by Javier Marías · DEBOLSILLO · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788483461730
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«Negra espalda del tiempo» is the novel by Javier Marías, published by Debolsillo in paperback (336 pages, in Spanish).
Javier Marías defined the work as a «falsa novela»: following «Todas las almas», his reality is invaded by fiction and the boundaries between the imagined and the lived become blurred. It features a left-handed boy who writes his name backwards, a stray bullet in Mexico, a curse in Havana, and a one-eyed pilot whom death always eluded.
It belongs to the Contemporánea collection from Debolsillo, in a 2006 edition; the work was originally published in 1998.
For readers of contemporary fiction and followers of Javier Marías, a work that plays with the boundaries between literature and life.
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).
