Release Date:- 2013-08-13
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INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER ā¢ NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE FINALIST ā¢ From the award-winning, internationally bestselling Spanish author of A Heart So White comes an immersive, provocative novel propelled by a seemingly random murder.
"Sometimes startling, sometimes hilarious, and always intelligent ... MarĆas [has] a penetrating empathy."āThe New York Times Book Review
Each day before work MarĆa Dolz stops at the same cafĆ©. There she finds herself drawn to a couple who is also there every morning. Observing their seemingly perfect life helps her escape the listlessness of her own. But when the man is brutally murdered and MarĆa approaches the widow to offer her condolences, what began as mere observation turns into an increasingly complicated entanglement. Invited into the widow's home, she meetsāand falls in love withāa man who sheds disturbing new light on the crime. As MarĆa recounts this story, we are given a murder mystery brilliantly encased in a metaphysical enquiry, a novel that grapples with questions of love and death, chance and coincidence, and above all, with the slippery essence of the truth and how it is told.