Your Face Tomorrow, Volume Two: Dance and Dream (New Directions Paperbook)

Dance and Dream—the dazzling second volume of Your Face Tomorrow, Javier Marías' unfolding literary spy novel in three parts.

Your Face Tomorrow has been hailed "exquisite" (Publishers Weekly), "gorgeous" (Kirkus), and "outstanding: another work of urgent originality" (London Independent). And now, Dance and Dream takes Javier Marías's daring experiential magnum opus out for a new wild ride. Skillfully constructed around a central mesmerizing scene in a nightclub, a scene of real and perplexing horror, Dance and Dream again features our hero Jacques Deza. But in Volume Two Deza—hired by MI6 as a person of extraordinarily sophisticated powers of perception—discovers the dark side of his new employers. In a disco, Tupra, his spymaster boss, brings out a sword and uses it in a way that appalls Deza, who remonstrates: You can't just go around hurting and killing people like that.

Why not? asks Tupra.