by Javier Marías · ALFAGUARA · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788420441672
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«Mientras ellas duermen» is Javier Marías's collection of short stories in an expanded edition, published by Alfaguara in paperback (248 pages, in Spanish).
Javier Marías brings together in this volume stories ranging from the fantastic to psychological suspense: a ghost from the 1930s, a Napoleonic officer, Barcelona and British doubles, a woman who writes after dying, and a butler trapped in an elevator. They are self-contained stories that often engage in dialogue with Javier Marías's novels.
Expanded edition published in 2000 within the Hispánica collection; adds four stories to the original selection.
Recommended for readers of short stories and for those who want to approach Javier Marías's short fiction.
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).
