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Poison, Shadow and Farewell

Javier Marías

出版	Chatto & Windus, 2009
主題	Fiction / GeneralFiction / City Life
ISBN	070118342X9780701183424
URL	http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=_GKsMQEACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api

註釋

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.