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When I Was Mortal

Name: When I Was Mortal
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Marías Javier

Жанр Современная проза

Год 2014

Объём книги: Полная версия

Victims of mistaken identity, sponging relatives, amateur sleuths, eavesdroppers, professional liars, assassins, and failed bodyguards populate the short stories in . Plots turn on curious exigencies — a woman about to star in her first porn film; a night doctor who adds new meaning to "specialist"; a ghost whose neglect is greatly resented. "In the space of ten or twenty pages," as the remarked, "Marías contrives to write a novel." "The short story fits Marías like a glove," as noted, and these stories have been acclaimed as "dazzling" (); "formidably intelligent" (); and "startling" ().

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