Diversions make Infatuations a book to fall in love with
This is the starting point for The Infatuations, the latest novel by Javier Marías, the Spanish writer who won an IMPAC award in 1997 for A Heart So White.
The plot of The Infatuations unfolds slowly. Marías, a master at conjuring the strange, idle thoughts that inhabit a person’s daydreams, is in no rush to get to the conclusion of his crime novel, which transplants the hard-boiled world of the great American noir writers for playful European metaphysical thought.
