Your Face Tomorrow, Volume 1 (Penguin Modern Classics)

'Your Face Tomorrow is already being compared with Proust and rightly so' Observer

'One of contemporary literature's major works ... you have to open this book' Ali Smith

'I am myself my own fever and pain'

JacquesDeza has been told he has a gift: he can see through people; guess justfrom their faces what will become of them. When he encounters theenigmatic Bertram Tupra at a party, Deza is persuaded to join amysterious underground group. His task: to observe an assortment ofpeople - politicians, celebrities, seemingly ordinary citizens - andpredict their next move. But where will Deza's descent into thistwilight world eventually take him? The first part of Javier Marias'masterly trilogy asks how well we truly know and understand those aroundus.

Translated by Margaret Jull Costa

Reviews

An intriguing and audacious experiment