daily vision of a couple in love in her favorite café, perceives a situation that she finds much more pleasant than the bad novels she has to deal with at her job. From one day to the next, however, the couple disappears and
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Maria tries to get close to Luisa, Miguel's widow, and they become friends. Also in Luisa's entourage is Desvern's best friend, Javier DĂ­az-Varela, with whom MarĂ­a falls in love, although she quickly realizes that the latter's ties to the young widow are most ambiguous. Javier, once a restless
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Maria learns what happened from the newspaper. The man was Miguel Deverne, a film businessman who was stabbed to death by the vagrant Luis Felipe Vázquez Canella.
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The book received generally positive reviews from critics. It was well-received among British press. On
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In 2019 it was listed as one of the hundred best books of the 21st century by
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Javier MarĂ­as
Margaret Jull Costa
Alfaguara
Spanish
National Novel Prize
novel
Javier MarĂ­as
Margaret Jull Costa
Hamish Hamilton
National Book Critics Circle Award
The Omnivore
Book Marks
The Guardian
"Spanish novelist Javier Marías turns down €20,000 government prize"
guardian.co.uk
"NBCC finalists announced"
Melville House Publishing
"Announcing the National Book Critics Awards Finalists for Publishing Year 2013"
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"The Infatuations"
The Omnivore
"The Infatuations"
Book Marks
"The 100 best books of the 21st century"
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Javier MarĂ­as
A Heart So White

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