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Javier Marías: Thus Bad Begins [2016] paperback Condition:Good Birgit Bulla explores the biggestIn Thus Bad Begins, prize winning author Javier Marias examines a household living in the unhappy shadow of history, and explores the cruel, tender punishments we exact on those we love As a young man, Juan de Vere takes a job that will haunt him for the rest of his life. Eduardo Muriel is a famous film director urbane, discreet, irreproachable an irresistible idol to a young man. Muriel's wife Beatriz is a soft, ripe woman who slips through her