The Infatuations Michael Ondaatje Janie and her family were

Janie and her family were forced to live out in the open: cold

Full of eye-opening tales and sparkling wit

funny and touching

a mermaid raises her barnacled head from the flat grey sea

Okey Ndibe

The Infatuations Michael Ondaatje Janie and her family wereThe Infatuations is a critically acclaimed novel by the great Spanish writer Javier Maras. Every day, Maria Dolz stops for breakfast at the same caf. And every day she enjoys watching a handsome couple who follow the same routine. Then one day they aren't there, and she feels obscurely bereft. It is only later, when she comes across a newspaper photograph of the man, lying stabbed in the street, his shirt half off, that she discovers who the couple