by Javier Marías · Chatto & Windus · tapa dura · ISBN 9780701186197
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«While the Women are Sleeping» is Javier Marías's collection of short stories, published by Chatto & Windus in hardcover (144 pages, in English).
Unsettling stories about characters on the margins of society —vagrants, butlers, bodyguards, ghosts— and their perverse obsessions. In the title story, a man records his young lover and confesses his plans to a stranger; in another, a ghost is condemned to resign again and again.
Translated into English by Margaret Jull Costa. The original Spanish work is titled «Mientras ellas duermen».
For readers of contemporary literature and short stories who appreciate unsettling plots and marginal characters.
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).
