Originally published in three installments (‘Fiebre y Lanza,’ 2002; ‘Baile y Sueño,’ 2004; ‘Veneno y sombra y adiós,’ 2007), Alfaguara relaunches on September 21 ‘Tu rostro mañana,” Javier Marías’ masterpiece for what it really is:

a single, great and monumental novel that foreign critics considered one of the literary works of our time and that was chosen by Babelia as one of the best books in Spanish of the last 25 years.

The main narrator, Jacques, or Jaime or Jacobo Deza, knows the unexpected faces of those around him and his own, and will discover that, under the more or less peaceful world in which we Westerners live, there is always a need for betrayal and violence, imbued in us like a poison. A story that is much more than a fascinating story, told with the mastery of one of the best contemporary novelists, perhaps the most profound and risky.

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