All Souls

"Set in Oxford, and drenched in the ambience of academic myopia and departmental power politics, [ALL SOULS] recounts in polished Jamesian prose the two-year lectureship enjoyed and endured there by its narrator, a visiting Spanish scholar....There's little plot beyond the (unnamed) narrator's romantic intriguing, but it's a rare civilized pleasure to overhear his incisive analyses of cultural, temperamental, and sexual differences between Britons and Iberians, or to follow his peregrinations through the meaner streets of Oxford (whose beggars elicit a feeling of kinship in this deracinated wanderer) or several antiquarian bookstores, ever in search of the odd and engaging. The novel is as much a record of life at Oxford as it is a narrative....Another stunning work from one of Europe's best young writers."Marías, Javier is the author of 'All Souls' with ISBN 9780811214537 and ISBN 0811214532.