by Javier Marías · ALFAGUARA · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788420407159
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«Los dominios del lobo» is Javier Marías's first novel, published by Alfaguara in paperback (312 pages, in Spanish).
The novel opens with the collapse of the Taeger family in Pittsburgh in 1922 and chains together adventures spanning crime fiction, melodrama, police intrigue, gangster struggles and Southern exoticism. It is a parody and a homage to classic Hollywood, with irony, bold structure and great storytelling ability.
Javier Marías wrote this work between the ages of seventeen and eighteen, and it was originally published in 1971. This Alfaguara edition appeared in 2011 in the Hispánica collection.
For readers of literary fiction, crime and intrigue, and for those who want to discover Javier Marías's beginnings.
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).
