All Souls

All Souls is the story of two strange, fog-covered years that the narrator spent at Oxford University, in a city outside the world and time.< /p>

The fascinating heroes of this novel also live outside the world and time: The narrator's married love, the enigmatic Clare Bayes, who has been under the influence of an event she witnessed but cannot remember throughout her life. Cromer-Blake, the narrator's friend. A cynical homosexual who accumulates intense experiences for the days he foresees spending alone in his old age. The wise retired professor Toby Rylands. Alan Marriott, the hobo with his three-legged dog and his knowledge of the "terrible wife" we all have... And John Gawsworth, the mysterious writer from another time, among others.

With mysteries and intrigues, formals and wild dinners. , in a world full of secret pasts and sickly present times, the narrator sets out to weave his own "madness" and his own story with those of the inhabitants of this "mothballed" city, and ends up with a railway bridge crossing a river in India, some star-crossed lovers, a spy career... or he discovers that many things that seem unrelated to each other, such as the tiny island of Redonda, will form a part of his life: A life that will forever bear the trace of these unexpected relationships of love and friendship between all souls.

“Dizzying... Javier Marías While writing with elegance and quick wit, he also demonstrates his mastery in the art of making the reader curious...

(From the Promotional Bulletin)

Dough Type:2. Dough

Number of Pages: 184

Size: 13.5 x 21

First Print Year: 2020

Number of Prints: 1. Edition

Language : Turkish