The Infatuations
by Javier Marias
2013 – 352 pages
rating 8.75 / lit-crime  – Spain

I just didn’t care much for this book at all until the plot got going, about half way through, and then I definitely took to it.  A woman named Maria watches a happy couple,  she leaves on vacation and when she returns the husband has been savagely murdered by a street bum.  The widow is now alone and the woman who watches her imagines how she must feel,  she imagines how the victim felt as he was being stabbed,  she imagines what life will be like.  The book should have been called “The Imaginings.” >>>>MORE>>>>