The 100 best books of 2021

Si buscas libros actuales que devorar, aquí tenemos de todo: ensayo, poesía, cómics, novelas gráficas, libros de humor, novela negra, aventuras, suspense, ciencia-ficción, hasta alguno de terror… Te traemos nuestra recomendación de los mejores libros publicados en este 2021.

Nor will Mariano in the Bidasoa, the last book of the episodes of an endless war that has left Almudena Grandes unfinished.I expected it as May water and what has fallen is a spherry of pain that my heart has left me like a stone.

So we are going to dedicate this space to those transgressive, special, touching books, of those that excite you, have fun or even hurt you while you read them.Of those books that hook you from the first page and that are not forgotten when you close them, but leave a scar of those that bite in rainy days.These are our favorite books of 2021.

Love + hate: Hanif Kureishi stories and essays

Trad.Mario Amadas

Anagram

"My name is Karim Amir and I am an English feet to the head, almost". Esa frase, con la que empieza El buda de los suburbios, fue lo primero que leí del excesivo, irreverente, satírico, subversivo Hanif Kureishi… aunque ya lo conocía por su guión de la inolvidable Mi hermosa lavandería.They have spent a few years and not a few novels and their impetus has stopped, but not their ability to amaze me.Anagram now publishes a collection of essays, autobiographical texts and short stories (one of the formats where he moves best) focused on the relationship between love and hatred.In "Flight 423", with which the book begins, a routine flight is complicated so much that the passengers end up stripping their costumes.Later he will address the relationship with his children, Kafka's with his father, the story of a Pakistani woman who has to return to her country to face her son, and much more.The collection ends with a very didactic story, that of the scam that left him without the savings of his entire life and how his relationship with the scammer aroused intense feelings that include, in addition to the expected hatred and disgust, admiration and love.A book that I have enjoyed a lot, delicious.A great sample of what is capable of doing one of the best figures of British letters.

Abdulrazak Gurnah paradise

Trad.Sofia Noguera Mendia

Salamander

Paradise is both an initiation story about an African child, a tragic love story and a reliable story of the effects of colonialism and the destinations of the refugee in the abyss between cultures and continents.The action takes place during the early twentieth century in East Africa.

Yusuf is a child who leaves his simple and very poor life in rural Africa to face the complexities of the pre -colonial urban Africa, a fascinating world in which African Muslims, Muslim missionaries,Christian missionaries, Indian immigrants in a fragile social hierarchy coexist in a fragile social social hierarchy.Through Yusuf's eyes, Gurnah describes the communities at war, the different communities and religions that live together, the life nomad in a caravan, but that does so from a perspective never before available on that part of the world rarely commented.A wonderful and human Nobel Prize novel of Literature 2021.

The year ofJavier Pérez Andújar buffalo

Anagram

Winner of the last Herralde novel award, the year of buffalo is perhaps one of the rarest novels I have read in my life.And one of the most funny.It forces you to do strange things, such as watching a video of the howbbles to see how poor people of Madrid in the eighties were sheltered or looking for information about the carnation revolution.The novel consists of 60 psychophonies, loose texts, 36 footnotes, epilogue and fountains.A torrent of seemingly crazy ideas but then, when you see their point of view, they have a crushing logic.The relationship between the murder ofCarrero Blanco with the car of Manol they got it.That is just an example of the treasures contained.Written with that lexical wealth and that self -confidence that characterizes prose, full of surprising and successful metaphors, of one of our best writers.What a weird book, in which the footnotes seem like the driving thread of that year of the buffalo of 1973, although there are things that happen before and after.Sometimes I don't know if I learned very well about the protagonist's story, Folke Ingo, wove.I only have to thank the author to share with us that prodigious mind in which I suspect that the most wonderful ideas bullish disorderly.

Mayte López's thermal sensation

Asteroid books

An emotional narration that tells us about the multiple mechanisms of intimate violence, that which is not seen at first sight because it is disguised as love and concern, and then explodes with all its virulence.A violence that stalks in the lyrics of the songs, in children's stories, in television fiction.Lucía, Mexican, who has left behind a violent home to move to a cochambroso apartment in New York.There he meetsJuliana, fromColombia, vital and full of energy and from there arises a deep friendship.Lucia will witnessJuliana's transformation at the hands of an abuser.Thermal sensation speaks of abuse, macho and xenophobes, but also of the refuge of friendship.

