Javier Marias is a Spanish novelist. His father was also a writer and was imprisoned for opposing Franco. Marias draws inspiration for his fiction from his family's past and Spain's history. Ghostly witness.
 

"The truth never shines forth, as the saying goes, because the only truth is that which is known to no one and which remains untransmitted, that which is not translated into words or images, that which remains concealed and unverified, which is perhaps why we do recount so much or even everything, to make sure that nothing has ever really happened, not once it's been told."

— Javier Marias, A Heart So White