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`the final, and the most powerful ... together the three volumes constitute one of the great novels in modern European literature' --Sunday Telegraph
`like so much of Marías's extraordinary writing, it is unforgettable' --TLS
`This novel... crowns Marias's trilogy and his translator's lively English rendering of it with narrative honour' --Sunday Times
`possibly the most powerful of the series.' --FT
"Your Face Tomorrow ... deserves to be recognised as one of the finest novels of modern times" -- Daily Telegraph
`this... may very well be the first authentic literary masterpiece of the 21st century'.
--Saturday Guardian
"a tour de force, a novel of ideas, rich in allusions and allegory" --The Economist
"it is probably the most powerful and important novel to appear in European literature for some time" --Guardian
`Marias is simply astonishing...even more gripping than its predecessors...Your Face Tomorrow seems to me unparalleled in literature' --Times Literary Supplement
'...remarkable in its high intelligence, style, ambition; puzzling in the way it blurs fact and fiction...a delightfully comic writer' -- Standpoint
'Thrilling stuff' --Daily Mail
'wonderfully intelligent, often disturbing, witty and richly ironic' --The Scotsman
`definitely the most exciting and exquisitely observed work of European fiction for some time' --Seven Magazine in Sunday Telegraph
'Your Face Tomorrow is a remarkable achievement, suspenseful and revelatory'
--The Times
`[Marias] continues his adept weaving of the contemporary narrative into his exhaustively minute and evocative explorations of recent European history'.
--New Statesman
`like so much of Marías's extraordinary writing, it is unforgettable' --TLS
`This novel... crowns Marias's trilogy and his translator's lively English rendering of it with narrative honour' --Sunday Times
`possibly the most powerful of the series.' --FT
"Your Face Tomorrow ... deserves to be recognised as one of the finest novels of modern times" -- Daily Telegraph
`this... may very well be the first authentic literary masterpiece of the 21st century'.
--Saturday Guardian
"a tour de force, a novel of ideas, rich in allusions and allegory" --The Economist
"it is probably the most powerful and important novel to appear in European literature for some time" --Guardian
`Marias is simply astonishing...even more gripping than its predecessors...Your Face Tomorrow seems to me unparalleled in literature' --Times Literary Supplement
'...remarkable in its high intelligence, style, ambition; puzzling in the way it blurs fact and fiction...a delightfully comic writer' -- Standpoint
'Thrilling stuff' --Daily Mail
'wonderfully intelligent, often disturbing, witty and richly ironic' --The Scotsman
`definitely the most exciting and exquisitely observed work of European fiction for some time' --Seven Magazine in Sunday Telegraph
'Your Face Tomorrow is a remarkable achievement, suspenseful and revelatory'
--The Times
`[Marias] continues his adept weaving of the contemporary narrative into his exhaustively minute and evocative explorations of recent European history'.
--New Statesman
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The concluding part to Marias's masterwork: 'This trilogy must be one of the greatest novels of our age' (Antony Beevor)
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An alternative title for a review of this phenomenal final part of the trilogy could be, "One should never tell Anything to Anyone", a dictum of Sir Peter Wheeler(SPW), retired Oxford don, spy during WW II and the Spanish civil war. He was close to members of an ultra-secret group charged with "black propaganda" that created chaos in Germany during WW II. He gives this advice to the trilogy's hero Jaime (etc.)Deza, who works for a 21st-century version of this ex-WW II agency, which has co-opted its staff of no more than seven on SPWs say so, regardless of nationality, no oath required. Privatisation of intelligence gathering is only one of many themes in this trilogy. Blackmail is just one of many tools in the trade's business.
Words can kill. This volume provides plenty of evidence: slips of the tongue, false accusations, a bright idea to discredit an SS-officer, and the horrible consequences, wished for or not. The trilogy's key message is that to win a war requires total determination, anything and everything is allowed, despite there always being innocent victims. In smaller campaigns like scaring away a competitor for the love of the mother of one's children, the application of fear and violence also requires absolute determination. Who in this murky line of business is determined enough and can also cope with the collatoral damage? And if not applied properly, what will survivors do? Deza is put to the test in this final volume...
This third volume and the entire trilogy strive to be a very deep piece of work. It turns out to be more(auto-)biographical than expected when I began Part One: JM wrote two books on his life as a lecturer in Oxford prior to the trilogy starring SPW, who turns out to be a real person after all.
The principal moral of the trilogy is that Western society can no longer cope with and suffer through another very big conflict, as the British did during and after WW II. I will reread Marias' trilogy next year, hoping to understand perhaps 70% of its content. Ultimately, this trilogy is about the Western world today, having become soft, silly, totally ignorant of its roots and fundamental ideas and values, which were fought for, again and again, in history. I understand JM's message, but do not agree with his worldview.
No one is safe as viewed from JM's perspective. Least of all Deza, who at the end of the tale, will have to remain on guard, sleep with one eye open.
Words can kill. This volume provides plenty of evidence: slips of the tongue, false accusations, a bright idea to discredit an SS-officer, and the horrible consequences, wished for or not. The trilogy's key message is that to win a war requires total determination, anything and everything is allowed, despite there always being innocent victims. In smaller campaigns like scaring away a competitor for the love of the mother of one's children, the application of fear and violence also requires absolute determination. Who in this murky line of business is determined enough and can also cope with the collatoral damage? And if not applied properly, what will survivors do? Deza is put to the test in this final volume...
This third volume and the entire trilogy strive to be a very deep piece of work. It turns out to be more(auto-)biographical than expected when I began Part One: JM wrote two books on his life as a lecturer in Oxford prior to the trilogy starring SPW, who turns out to be a real person after all.
The principal moral of the trilogy is that Western society can no longer cope with and suffer through another very big conflict, as the British did during and after WW II. I will reread Marias' trilogy next year, hoping to understand perhaps 70% of its content. Ultimately, this trilogy is about the Western world today, having become soft, silly, totally ignorant of its roots and fundamental ideas and values, which were fought for, again and again, in history. I understand JM's message, but do not agree with his worldview.
No one is safe as viewed from JM's perspective. Least of all Deza, who at the end of the tale, will have to remain on guard, sleep with one eye open.
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