Tomorrow In The Battle Think On Me
Condition: SECONDHAND
This is a secondhand book. The jacket image is a photograph of the exact copy we have in stock. This image shows the condition of this book. Further condition remarks are below.
Edition: advance reading copy
Condition remarks:
Book: Very good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Yellowed
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
What begins as an ordinary evening in Madrid spirals into something darkly unforgettable when a woman suddenly dies in the arms of a man she has only just met — a stranger who, rather than call for help, slips quietly into the night. Tomorrow in the Battle Think on Me is a gripping psychological novel that chronicles the aftermath of this strange, unsettling event, following its protagonist Víctor through a labyrinth of guilt, memory, and moral ambiguity, as he finds himself drawn ever deeper into the life of the woman he could not save and the family she left behind. Javier Marías, one of Spain's most celebrated and internationally acclaimed literary voices, constructs a meditation on death, secrecy, and the invisible threads that bind — and haunt — human lives. Translated from the Spanish with luminous precision by Margaret Jull Costa, the novel is saturated with Marías's signature style: long, sinuous sentences that mirror the restless, circling nature of a mind that cannot let go. Borrowing its title from Shakespeare's Richard III, the book reminds us that the ghosts of our choices — and our silences — have a way of returning to demand their due. Who, ultimately, bears responsibility for what we witness and do nothing to prevent?
Author: Javier Marias
Format: Paperback
Published: 1996, Harcourt Brace & Company
Genre: Modern fiction
Edition: advance reading copy
Condition remarks:
Book: Very good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Yellowed
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
What begins as an ordinary evening in Madrid spirals into something darkly unforgettable when a woman suddenly dies in the arms of a man she has only just met — a stranger who, rather than call for help, slips quietly into the night. Tomorrow in the Battle Think on Me is a gripping psychological novel that chronicles the aftermath of this strange, unsettling event, following its protagonist Víctor through a labyrinth of guilt, memory, and moral ambiguity, as he finds himself drawn ever deeper into the life of the woman he could not save and the family she left behind. Javier Marías, one of Spain's most celebrated and internationally acclaimed literary voices, constructs a meditation on death, secrecy, and the invisible threads that bind — and haunt — human lives. Translated from the Spanish with luminous precision by Margaret Jull Costa, the novel is saturated with Marías's signature style: long, sinuous sentences that mirror the restless, circling nature of a mind that cannot let go. Borrowing its title from Shakespeare's Richard III, the book reminds us that the ghosts of our choices — and our silences — have a way of returning to demand their due. Who, ultimately, bears responsibility for what we witness and do nothing to prevent?