Tomas Nevinson

Reviews / Votes

A meditation on thought and consciousness, identity and disguise, the gloriously rolling sentences offer the deep pleasures of a brilliant mind apprehending the world in real time * Guardian, '2023 Summer Reads' * This is a spy thriller, but it reads like one transposed into music . . . Marias mesmerises us again and we are swept on by the long, powerful swells of his prose * Guardian * The last word from a master . . . His writing is often thrilling in a way that's distinct from any other author I know . . . once you've been inside Marias' world, to spend too long outside is unbearable * The Sunday Times * How we will miss the late Javier Marias and his unique genre of slow-motion page-turners, blending thrillery plots with long, equivocating sentences . . . [Tomas Nevinson] is full of the complexities, comedy and most of all contradictions that define his work * Guardian, 'Best Translated Novels of 2023' * A writer who loves the propulsiveness of the thriller, the page-turning compulsion that drives a reader through Eric Ambler or John le Carre * Financial Times * Marias demonstrates why so many of his peers believe him to be among the greatest of contemporary novelists * The Herald * The most subtle and gifted writer in contemporary Spanish literature * Boston Globe * A Marias sentence is a place of infinite richness and surprises * Independent * A Spanish literary great . . . His writing is fine and subtle * Le Monde * Javier Marias's writing doesn't resemble anyone else's. It's easy to parody, but impossible to imitate . . . Javier Marias was the best writer in Spain -- Eduardo Mendoza