Your Face Tomorrow
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Grateful acknowledgment is made to Random House, Inc., for permission to reprint from The Selected Poetry of Rainer María Rilke the line from the first “Duino Elegy,” copyright © 1989 by Stephen Mitchell. The Eliot lines are quoted from “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock,” copyright 1917 by T. S. Eliot.
The publication of this book has been assisted with a translation subvention from the Director of Books, Archives, and Libraries of the Cultural Ministry of Spain.
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First published clothbound in 2009 and as a New Directions Paperbook (NDP1206) in 2011.
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The Library of Congress has cataloged the printed edition as follows:
Marías, Javier.
[Tu rostro mañana. English]
Your face tomorrow : fever and spear/Javier Marías; translated from the Spanish by Margaret Jull Costa. p. cm.
I. Costa, Margaret Jull. II. Title.
PQ6663. A7218T8313 2005
863’.64—dc22
2005000992
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