While the Women Are Sleeping

Slippery figures in anomalous situations - ghosts, spies, bodyguards, criminals- haunt these stories by Javier Marías: 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, Marías manages in a small space to perplex and delight. "The short story fits Marías 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).

Author: Javier Marías
Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
Published: 11/13/2012
Pages: 144
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.39lbs
Size: 7.90h x 5.30w x 0.50d
ISBN13: 9780811219143
ISBN10: 0811219143
BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Short Stories (single author)