Javier Marías - Todas as Almas

Young professor Clare Bayes attracts the attention of many colleagues at a dinner party at Oxford University. Among those who covet her is our unnamed narrator, a Spanish professor desperate to escape the tedium of conversation with an obese economist.

Claire and our narrator will soon explore their mutual fascination in furtive encounters in hotel rooms, far from the watchful eye of Claire's husband. Javier Marías' sixth novel, published in 1989, "All Souls" draws inspiration from the two years the author spent in Oxford as a translation professor.