Espionage thriller is elevated to literary fiction by the late master Javier Marías
Book review
Javier Marías's untimely death represents a great loss to literature. Photo: Quim Llenas
Luke Warde
Tomás Nevinson, the final novel to be published by Javier Marías, displays many of the features for which the late Spaniard’s work is best known.
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