What: A woman gets very involved in the lives of two regularly-observed strangers ... after one of them is killed.
Opening lines: "The last time I saw Miguel Desvern or Deverne was also the last time that his wife, Luisa, saw him, which seemed strange, perhaps unfair, given that she was his wife, while I, on the other hand, was a person he had never met, a woman with whom he had never exchanged so much as a single word."
Representative quotes: See Quote from a Fictional Character #15 and Quote from a Fictional Character #70.
How to get it: Buyable, borrowable, Kindle-able. Like much of Javier Marías's work, it has also been translated from the original Spanish into 42 different languages.
Connection to previous Wreckage: The Infatuations showed up on List #35: A Few of the Best Books I Read in 2013.
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