The hero of “Tomás Nevinson” is plucked from retirement for a tough final mission
Marías’s final book revisits characters and themes from his penultimate one,. He saw “Tomás Nevinson” as a “companion piece” to its predecessor—but it is a better novel. The eponymous hero comes fully alive as he navigates shadowy machinations and ethical quandaries.
His mission requires him to go undercover in north-west Spain and find out which of three women is a terrorist with, a Basque separatist group, who is now lying low after taking part in bombings in Barcelona and Zaragoza. Posing as a teacher of English, Tomás embarks on a charm offensive, befriending the women—a fellow schoolteacher, a restaurant owner and a trapped wife—and forging more intimate relations with one of them.
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