A Heart So White - Panther S. Author:Javier Marķas Translator and interpreter Juan Ranz is a newly-wed in Havana on his honeymoon. As he is looking over the balcony, an unknown girl in the street mistakes him for somebody else, and he overhears a strange conversation in the hotel. From that moment "a feeling of disaster" hovers over his marriage. The key to that uneasiness is in the past: his fa... more »ther married three times to conceive him. Javier Marias has created a hypnotic novel about the convenience of secrecy, about marriage, murder, suspicion, silence, and persuasion. About white hearts (corazones tan blancos) getting darker and darker until they know things they never wanted to know.« less