The Infatuations (Vintage International) - Softcover

"Sometimes startling, sometimes hilarious, and always intelligent . . . Marías [has] a penetrating empathy."--New York Times Book Review

"The Infatuations is mysterious and seductive; it's got deception, it's got love affairs, it's got murder. . . sheerly addictive."--Fresh Air/NPR

"Haunting. . . . Evokes verbal puzzle-makers like Borges, and Marías's ingenious chessboard plots bring to mind the 20th century's grand-master strategist, Vladimir Nabokov."--Los Angeles Times

"An arresting story of love and crime."--San Francisco Chronicle

"The unspoken romance at the heart of Marías's work is the recuperation of old-fashioned adventure within perfectly serious, cerebral contemporary fiction."--The Daily Beast

"Great art often emerges from breaking, or at least tweaking, rules. A work that transcends its conventions can produce special results. Here's such a book . . . The Infatuations takes you where very few novels do."--Paste magazine

"A masterly novel . . . The classical themes of love, death, and fate are explored with elegant intelligence by Marías in what is perhaps his best novel so far . . . Extraordinary . . . Marías has defined the ethos of our time."--The Guardian, UK

"Marías has created a splendid tour de force of narrative voice. . . . A luminous performance."--Wichita Eagle

"Javier Marías is a master of first lines. He's a master of other things as well . . . All Marías books feel like chapters in one much longer book. And it's one you should start reading, if you haven't already."--Slate

"Beyond the interesting ideas his work draws on, Marías's novels are simply a pleasure to read . . . The Infatuations, containing the qualities of Marías's best work, is an important addition to his oeuvre."--The Millions

"Marías's novel operates on so many levels simultaneously, it becomes a piece of evidence itself, an artifact that proves its own argument."--The Onion, A. V. Club

"Marías's novel weaves an intricate web, but its triumph is in the power of its narrator. Marías has found the ideal voice--detached, inquisitive, and vigilant--for one of his finest novels."--Los Angeles Review of Books

"A haunting masterpiece."--The Observer, UK