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Javier Marías
Your Face Tomorrow, Volume Three: Poison, Shadow and Farewell
Translated from the Spanish by Margaret Jull Costa
978-0-8112-1812-2, Online Ordering

Poison, Shadow and Farewell, with its heightened tensions between meditations and noir narrative, with its wit and ever deeper forays into the mysteries of consciousness, brings Marías’ three-part Your Face Tomorrow to a stunning finale. Already this novel has been acclaimed “exquisite“ (Publishers Weekly), “gorgeous” (Kirkus), and “outstanding: another work of urgent originality” (The Independent, London). Poison, Shadow and Farewell takes our hero Jaime Deza—hired by MI6 as a person of extraordinarily sophisticated powers of perception—back to Madrid to both spy on and try to protect his own family, and into new depths of love and loss, with a fluency on the subject of death that could make a stone weep.

“This brilliant trilogy must be one of the greatest novels of our age.”
—Antony Beevor, The Sunday London Telegraph (Books of the Year)

“Your Face Tomorrow is already being compared to Proust’s À la recherche du temps perdu, and rightly so. It is a novel of extraordinary subtlety and pathos. The next thing Marías deserves is the Nobel Prize.”                                                                        
— The Observer

“By one of the most original writers at work today, Your Face Tomorrow [is] as accomplished and sui generis as all his mature work [and the] most affecting narrative feat in Marías’s work to date.”                                                
—Wyatt Mason, The New York Times Book Review

“Sexy, contemplative, elusive, and addictive.”
—San Francisco Bay Guardian 

“One of the writers who should get the Nobel Prize is Javier Marías.”
—Orhan Pamuk

“There is nothing quite like it in fiction today.”
—Lawrence Venuti, The New York Times Book Review

“The most subtle and gifted writer in contemporary Spanish literature.”
—The Boston Sunday Globe 

The winner of the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award and an array of other literary prizes from around the world, Javier Marías, “a true genius of literary subterfuge” (Joy Press, The Village Voice), was born in Madrid in 1951. Your Face Tomorrow has been called “compulsive and enthralling” (Mark Ford, The New York Review of Books).

Margaret Jull Costa won both the 2008 PEN/Book-of-the-Month Club Translation Prize and the 2008 Oxford Weidenfeld Translation Prize for Eca de Queiros’ The Maias.