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Title: Tu Rostro Manana: Fiebre Y Lanza by Javier Marias ISBN: 8-4204655-3-4 Publisher: Alfaguara Ediciones, S.A. (Spain) Pub. Date: 01 November, 2002 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $19.95

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Average Customer Rating: 4 (1 review)

Rating: 4
Summary: How much we can trust each other?
Comment: This is the first novel by Javier Marias i have read. The rythm is slow, enough to review a tragic episode from the Spanish Civil war and make philosophy of our trust/distrust behaviors. The framework of the civil war and the second world war memories puts these behaviors under the disappointing review of Mr. Wheeler, a former british spy, and in the present of the fiction professor at Oxford university and friend of Jacques Deza (the alter ego of Marias in the novel, and the voice in off).

Javier Marias makes me remember the stories written by Jorge Luis Borges. The story, the characters, the facts, are only instruments, temporal (and atractive, and suitable) vehicles to send a message. The entire novel is only a messenger. And the message is a bunch of questions, historical facts, Javier Marías personal insights, and very interesting things about language and feelings, that every reader should "translate", on his/her personal memories, silences, and fears.

It is not a happy story. And you won't finish the book with terrific feelings about people and their deeds. But i think it is a good story to be aware about the recent history of our modern trust on institutions and people, and how vulnerable we could be if we don't see reality, just see it, plainly, instead of using the glasses of fantasy, illusion, and foolishness. And this what i take to me from this long story: our vulnerability towards our fantasies and illusions, and our resistance to see plainly, with no prejudices, reality around us, and in the hearts of the people we met.

A great thought provoking novel.