Your Face Tomorrow 3: Poison, Shadow and Farewell (Your Face Tomorrow Trilogy) [Hardcover]

`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

The concluding part to Marias's masterwork: 'This trilogy must be one of the greatest novels of our age' (Antony Beevor)

Jacques Deza is back in London and once again working for the mysterious intelligence agency run by Bertram Tupra. Deza finds himself forced to watch Tupra's collection of incriminating videotapes of important public figures. The recordings document unconventional private lives - and horrific acts. The scenes enter him like a poison, contaminating everything good, yet he is powerless to counteract them.

Mind and memory polluted, Deza goes home to Madrid on leave to find his father gently slipping towards death, and his wife, Luisa, involved with a new man. Set against a background of brutality, Poison, Shadow and Farewell asks whether violence can ever be justified and completes the extraordinary journey that has led us on a descent into hell and a re-emergence, not entirely unscathed, into life.

Javier Marias has been called 'the most significant Spanish writer of his generation' and in a bravura performance he draws together themes not only from earlier volumes in the trilogy but from his entire body of work, to provide a thrilling end to his magnum opus.

Your Face Tomorrow: Poison, Shadow and Farewell is the concluding part in Javier Marias's spy trilogy masterwork.

Jacques Deza is back in London and once again working for the secret intelligence agency run by his old Oxford friend Bernard Tupra. Deza finds himself increasingly under the spell of his shadowy boss, forced to witness a savage attack on an old man and watch Tupra's collection of incriminating videotapes of important public figures. The recordings document unconventional private lives - and horrific acts. The scenes enter him like a poison, contaminating everything good, yet he is powerless to counteract them.

Mind and memory poisoned, Deza goes home to Madrid on leave to find his father, a Civil War veteran, gently slipping towards death and his wife, Luisa, seeing a new man. Set against a background of brutality, Poison, Shadow and Farewell asks whether violence can ever be justified and completes the extraordinary journey that has led us on a descent into hell and a re-emergence, not entirely unscathed, into life.

Javier Marias has been called 'the most significant Spanish writer of his generation' and in a bravura performance he draws together themes not only from earlier volumes in the trilogy but from his entire body of work, to provide a thrilling end to his magnum opus.

Praise for Javier Marias:

'This trilogy must be one of the greatest novels of our age' Antony Beevor

'One of contemporary literature's major works...you have to open this book' Ali Smith

'Javier Marías is, in my opinion, one of the best contemporary European authors' J.M. Coetzee

'Your Face Tomorrow is already being compared with Proust and rightly so. It is a novel of extraordinary subtlety and pathos' Observer

'One of the best minds in fiction today. A work of urgent originality' Independent

'A deeply necessary writer, funny, pungent, full of wrath and love' Guardian

Javier Marias was born in 1951. He has published twelve 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 37 languages in 47 countries and more than six 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, and has recently been nominated a member of the Real Academia de la Lengua Española. He lives in Madrid.