Juan Sin Tierra's trips.Integral edition.ByJavier de Isusi

Astiberri

Ha salido este año la tetralogíaJuan Sin Tierra's trips, más de 600 páginas que empezaron hace más de una década, durante el viaje de casi un año que hizo Isusi por Latinoamérica cuando acabó la carrera.It includes the four titles that had been published alone: Marcos's pipe, the island of Neverland,Crazy River and on the land of the landless.It is the story of Vasco, who travels the American continent in search of his friendJuan, missing years ago in Latin American lands.A long journey that will change forever and that takes him from the heart of Zapatismo in Mexico, passing through the island of Ometepe in Nicaragua, to the Ecuadorian and Peruvian Amazon jungle, to end up leading to Brazil.This edition includes, among other extras, two short color stories and a text made for the occasion byClaudio Maringelli, co -author of the trial decolonize the adventure.

An unknown place by Seicho Matsumoto

Trad.Marian Bordles

Asteroid books

Matsumoto is considered one of the pioneers of theJapanese noir of the twentieth century.An unknown place was published in 1972, but somehow, the novel is not fashionable, despite the logical absence of electronic devices.While the novel begins with some slowness, with Asai, the protagonist, laboriously reviewing the clues to try to find out how his wife died.The investigation immediately becomes an obsessive need to know exactly what kind of life his wife had led, very different from what he believed.Absorbed as he was in his business, he now realizes that his wife is, or has been, an unknown.The tone of history changes and accelerates to follow the rhythm of the growing loss of ASAI control.It is a black novel, but it is also a critical work that denounces the rigidity ofJapanese social norms.

Some full tales of Domingo Villar with illustrations byCarlos Boonza

Siruela

Ten stories full of irony and ingenuity, a genre that Villar cultivated years ago as a fun and with which he connected with great names of Galician literature.They are stories of Gallegos who had to march or characters who ended up in Galicia as Eliska, Don Andrés El Guapo, Mabel, Michael "Chico"Cruz ... is a beautiful book, which aims to celebrate life and friendship as in a encounter between friends.The friendly narrative, at very mischievous, always impeccable of Villar is perfectly complemented by the magnificent line spells of the painterCarlos Baonza.Together they achieve a work that is a real delight.Some complete stories will start a smile to the most sieso and the most pessimistic.

Prayer in the siege of Damir Ovčina

Trad.Luisa Fernanda Garrido Ytihomir Pištelek

Editorial automatic

Ovčina has been writing for 20 years (and trying to understand) what he lived as a teenager in his native Sarajevo.In 1992 he went to visit a friend to the Grbavica neighborhood and that night he could no longer return home.The war had exploded and Grbavica had fallen into the hands of the Serbian militias.Ovčina took four years to return home.This book is more than a heartbreaking story about the conflict of the Balkans, it makes us place in the skin of those who lived a situation as horrible as absurd and helps us to reconsider how nationalisms, of any kind, are the fuse that makes itlight hatred and intolerance.But it also is a very well written book, of agile reading.The author often omits the verb, and his prose, far from being hit or indecipherable, is alive, very alive.At times even poetic.Without a doubt Ovčina is a reference for the new 21st century worldwide literature.

Fernando Fernán Gómez's book

Helena Hoyos andJorgeCascante edition

Blackie Books

Otra joya de la editorial, como sus maravillosos Libro de Gloria Fuertes y el Libro de Gloria Fuertes para niños y niñas.in which you mix interviews with the multifaceted artist with extracts from their works, photographs, memories, graphic documents, scripts.A huge chapter for the figure of his partner and, like Fernán Gómez himself, also a writer and actress. Sin desmerecer a otra gran biografía, o mejor dicho autobiografía, o mejor dicho, las memorias del simpar artista, El tiempo amarillo, publicado este año porCapitan Swing en una edición de lujo (aunque con la letra un poco pequeña para una cegata como yo; si ese es tu problema, te recomiendo la versión electrónica).How great Fernán Gómez and what a couple of pieces of books about him that have been published this year.

Selene and the four elements of Lucia Etxebarria

Perravid

A black novel that has a lot of puzzle, even chess departure.They give you the pieces, the characters, and then the clues to each other.As you read you are rebuilding the story, behind a disappearance that the police do not consider "risk": there is women's trafficking, drug trafficking, disappearances.The protagonist of the novel, Selene, is influencer and shows in networks a reality very different from the one who lives.Etxebarria portrays recent episodes of Spanish and Argentina, and I believe that NatachaJaitt's case inspired her to investigate the dirty business of women's trafficking in Argentina using the Efedrina route.It is a fiction novel, tremendously addictive, which unfortunately shows a very real world.Etxebarria weaves a complex plot, using with genius and skill all the resources of classic suspense to offer us an addictive novel that devours from the first page, in which the author also denounces the abuse against women and the falsehood of social networks.

