by Javier Marías · Editorial Anagrama · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788433914590
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«Travesía del horizonte» is the modern and contemporary fiction novel by Javier Marías, published by Editorial Anagrama in paperback (208 pages, in Spanish).
The eccentric Captain Kerrigan funds an expedition to Antarctica where artists and scientists coexist, but the voyage becomes complicated when conflicts from the crew's past surface. Constructed as a story within a story, the novel blends homage and parody of the nineteenth-century narrative of Conrad, Henry James or Conan Doyle, with picturesque kidnappings, mysterious manuscripts, Edwardian ladies and seafaring landscapes, served in a leisurely style.
It belongs to number 128 of the Compactos Anagrama collection.
For readers of Javier Marías and contemporary Spanish narrative who enjoy literary games and adventures with a classic air.
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).
