While the women are sleeping - Javier Marias

Celebrated as one of the greatest writers of his time, Javier Maras is best known for his spy trilogy,Your Face Tomorrow,which has been compared to Proust and hailed asone of the great modern European novels. In his first short story collection for fifteen years, he brings together tales which span his entire writing career : haunting tales from the very edges of life.

An obscenely fat man obsessed with his much younger lover endlessly videotapes her every move, a ghost is condemned to repeatedly resign from his job, and a man of impeccable refinement meets his doppelganger at a work dinner, resulting in ghoulish life changes for both men.