Los Enamoramientos

Javier Marias Los Enamoramientos  (The Infatuations) 2011 

In his latest novel, Los Enamoramientos, Javier Marias chooses a woman's perspective for the first time. The novel focuses on the blindness of love and how it can lead into a moral dilemma. The protagonist, a woman in her mid thirties, visits a coffee shop on a daily basis. And each day, she notices a couple who seem to be in a perfect relationship full of love. One day she learns from the newspaper, that the man has been murdered.

When she meets the woman again, she condoles with her on the tragic loss. She's invited to the woman's home where she meets a friend of the family who soon becomes her lover. Slowly it is revealed that this man could be connected to the murder. The man states that is was a case of assisted suicide as the dead suffered from disease. It remains unclear if this is the truth or if the protagonist's new lover committed a cold blooded murder due to his romantic interest in the deceased's spouse.
Upon realising the possible connection of her love to the killing, the protagonist distance herself from him, emotionally and physically. Even he tries to explain himself to her they end up seperating. In the aftermath, the suspect finally gains his presumed goal and forms a new couple with the dead's former partner.

Los Enamoramientos has been released originally in 2011. The German version has been released in 2012 as "Die sterblich Verliebten". An English released is planned for 2013 as "The Infatuations."