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OverviewThe Tenant and The Motive are two darkly humorous novellas from the award-winning author of Soldiers of Salamis. The Tenant is the mischievous story of Mario Rota, a linguistics professor whose life starts to unravel after he twists his ankle while out jogging one day. A rival professor appears, takes over his classes and bewitches his girlfriend. Where will Rota's nightmare end - and where did it begin? The Motive is a satire about a writer, Álvaro, who becomes obsessed with finding the ideal inspiration for his novel. First he begins spying on his neighbours, then he starts leading them on, creating a reversal of the maxim that art follows life - with some dire consequences. Written with a supremely light touch, these witty novellas are enjoyable masterpieces that linger long in the memory. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Javier Cercas , Anne McLean , Anne McLeanPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Imprint: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Edition: New edition Dimensions: Width: 12.90cm , Height: 1.30cm , Length: 19.80cm Weight: 0.132kg ISBN: 9780747578970ISBN 10: 0747578974 Pages: 192 Publication Date: 15 May 2006 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Out of stock The supplier is temporarily out of stock of this item. It will be ordered for you on backorder and shipped when it becomes available. Language: English Table of ContentsReviews'Javier Cercas is one of the hottest properties in contemporary Spanish fiction Cercas is a superficially humorous and profoundly disturbing author. In his novels, reality is less convincing than fiction and fantasy never stranger than truth' Amanda Hopkinson, Observer 'Both funny and sinister The Motive is a small comic masterpiece with a satisfyingly bleak ending It is a pleasure to read such original, haunting stories in which so much is said with such wit and insight and above all with such refreshing economy' Anne Chisholm, Sunday Telegraph 'Light, clever and enjoyable assured and accomplished' Allan Massie, Daily Telegraph 'Javier Cercas has some twisty Nabokovian fun with the plot the stories convey a sense of a novelist at play' Financial Times 'Javier Cercas is one of the hottest properties in contemporary Spanish fiction ... Cercas is a superficially humorous and profoundly disturbing author. In his novels, reality is less convincing than fiction and fantasy never stranger than truth' Amanda Hopkinson, Observer 'Both funny and sinister ... The Motive is a small comic masterpiece with a satisfyingly bleak ending ... It is a pleasure to read such original, haunting stories in which so much is said with such wit and insight and above all with such refreshing economy' Anne Chisholm, Sunday Telegraph 'Light, clever and enjoyable ... assured and accomplished' Allan Massie, Daily Telegraph 'Javier Cercas has some twisty Nabokovian fun with the plot ... the stories convey a sense of a novelist at play' Financial Times Author InformationAuthor Website: http://www.bloomsbury.com/Authors/details.aspx?tpid=497Javier Cercas is the author of novels, stories and essays. His novel Soldiers of Salamis has sold over 500,000 copies in Spain, been filmed and has been published in twenty languages. He lives in Girona, where he teaches Spanish Literature at the University. Tab Content 6Author Website: http://www.bloomsbury.com/Authors/details.aspx?tpid=497Countries AvailableAll regions |