Tim Martin is astonished by Poison, Shadow and Farewell by Javier Marías, the concluding part of the Your Face Tomorrow spy trilogy
Excerpt:
The book is also a fearsome examination of violence and betrayal. Marías’s narrative forges links between personal betrayals – in love, or simply by revealing one’s thoughts, “betraying” oneself – and the bad faith of nations; between anger or violent play and the collision of social systems. Your Face Tomorrow is both an inquisitive novel of ideas and a troubling piece of espionage fiction; both a perceptive and compassionate analysis of human connection and an examination of our darkest, most destructive impulses. It deserves to be recognised as one of the finest novels of modern times.
[A wonderful synthesis, a narrative that gives flesh to the nagging realization of the dark warfare in the 'dimensions of alienation' that has been out and about in our world for a very long time.]
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