Your Face Tomorrow 2: Dance and Dream (Your Face Tomorrow Trilogy) [Paperback]

`History and memory rub shoulders with a connoisseur's wealth of literature'.

‘gripping and strange’ --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.

‘funny and enlightening’
--This text refers to the Hardcover edition.

Chosen by Todd McEwan. `will have you shouting from your roof.' --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.

Volume 2 in Javier Marias's brilliant, audacious and compelling trilogy

Your Face Tomorrow, Javier Marias's dazzling unfolding magnum opus is a novel in three parts which began with Fever and Spear (Chatto 2005). Described as an 'intriguing and audacious experiment' (Sunday Times) and an 'outstanding spy novel of ideas' (Independent), the book now takes us even deeper into the dark world of Jacques Deza as, in volume two, his relationship with his shadowy boss, Bertram Tupra, becomes increasingly disconcerting.

Jacques Deza is in a kind of limbo. Separated from his wife and child, living in London to make a break from Spain, he has found work with an M16-like organisation who employ him for his acute powers of observation and insight into human nature. But, as Jacques discovers to his cost, it is not possible to distance yourself from other human beings entirely. Just to listen to someone asking you a favour, however insignificant, is to become implicated in their lives. And when your boss forces you to watch him lure a man into a nightclub toilet and threaten to execute him with a sword, your innocence is definitely suspect. Jacques finds himself remembering his father's horrifying stories of the Spanish Civil War ...

Will Jacques manage to remain morally unharmed and will Marias sustain this novel's brilliantly digressive dance? The reader longs for volume three in order to find out.

Volume 2 in Javier Marias's brilliant, audacious and compelling trilogy

Javier Marias was born in 1951. He has published eleven novels, two collections of stories and a number of essay collections, winning a dazzling array of international literary awards. His work has been translated into thirty-four languages and more than five million copies of his books have been sold worldwide. He has held academic posts in Spain, the United States and in Britain, as Lecturer in Spanish Literature at Oxford University. He lives in Madrid.