While the Women Are Sleeping

By Javier Marías and Javier Mar as

Book Overview

Slippery figures in anomalous situations -- ghosts, spies, bodyguards, criminals -- haunt these stories by Javier Mar?as: the characters come bearing their strange and special secrets, and never leave our minds. In one story, a man obsessed with his much younger lover endlessly videotapes her every move, and then confides his surprising plans for her; in another a ghost can't stop resigning from his job. Masterfully, Mar?as manages in a small space to perplex and delight. "The short story fits Mar?as like a glove," as Le Point noted. His stories have been hailed as "formidably intelligent" (The London Review of Books), "a bracing tonic" (Chicago Tribune), and "startling" (The New York Times Book Review).

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0811216632
• ISBN13: 9780811216630
• Release Date: November 2010
• Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
• Length: 144 Pages
• Weight: 0.66 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.6" x 8.3"