Description: "Originally published in Spain as Negra espalda del tiempo by Ediciones Alfaguara, Barcelona, in 1988"--T.p. verso.
Review Quotes: "By far Spain's best writer today." --Roberto Bolaño
"The most subtle and gifted writer in contemporary Spanish literature." --Boston Sunday Globe "Dazzling.... Javier Marías writes with elegance, with wit and with masterful suspense." --The Times Literary Supplement "Stylish, cerebral...Marías is a startling talent...His prose is ambitious, ironic, philosophical, and ultimately compassionate." --The New York Times