Dark Back of Time Author:Javier Marias This brilliantly digressive, constantly surprising, funny book moves seemlessly from virtuoso story telling to intimate autobiography, from the grand movements of history - the battlefields of Somme, Spain under Franco - to the strange and moving patterns of small lives. In doing so, it shows us how everything is linked (or not), and how the wr... more »iter is both a keeper of memories and, himself, destined to be lost in the dark back of time.« less