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Title details for Berta Isla by Javier Marías - Available

Berta Isla

A novel

by Javier Marías
Margaret Jull Costa
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From the award-winning, internationally best-selling Spanish writer, author of The Infatuations, comes a gripping new novel of intrigue and missed chances—at once a spy story and a profound examination of a marriage founded on secrets and lies.
When Berta Isla was a schoolgirl, she decided she would marry Tomás Nevinson—the dashing half-Spanish, half-English boy in her class with an extraordinary gift for languages. But when Tomás returns to Madrid from his studies at Oxford, he is a changed man. Unbeknownst to her, he has been approached by an agent from the British intelligence services, and he has unwittingly set in motion events that will derail forever the life they had planned. With peerless insight into the most shadowed corners of the human soul, Marías plunges the reader into the growing chasm between Berta and Tomás and the decisions that irreversibly change the course of the couple's fate. Berta Isla is a novel of love and truth, fear and secrecy, buried identities, and the destinies we bring upon ourselves.

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  • Release date

    August 6, 2019

  • Formats

    • OverDrive Listen audiobook

      • ISBN: 9781984891853
      • File size: 532941 KB
      • Duration: 18:30:17

  • Languages

    • English

  • Reviews

    • AudioFile Magazine
      This audiobook offers an unusual juxtaposition of momentum and inertia. Both Frankie Corzo and Bruce Mann deliver narrations that are forceful and well delivered. Their voices have a bold quality and a lyrical accent that suit the novel well. While there is a barely restrained air about their energetic readings, the plot of this unusual spy novel lurches between minute descriptions and hasty advances in its narrative, making for a powerful, yet halting, effect. Berta Isla's marriage to Tomas Nevinson is at the heart of the story, and his work with the British Secret Intelligence Service provides much of the conflict. The audiobook is well rendered, and the story is uniquely crafted. The patient listener will not mind the inconsistencies in pacing. L.B.F. © AudioFile 2019, Portland, Maine

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  • OverDrive Listen audiobook

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  • English

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