Very pure heart

My hands are your color, but I am ashamed to carry a heart that is very white. This Shakespearean phrase was quoted as the title of the novel "Very White Heart" by the famous Spanish writer and novelist Javier Marias, the prominent novelist who wrote his first novel "Dumito the Wolf" at the age of seventeen. He has more than twelve novels, and he received the (Critics' Award) for the novel Very White Heart, which he published in 1992. From the beginning of the novel, Marias introduces us to a shocking dramatic atmosphere through the incident of the suicide of the protagonist's aunt, Juan, and his father's wife at the same time, in the bathroom of the house after returning from her honeymoon. The events of the clever novel begin with an enthusiastic sentence spoken by the protagonist: "I didn't want to know, but I knew." Juan seeks to uncover the secrets of the mysterious past of his father's previous marriages, which include two other women besides his mother. The first of them, whose name has not been revealed, but the second is indeed his aunt, his mother's sister. Through this, a new perspective on the family's past, full of the father's plots, deception, and violence, is formed in both a police and philosophical atmosphere; Scenes and events of the novel follow one after the other, between suspense and revealing truths.