Donal Ryan's only certainty

Trad.AnaCrespo

Sajalín Editores

Ryan had already captivated myself with my rotating heart and a year in the life ofJohnseyCunliffe, and his vision, tragic and poetic, of contemporary rural Ireland, but in the only certainty it has gone further, he has enchanted me.We follow the pregnancy of the lonely Melody Shee week after confessing to Pat, her husband that the waiting son is not his.But he is not a saint either.Suicide seems the only way out for Melody, but an unexpectedly a young Traveller appears and from there a friendship arises.Travellers are nomads living in caravans and whose children are not usually schooled.In Spain there is nothing the same, especially since schooling is mandatory, but if you have seen pigs and diamonds, by Guy Ritchie, a Traveller is the character embodied by Brad Pitt.Apart from creating an absorbent and interesting plot, Ryan writes with an exquisite prose.It combines social criticism with intimacy and tenderness.

Darío Adanti's tattooed whale

Astiberri

El genial ilustrador, showman, pensador e historietista explica en este álbum –en el que, como si fueraJames Rhodes, incluye una banda sonora fantástica, con mucha música irlandesa– cómo Magallanes y Elcano se embarcaron en 1519 en una viaje a las Indias que acabó siendo la primera vuelta al mundo.260 people came out and 18 people returned, who lived an authentic hell in an expedition for which they were not even prepared.All the characters that appear in the book existed in reality, except, Miguel, the tattooed whale, direct influence of Melville, which represents all the horrors of the sea.It also represents the struggle of man (and woman) against their own ghosts: their obsessions, their insecurities and its limitations.A work that starts from a first 24 -page comics published in 1996 byCamaleón that has become an album of almost 200 pages divided into five books and an epilogue.Adanti combines with scientific rigor historical facts and popular legends;recreates maps, dialogues and develops a non -existent popular songbook of ballads of characters and real events that should have their song but do not have it.A wonder of album, aesthetically of a friendlier graphics, less faithful but equally shocking, than other works in which a more aggressive and expressionist graphic language reflects.

Shuggie Bain History of Douglas Stuart

Trad.Francisco González López

Sixth floor

Undoubtedly, Douglas Stuart has written one of the books of the year, an incisive, gloomy and emotionally heartbreaking portrait of a dysfunctional family and the Glasgow community, which suffers agonized pain and despair of the Thatcher era in the 1980s.There are women who have not had it easy in life.One of them is Agnes Bain, abandoned by her husband with a lot of children.It is the love song of one of them to the mother who tries to maintain her dignity amid desolation and poverty.An extraordinary and moving story, hard and free of sentimentalisms, very well written.A round work that with which Stuart won the prestigious Booker 2020 award.

In the house of dreams ofCarmen María Machado

Trad.Laura Salas Rodríguez

Anagram

Machado already conquered me with his body and other parties, a series of stories in which, with surprising ease and a certain sense of disturbing humor, he tells universal stories of women who have suffered aggressions in his body.Now comes with an autobiographical history of a toxic relationship.Abuse does not come from a heterosexual male of patriarchal and macho mentality, but to a lesbian.Machado uses his experience to explore more thoroughly the issue of violence in the couple within the homosexual community, and does so by combining different narrative genres - the romantic novel, erotic, initiation, terror, that of terror...The house of dreams is a sample of the immense talent of Machado, which mixes with alchemist's precision his personal experience with research and uses a clear, sincere, transparent prose.

Concha alós dwarves

The Swiss razor

The action seems to take place at the beginning of postwar.Bades badly ventilated in a pension where the desperate ones, the losers, the dwarves of which the giants laugh, as Maria says, the only character who speaks in the first and second person, through a newspaper in which he is directedto his absent love.Shows a world of unhappy people who take advantage of the strongest.It seems the forty year and yet the action takes place in 1961, when the man had already stepped on the moon, but even in the most cosmopolitan city in Spain, inculture and injustice was endemic.Alós won the Planet Award in 1962, but he had to give up him for signing an agreement with another editorial. The Swiss razor ha recuperado esta maravilla de novela en una edición preciosa.

