by Javier Marías · Alfaguara · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788420483856
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«Todas las almas» is the novel by Javier Marías published by Alfaguara in paperback within the Bolsillo collection (304 pages, in Spanish).
A Spanish professor lives in Oxford for two years, where his life becomes intertwined with that of a gallery of eccentric characters wrapped in enigmas. The university city becomes the axis of a narrative that explores memory, friendship and the passage of time, with an ironic look at academic life.
The novel originally appeared in 1989, the year Javier Marías received the Premi Ciutat de Barcelona; this edition is from 1998.
For readers of contemporary literary fiction and novels with a university setting, as well as for followers of Javier Marías's work.
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).
