Title: Así empieza lo malo
Description: Madrid, 1980. Juan de Vere, nearly finished with his university degree, takes a job as personal assistant to Eduardo Muriel, an eccentric, once-successful film director. Urbane, discreet, irreproachable, Muriel is an irresistible idol to the young man. But Muriel's voluptuous wife, Beatriz, inhabits their home like an unwanted ghost; and on the periphery of their lives is Dr. Jorge Van Vechten, a family friend implicated in unsavory rumors that Muriel now asks Juan to investigate. As Juan draws closer to the truth, he uncovers only more questions. What is at the root of Muriel's hostility toward his wife? How did Beatriz meet Van Vechten? What happened during the war? Marías leads us deep into the intrigues of these characters, through a daring exploration of rancor, suspicion, loyalty, trust, and the infinitely permeable boundaries between the deceptions perpetrated on us by others and those we inflict upon ourselves.
Subjects: Secretarias, Productores y directores de cinematografía, Married people, Productores y directores, Películas cinematográficas, Fiction, Spanisch, Directores de cine, Matrimonios, Novela, Motion picture producers and directors, Personas casadas, Romance literature, Man-woman relationships, Fiction, family life, Man-woman relationships, fiction, Married people, fiction, Spain, fiction, Fiction, psychological, Spanish literature, history and criticism, Relations entre hommes et femmes, Romans, nouvelles, Couples mariés, Relaciones hombre-mujer, Spanish Novelists, Biography, Translators