Listen to an interview with Ivy Pochoda here But then Marías mesmerises us again and we are swept on by the long, powerful swells of his prose, flawlessly translated by Margaret Jull Costa, and the circling currents of his thought.” This is a spy thriller, but it reads like one transposed into music by Philip Glass … Readers may sometimes feel as impatient as Tupra does, longing for forward movement. “The narrative moves backward or spirals on the spot in a sequence of repetitions with variation, each return bringing us back to a slightly different present. Javier Marías’ Tomás Nevinson, Brandon Taylor’s The Late Americans, and Rachel Louise Snyder’s Women We Buried, Women We Burned all feature among the Best Reviewed Books of the Week.īrought to you by Book Marks, Lit Hub’s “Rotten Tomatoes for books.”
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