MIEKO KAWAKAMI BREEK AND EGGS

Trad.Lourdes Porta

Seix Barral

A brief novel that combines realism and comedy about the relationship between three generations ofJapanese women, obsessed with their body and that of others.They are joined by a love that they do not demonstrate as well as, according to the concept of femininity and modesty that they have taught them.The body is the way they are socially defined, which gives them their identity;Everything revolves around the body.Sponsored by Haruki Murakami and Elena Ferrante, Miel Kawakami achieves a curious and fascinating portrait of contemporaryJapanese woman.A human book, deep, moving and fun, that fills all the reader's expectations.

Trad.Carlos Fortea, Roberto Bravo de la Varga and Tiana Puig I Soler

Cliff

A case with two volumes that brings together all the biographies of Stefan Zweig, not only those dedicated to distinguished characters in history such as Rotterdam, Fernando de Magallanes, María Estuardo, María Antonieta,Joseph Fouché, Honoré de Balzac and Marceline Exbordes-Valore, but also those that portray some outstanding contemporaries and friends of the author, such as Émile Verhaeren and Romain Rolland.

His biographies are probably the ones that show the best of the writer's skill for the portrait, his psychological acuity and the deep understanding of the human soul.The meeting of these works offers the reader five centuries of history in the West through some of its conspicuous protagonists, in addition to an incomparable key to understand the very unique perspective of one of the most sagacious and sensitive observers of the twentieth century.

Tomás Nevinson byJavier Marías

Alfaguara

The second part of Berta Isla and, for me, is even better.Of course I am unconditional of Marias, but I am because I love what he writes and how he writes it.The novel has very solidly defined its conductive thread that intrigues from the beginning.And then there is that precision for the correct word and that spiral thinking mechanism so characteristic of its prose: Marías takes and retakes the same idea, corrects it, clarifies it, returns to it later, expands it and thus, as whoever peels aonion, the information is broken down.On this occasion, the plot develops chronologically just after Berta Isla, in the late 90s.Tomas Nevinson is Berta's absent husband, an Anglo -Spanish who worked at the service of the British MI6 or Mi5.Already retired, secret services call him again for a mission within Spain.Marías reviews the story of ETA and anger in its most violent years, are the backdrop of a novel, but also an excuse to consider a moral dilemma.Highly recommended.We were many who were sure that Marías would win this year the Nobel Prize for Literature.Although, I have to say that Abdulrazak Gurnah also supposed a pleasant surprise, a very deserved prize, only that Marias fans have been making illusions for years.

Essential poetry of MirceaCărtărescu

Trad.Marian Ochoa de Eribe

Impedimenta

A spectacular selection of poems selected by the author himself reflecting the first creative years of a writer whose legacy does nothing but increase.A bilingual edition with an introduction of the translator and ETA Hrubaru that prepares us for what we are going to read.Cărtărescu is a member of the select group of rebel writers known as "the generation of BlueJeans", for which poetry means a special way of seeing things: everything is poetry, an insect, a bridge or a mathematical equation;a phrase from Plato or a principle of biology;A smile or a kōan of Zen Buddhism.

BibianaCandia Azucre

Editorial Pepitas

A heartbreaking novel based on a real event that should not be forgotten, the slavery suffered by the many young Galicians who emigrated toCuba in 1853 deceived with false dreams of prosperity.A simple prose, with different voices, that of those boys who face a terrible destination without more weapons than their illusion and naivety.The story is fiction, but the facts that are very real and the author documes them at the end of the novel.A true horror, a brave, brilliant and disturbing proposal, and a real literary jewel.

So far we have arrived from Antonio Fontana

Siruela

Fontana takes us to a residence of elders very different from the place where the protagonists of Richard Osman's books live.In Fontana the days follow each other and only the occasional visit breaks the monotony.However, the grim.With a lot of black humor, Fontana transforms a macabre approach into ingenious amusement.Very well written, deliciously acidic, hooks from the first page.The work is the Gijón 2020Café.

The Helene Flood community

Trad.José Arconada and Inger-Lise Ostrem

Planet

A psychological thriller of the good, of which you cannot stop reading, with few characters, well chosen and very credible.While reading it, I thought, with so few people around here, I will guess who is the murderer before the end.Well no.There are unexpected last minute turns that surprise and deceive the most hornet of genre lovers.Even so, the strength of the novel is not.It is a suspense novel, but also an inner trip.He has the best of two worlds, combines poetic reflection with the harsh reality and does so with incredible ease, in a precise and successful prose, lacking floritures and common places.

