num_pages: 320
description: "No one ever suspects," begins Tomorrow in the Battle Think On Me, "that they might one day find themselves with a dead woman in their arms.... Marta has just met Victor when she invites him to dinner at her Madrid apartment while her husband is away on business. When her two-year-old son finally falls asleep, Marta and Victor retreat to the bedroom. Undressing, she feels suddenly ill; and in his arms, inexplicably, she dies.What should Victor do? Remove the compromising tape from the phone machine? Leave food for the child, for breakfast? These are just his first steps, but he soon takes matters further; unable to bear the shadows and the unknowing, Victor plunges into dark waters. And Javier Marías, Europe's master of secrets, of what lies reveal and truth may conceal, is on sure ground in this profound, quirky, and marvelous novel. "Brilliantly imagined and hugely intricate," as La Vanguardia noted, "it is a novel one reads with enormous pleasure."
language: English
title: Tomorrow in the Battle Think on Me
titlecomplete: Tomorrow in the Battle Think on Me
characters: Marta
genres: Literary Fiction, Literature, Fiction, Contemporary, Mystery, Spanish Literature, 20th Century, Novels, Spain, Classics
ratings_count: 6766
places: Madrid
awards: awardedAt: 788947200000
name: Premio Internacional de Novela Rómulo Gallegos, awardedAt: 820483200000
name: Prix Femina
category: Étranger, awardedAt: 757411200000
name: Premio Fastenrath, awardedAt: 820483200000
name: Premio San Clemente Rosalía-Abanca
category: Lingua castelá
publisher: Vintage/Ebury (a Division of Random