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Hombre sentimentalJavier Marías

Hombre sentimental

2003168 pages
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4 editions · 3 languages
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"A story of love and memory. On a train journey from Paris to Madrid a young opera singer becomes fascinated by those in his compartment: a middle-aged businessman, his alluring wife and their male traveling companion. Soon his life of constant travel, luxury hotels, rehearsal and performance will become entangled with these three people, and the singer will find himself fatefully consumed by Natalia's beauty. The Man of Feeling is the haunting story of the birth and death of a passion, told in retrospect. Intricately interweaving desire and memory, it explores the nature of love, and asks…

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4 editions · 3 languages
  • Other · English · 2014
    The man of feeling
    Vintage Books, a division of Random House LLC · 182 pages · 9780804172592
  • Other · English · 2003
    The man of feeling
    Harvill · 135 pages · 9781860468926
  • Hardcover · Spanish · 2006
    El hombre sentimental
    DEBOLSILLO · 168 pages · 9788483461389
  • Other · Turkish · 2009
    Duygusal adam
    Sel Yayıncılık · 142 pages · 9789755704128
Man-woman relationshipsMale singersAdulteryFictionFICTION / LiteraryFICTION / PsychologicalFICTION / Romance / GeneralFiction, psychological