Your Face Tomorrow

Reviews

"Poison, Shadow and Farewell delivers a payoff at the end, but the real challenge, and pleasure, is in getting there." — Larry Rohter, The New York Times

"This brilliant trilogy must be one of the greatest novels of our age." — Antony Beevor, Sunday Telegraph [London]

"Like the other volumes in the sequence, Poison, Shadow and Farewell is as stealthy as any spy." — Louise Welsh, Financial Times

"This deeply strange creation…may very well be the first authentic literary masterpiece of the 21st century." — James Lasdun, The Guardian [UK]

"Quite unlike anything else today…. One of the finest novels of modern times." — Tim Martin, The Telegraph [UK]

"A literary tour de force ... as much about the past from which we are made as the present we have become." — The Economist

"The conclusion…is to be reminded of the intricacy with which he has fitted his pieces into the larger part." — Colin Torre, Kansas City Free Press

"His most moving and personal work to date." — Megan Doll, The Believer

"The fear and pain that Marías has built up for a thousand pages oozes out like oily fate." — Justin McNeil, Bomblog

"Your Face Tomorrow is already being compared to Proust’s A la recherche du temps perdu, and rightly so." — The Observer

"The overall effect recalls the cerebral play of Borges, the dark humor of Pynchon, and meditative lyricism of Proust.”" — Review of Contemporary Fiction

"By one of the most original writers at work today, Your Face Tomorrow [is] as accomplished and sui generis as all his mature work [and the] most affecting narrative feat in Marías’s work to date." — The New York Times Book Review

"He mediates thriller or noir scenarios through a formidably erudite and elegant and sophisticated consciousness." — Mark Ford, New York Review of Books

"A seriousness of purpose, an eagerness to engage with ... metaphysical questions and to incorporate them into a gripping story." — Tess Lewis, New Criterion