Masterful game of words, passion and tenderness, the harsh reality and dreamlike visions, but always powerful story with a surprising plot and unexpected denouement.

Twelve short stories of the collection When I Was Mortal are offering to the reader the opportunity to peek into the corners of the human mind, to discover the fine and in the same time terrifying threads of crimes and to look at our world "from the other world", when we have the opportunity to see everything differently, completely. Javier Marias is a rigorous stylist, in his texts is the pressure, irony, black humor and very skillfully dosed part of thrill and fear not only from what we don't know but also from what we know by accident.