Tomorrow in the Battle Think on Me is a riveting novel of infidelity and a man trapped by a terrible secret.
Marta has only 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 answering 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.
"Stylish, cerebral. . . . Marías is a startling talent. . . . His prose is ambitious, ironic, philosophical, and ultimately compassionate." —The New York Times
"One of the writers who should get the Nobel Prize is Javier Marías." —Orhan Pamuk
“His prose demonstrates an unusual blend of sophistication and accessibility.” —The New Yorker
“Marías is one of the best contemporary writers.” —J. M. Coetzee
"By far Spain's best writer today." —Roberto Bolaño
"A great writer." —Salman Rushdie
"The most subtle and gifted writer in contemporary Spanish literature." —Boston Sunday Globe
"Marías is simply astonishing." —The Times Literary Supplement
“Javier Marías is such an elegant, witty and persuasive writer that it is tempting simply to quote him at length.” —The Scotsman
"Marías uses language like an anatomist uses the scalpel to cut away the layers of the flesh in order to lay bare the innermost secrets of that strangest of species, the human being." —W. G. Sebald
"His prose possesses an exquisite, almost uncanny observation, recreating moments and moods in hypnotic depth." —The Telegraph
“Javier Marías is a novelist with style. . . . His readers enter, through him, a strikingly and disturbingly foreign world.” —Margaret Drabble
"A supreme stylist." —The Times
"Marías writes the kind of old-fashioned speculative prose we associate with Proust and Henry James. . . . But he also deals in violence, historical and personal, and in the movie titles, politicians, and brand-names and underwear we connect with quite a different kind of writer." —The London Review of Books
