While the Women Are Sleeping

By Javier Marías and Javier Mar as

Book Overview

Slippery figures in anomalous situations - ghosts, spies, bodyguards, criminals- haunt these stories by Javier Mar?as: the characters come bearing their strange and special secrets, and never leave our minds. In one story, a man obsessed with his much younger lover endlessly videotapes her every move, and then confides his surprising plans for her; in another, a ghost can't stop resigning from his job. Masterfully, Mar?as manages in a small space to perplex and delight. "The short story fits Mar?as like a glove," as Le point noted. His stories have been hailed as "formidably intelligent" (The London Review of Books), "a bracing tonic" (The Chicago Tribune), and "startling" (The New York Times Book Review).

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0811219143
• ISBN13: 9780811219143
• Release Date: November 2012
• Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
• Length: 144 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.3" x 7.9"