{"product_id":"all-souls-paperback","title":"All Souls - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJavier Marías\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eJohn Banville\u003c\/b\u003e (Introduction by)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom one of the most important voices in world literature--and the award-winning author of \u003ci\u003eThe Infatuations--\u003c\/i\u003ea darkly comic campus novel and love story about that most British of institutions, Oxford University. \u003cb\u003e- \u003c\/b\u003e\"Javier Marías is in my opinion one of the best contemporary writers.\" --J.M. Coetzee, Nobel Prize-winning author of \u003ci\u003eDisgrace\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eAll Souls\u003c\/i\u003e, a visiting Spanish lecturer, viewing Oxford through a prismatic detachment, is alternately amused, puzzled, delighted, and disgusted by its vagaries of human vanity. A bit lonely, not always able to see his charming but very married mistress, he casts about for activity; he barely has to teach. Yet so much goes into simply \"being\" at Oxford: friendship, opinion-mongering, one-upmanship, finicky exchanges of favors, gossip, adultery, book-collecting, back-patting, backstabbing. Marías demonstrates a sweet tooth for eccentricity in this novel from \"one of the best contemporary writers\" (J.M. Coetzee, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eJAVIER MARÍAS was born in Madrid in 1951. He has published fifteen novels, including \u003ci\u003eThe Infatuations\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eA Heart So White, \u003c\/i\u003e as well as three collections of short stories and several volumes of essays. His work has been translated into forty-four languages, has sold more than eight and a half million copies worldwide, and has won a dazzling array of international literary awards, including the prestigious International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award and the Prix Femina Étranger. He died in 2022. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eTranslated by Margaret Jull Costa\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 240\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.8 x 7.9 x 5.1 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e April 23, 2013\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47227214266617,"sku":"9780307950772","price":21.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/2782\/3097\/files\/Y0VvWmZKbFc5VCtRZkRVY0FQVXp1Zz09.webp?v=1768279017","url":"https:\/\/bookscloud.io\/products\/all-souls-paperback","provider":"BooksCloud Book Dropshipping","version":"1.0","type":"link"}