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Fiction still isn't free from the postwar suspicion of deep loves and loyalties.

In the spy novels of Javier Marías, the late author never stopped reinventing himself.

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The hero of “Tomás Nevinson” is plucked from retirement for a tough final mission | Culture

“Tomás Nevinson,” the final novel by the late Spanish writer, sends a washed-up agent in search of a terrorist.

Aided by the consistency of Margaret Jull Costa’s translation, the late author’s last novel is an engaging exploration of familiar themes, writes Declan O’Driscoll

Late Spanish author’s final novel, translated by Margaret Jull Costa, questions identity and morality

No-one nowadays writes prose like Javier Marías, who died last year a few days shy of his 70th birthday. His sentences, as his long-time translator…

The Spanish novelist’s final book is a twisting espionage tale shot through with slantwise humour

In Tomás Nevinson, his final novel, Javier Marías combines a comic, erotic mystery plot with an irresistible prose style