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Award-winning author Javier Marías weaves a darkly thrilling tale of love betrayal and lives played out in the unhappy shadow of history As a young man Juan de Vere takes a job that will haunt him for the rest of his life. Hi employer is Eduardo Muriel: a famous film director sophisticated and discreet. Muriel’s wife Beatriz is a soft ripe woman who slips through her husband’s home like an unwanted ghost finding solace in other beds. And on the periphery of their lives stands Dr Jorge Van Vechten a old family friend with a shadowy past. Juan enters eagerly into Muriel’s world of glamour and prestige but as time passes he is troubled by many questions that seem to have no answer. Why does Muriel hate Beatriz? How did Beatriz meet Van Vechten? And what happened in the chaotic years after the war?As Juan learns more about his employers his own innocence begins to fall away. Though he starts off as a mere observer he is soon unable to stand on the side lines compelled to interfere ever more dangerously in the dark interior of other people’s lives.Marias presents a study of the infinitely permeable boundaries between private and public selves between observer and participant between the deceptions we suffer from others and those we enact upon ourselves.’No one else anywhere is writing quite like this’ Daily Telegraph on The Infatuations

Javier Marías was born in Madrid in 1951 and died in 2022. He published fifteen novels, three collections of short stories and several volumes of essays. His work has been translated into forty-three languages and has won a dazzling array of international literary awards, including the prestigious Dublin IMPAC award for A Heart So White. He held academic posts in Spain, the United States and in Britain, as Lecturer in Spanish Literature at Oxford University.