Your Face Tomorrow Volume 1 by Javier Marias Paperback Book 9780241288894

Your Face Tomorrow is already being compared with Proust and rightly so ObserverOne of contemporary literatures major works you have to open this book Ali SmithI am myself my own fever and painJacques Deza has been told he has a gift he can see through people guess just from their faces what will become of them When he encounters the enigmatic Bertram Tupra at a party Deza is persuaded to join a mysterious underground group His task to observe an assortment of people politicians celebrities seemingly ordinary citizens and predict their next move But where will Dezas descent into this twilight world eventually take him The first part of Javier Marias masterly trilogy asks how well we truly know and understand those around usTranslated by Margaret Jull Costa