Los enamoramientos

"The last time I saw Miguel Desvern or Deverne was also the last time his wife, Luisa, saw him, which was strange and perhaps unfair, since she was that, his wife, and I was a stranger instead... ". This is how Los enamoramientos begins, the new novel by Javier Marías, established as one of the best contemporary novelists. María Dolz, the narrator and protagonist, only knew his name "when his photo appeared in the newspaper, stabbed and half shirtless and about to become dead: the last thing he must have realized was that he was stabbed out of confusion and without cause".