From Martin Amis

Trad.Jesús Zulaika

Anagram

Amis makes us his guest of honor.He receives us at home and opens his heart.Literally.He tells us about his experiences, of his famous and terrible father, his family, his writer friends, his enemies, his past experiences, his future desires.An intense, exciting book, written with that pen that with unusual ease of the comic and the dramatic, using that rich and precise prose, wonderfully translated by Zulaika.Probably the peak work of one of the best contemporary writers of English literature, a jewel for all their fans and a good output springboard for those who have not read or fields in London, money or any of their wonderful works.

Atlas of the great travelers and explorers of Isabel Minhós Martins and Bernardo P.Carvalho

Trad.JoanaCarro

Fulgencio Pimentel

La autora Isabel Minhós y el ilustrador y también autor BernardoCarvalho son los artífices de un recorrido por la Tierra de la mano de 13 grandes viajeros y exploradores –aventureros en busca de fortuna, frailes con una misión, mujeres valientes, jóvenes soñadores– que dejaron la seguridad de sus hogares (o de sus monasterios) y se liaron la manta a la cabeza para descubrir tierras ignotas.A very beautiful book, with many maps, data, curiosities and adventures.Not everything was pink in these expeditions that seem like a fiction story but were very real.The edition is precious, like everything Fulgencio Pimentel does, a gift for sight and intellect.

David Sedaris Sunday dress

Trad.Toni Hill

Blackie Books

Si aún ya has leído Calypso, reíste (y te emocionaste) con ese libro, ya sabes de qué va su prosa y estoy segura de que te comprarás el libro sin más.If not, you now have the opportunity to read a selection of your best stories that show us that laughter is the best antidote for poison and the best response to the absurd and unexpected of life.Humor?Well, Sedaris wants me to laugh, and she gets it.But what tells you, what he has lived, has no grace.As my grandmother said to any adversity, "less bad than we laugh".The sense of humor is the weapon to take refuge when life gives you a grenade, and that knows it, and describes it, like no one David Sedaris.

THE WINDSOR OF S.J.Bennet

Trad.Patricia

Salamander

La reina Isabel II como detective es, desde luego, única, o al menos lo es su versión ficticia, creada porBennet.A book for every lover of British culture, and even more so if you are also a lover of mysteries to solve in the starting plan ofCluedo. La intriga por descubrir qué ha sucedido se mezcla con las anécdotas palaciegas, la ocupada agenda de la reina y las noticias en torno a la sociedad, cultura y política británica…Bennet demuestra un dominio de la narración y de la construcción de personajes, El nudo de Windsor es una novela muydivertida, impecablemente escrita, llena de observaciones culturales interesantes donde muestra sus grandes dosis de ingenio. En la web deBennet hay además un mapa interactivo de Windsor y una curiosa galería de fotos.

Dead Romeo of Santiago Sequeiros

Salamander Graphic

Yo he tenido que esperar 25 años para disfrutar de esta obra, como ya le conté a Sequeiros cuando conversé con él, pero la espera ha merecido la pena.Dead Romeo is a huge jewel, 275 x 373 mm, which is very close to Din A3 in which the author works.What a beautiful book, so heartbreaking, so impressive.Romeo resollo is an alcoholized janter that lives in a sepulcher of alcohol and that, captive of his evil, seems more uneven body than the figure of a living man.Santiago Sequeiros has taken 25 years to make his expected album.It is easy to get lost in the bad penalty, the expressionist, decadent and lustful city, purgatory and rotter crossing, which is the scene of all the author's obsessions.Dead Romeo is a cyclical book that begins in the guards and has no end, or I do not find it.The album is completed with a tarot drawn by drying, in the same red, black and white that reach your heart and they leave it.Because Sequeiros is a monster, and this album, the culmination of its obsessions and fears, a beautiful monstrosity.Poetry and excesses shake hands in an unclassifiable work, metaphor of the lived and the imagined universe of genius dry.

First person from Haruki Murakami's singular

Trad.Juan Francisco González Sánchez

Tusquets

Adolescence loves evoked with serene nostalgia, jazz reviews on impossible records, a baseball -loving poet, a speaker ape who works as a masseuse and an old man who talks about the circle with several centers ... the characters and scenes of this very expected volume of storiesThey make the boundaries between imagination and the real world jump through the air.Something to which we are used to Murakami fans, to that real real world, half fiction with autobiographical dyes.A delight for Murakami lovers and, for those who have not read anything by the author, a good way to enter their universe.

