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| Title | : | Tomorrow in the Battle Think on Me |
| Author | : | Javier Marías |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Deluxe Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 320 pages |
| Published | : | October 17th 2001 by New Directions (first published 1994) |
| Categories | : | Fiction. Cultural. Spain. European Literature. Spanish Literature. Contemporary |
Javier Marías
Paperback | Pages: 320 pages Rating: 4 | 4380 Users | 455 Reviews
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"No one ever suspects," begins Tomorrow in the Battle Think On Me, "that they might one day find themselves with a dead woman in their arms...." Marta has just met Victor when she invites him to dinner at her Madrid apartment while her husband is away on business. When her two-year-old son finally falls asleep, Marta and Victor retreat to the bedroom. Undressing, she suddenly feels ill; and in his arms, inexplicably, she dies.What should Victor do? Remove the compromising tape from the phone machine? Leave food for the child, for breakfast? These are just his first steps, but he soon takes matters further; unable to bear the shadows and the unknowing, Victor plunges into dark waters. And Javier Marías, Europe's master of secrets, of what lies reveal and truth may conceal, is on sure ground in this profound, quirky, and marvelous novel. "Brilliantly imagined and hugely intricate," as La Vanguardia noted, "it is a novel one reads with enormous pleasure."
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| Original Title: | Mañana en la batalla piensa en mí |
| ISBN: | 0811214826 (ISBN13: 9780811214827) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Characters: | Marta |
| Setting: | Madrid(Spain) |
| Literary Awards: | Premio Internacional de Novela Rómulo Gallegos (1995), Prix Femina for Étranger (1996), Premio Fastenrath (1994), Premio San Clemente for Novela Castelá (1996) |
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Ratings: 4 From 4380 Users | 455 ReviewsWrite Up Of Books Tomorrow in the Battle Think on Me
2.5/5I find it of interest, whose fear is considered valid and whose is not. Adulterers, government officials, prostitutes, stalkers and posers, insomniacs and purchasers of the flesh. The gap would be entertaining if rape victims were not blamed for their victimization and girlfriends in the refrigerator were not such a dick-driven trope and literature entirely existed within a vacuum, but alas. Regardless, I do not come to much praised echelons of literature to immerse myself in the skeevy(view spoiler)[Bettie's BooksThe rating, any status updates, and those bookshelves, indicate my feelings for this book. (hide spoiler)]
I can see the attraction of the first person narrator. The risk, it must be said, is considerable: confinement to a single point of view can be rocks in the pockets of a plot that is trying to swim free. The exclusive and unrelieved company of a strident or grating voice can swiftly turn potential reading pleasure to pain. But a writer must find a certain tone of voice, an attitude towards the tale to be told that remains consistent. There is nothing more jarring than a sudden collapse into a
This book no longer exists.I told this to the owner of the bookstore, it was of course empty. You are the second person to complain. The first was much younger than you. More my age. You have not read the book, I asked as he sat at the edge of a table mostly emptied. He shook his head. Then, that would explain it, I would like my money returned. Can't do. But I no longer have a book that I bought here. Explain yourself.O.K. It begins with a dead woman in the narrator's arms. He will remember her
I feel like I can't reasonably rate this book, because a thing happened that's similar to what happened with me and the vegetarian cabbage rolls at the Middle Eastern market by my house.A few months ago, I tasted those vegetarian cabbage rolls for the first time and concluded that they were the most delicious thing I'd ever had in my life. Being as I am, I became completely obsessed and started making long, sweaty treks through the Miami humidity to fetch them, especially once I realized I
Marvellous. Loved the serpentine sentences with their astonishing thought-within-thought, near-metaphysical poetic lilt, preference for the cosy comma over the sloppy semicolon, their use of not-oft-seen things like reported speech (and thought!) within parentheses, or another characters dialogue(!), repeated phrases (dark back of time about six times) and callback to earlier passages and quotations to elevate the plot matter to something loftier than the obvious. Mike is rightMarías, aside from
It is unbearable that people we know should suddenly be relegated to the past.Death is inevitable. From the very first page of Javier Marías flawlessly executed novel Tomorrow In the Battle Think On Me, death becomes a constant companion to the reader, always whispering in our ear the truths of our impermanence and the endless variety of possible deaths that await us horrible deaths, ridiculous deaths, death that may make a stranger laugh when they read it in the paper. Any dead life lasts
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