Those who love the country of books and the provinces of language, as Javier Marais clearly does, will love this book.
Berta Isla by Javier Marias
Thus Bad Begins by Javier Marias
Javier Marais is fond of laying out all the possibilities: of what might have happened in the past, of what might be going on now, not in general, but line-per-line as the story unfolds.