All Souls

Press Reviews

• The Guardianby Aida Edemariam · May 2005

  <p>At 17, Javier Mar&#237;as ran away to Paris, where he wrote his first novel. A second was published while he was still at university. His parallel career as a translator has informed his fiction and, he says, taught him how to write. Regarded as one of Spain's greatest novelists, he is also - thanks to one of his books - the unlikely king of a small Caribbean island.</p>