Book description
Tomorrow in the Battle Think on Me is a gripping and moving
meditation on the hold that the dead have over the living, by Javier
Mar as, whose highly-anticipated new novel The Infatuations is
published in 2013.
V ctor, a ghostwriter, is just about to have an affair with Marta, a
married woman, when - in the bedroom, half-undressed - she drops dead
in his arms. He panics and slips away. But Marta's family are all too
aware that she was not alone when she died, and De n, the widowed
husband, is determined to find out who was sharing her bed that night.
V ctor, accustomed to a life of pretending, finds that he cannot live
in the shadows forever.
Javier Mar as was born in Madrid in 1951. He has published ten
novels, two collections of short stories and several volumes of essays.
His work has been translated into thirty-two languages and won a
dazzling array of international literary awards, including the
prestigious Dublin IMPAC award for
A Heart So White
. He is also a highly practised translator into Spanish of English
authors, including Joseph Conrad, Robert Louis Stevenson, Sir Thomas
Browne and Laurence Sterne. He has held academic posts in Spain, the
United States and in Britain, as Lecturer in Spanish Literature at
Oxford University.
