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A Heart So White

Javier Marias

Form
Form Novel
Year
Year 1992
Originally in
Originally in Spanish
Pages
Pages 280

A newly married translator becomes obsessed with why his father's first wife shot herself just after their honeymoon decades earlier, and pulling at the secret unpicks a family built on things everyone has agreed never to say aloud.

I did not want to know but I have since come to know.
A Heart So White, Javier Marias

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