Slave ship.Treats the Atlantic of Marcus Rediker

Trad.Esther Pérez and Alex Borucki

Captain Swing

Marcus Rediker considers the 18th -century sailors and pirates as the precursors of modern anti -capitalist movements.After thirty years of research in maritime archives, judicial records, newspapers and first -hand stories, Rediker, sheds light on the darkest corners of the British and American slave ships of the 18th century, an essential instrument of the greatest forced migration in history andOne of the keys to the origins and growth of global capitalism.The author reconstructs with chilling detail the world of "floating prisons" the link lost in the American slavery chain.

Pablo Kurt's Filmaffinity Guide and Daniel Nicolás

Daniel Andreas and Miguel Verdú edition

Nordic books

The Filmaffinity guide is a tour of the history of cinema since its inception.In its more than 400 pages hundreds of films are analyzed and hundreds of frames are shown.A rigorous, enjoyable and didactic guide that the Filmaffinity website to celebrate its twenty years of journey being one of the film referents that we all go before watching a movie.

Elvolumen includes dozens of photograms and movie posters, it is not only a cinematography fourth and fourth summary, from its beginnings to the present, but also an precise and rigorous analysis of the evolution of the ninth art.Con textos de Daniel Andreas, Gorka Bilbao, Ernesto del Río, Luis Eguiraun, Albert Elduque, Andrea Franco,Jorge Oter y Miguel Verdú.

All the hatred I had inside Servando Rocha

La Felguera

The story of Dum Dum Pachecho, youth criminal, legionary and member of the Black Band, which becomes one of the most famous boxers, and also dangerous of postger until the arrival of democracy.At the beginning of the detail, Pacheco almost or appears.Rocha puts us in context, the street bands, what others tell of him.For his darkest Madrid story, real estate speculation and miserable neighborhoods of emigrants, where small -mounted criminals abound, but Nazi refugees also appear who found leftist magazines, Pop -love phalangists and mercenaries who open temples of the movement, RochaHe supports a good literature, but also in the testimonies of several protagonists, including Pacheco himself.

Where are you, Beautiful World by Sally Rooney

Trad.Inga Pellisa

Lit.Random House

Rooney is undoubtedly one of the most outstanding literary voices of his generation.Como antes en Gente normal y en Conversaciones entre amigos, Dónde estás bello mundo trata de los problemas y aborda el día a día de unos personajes que buscan su lugar en la Irlanda del siglo XXI.The author mixes everyday life with existential anguish, and offers us very little optimistic visions, the descriptions of the deep disappointment of the failure of expectations.Relationships are a bit erratic, insecurity campaates to their wide, and the general feeling is that of frustration.Under the apparent simplicity of his writing there is a sophisticated machinery that prevails to keep reading, puts you in the skin of those characters for which the future is an enigma in which they cannot put too many hope.A novel in which nothing seems to happen, but everything happens.A mirror that reflects the current millennial society.

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Over paula Hawkins

Trad.Aleix Montoto

Planet

The plot of this thriller, of the author who triumphed with the girl's girl, is very well -warmed, is a puzzle in which in the end all blocks, but the crime is nothing more than an excuse - a addictive excuse - for a novelVery human, of solid and coherent characters, very successful, whose personal history is captivating.Hawkins play with you as the cat with the mouse: in a novel with so few characters that you think you are going to guess without problem who is the murderer and, at least in my case, I was wrong.But in addition to the game is the pleasure of putting you in the minds of those characters, all tormented, all rebels with cause by a trauma, each of theirs. Hawkins investiga y nos hace poner en la piel de los que sufren, y al hacerlo, nos abre los ojos a una pregunta, ¿hasta dónde llegarías tú para aliviar un profundo dolor? Hace unos meses entrevistamos a Paula Hawkins, una escritora que desde luego da la talla.

Paradais de Fernanda Melchor

LiteraturaRandom House

Paradais is anything but paradise.It is a claustrophobic place, a luxury urb.Two characters crossed by the most cruel and violent masculinity, obsessed with sex and violence.Melchor writes about Mexican society - especially the gap between wealth and poverty and about the violence of the bands - but it would be too easy to read the text as a strict social criticism, because Polo and Franco have a certain degree of decision -making power,And they use it in the worst possible way.While Franco seems fatalistic and perhaps even suicide, Polo denies all responsibility for his actions and always blames others.They have the naivety of adolescents who are, but the potential of violence of hardened criminals, and it is not clear to what extent the mist of alcohol and their inexperience contribute to the fact that they do not adequately understand their own acts.

A novel whose language fascinates by the force of hate that breathes.His reading is disturbing, and Melchor, relentless.It brings us black characters of great violence to observe her and bother us.It is not a book for everyone.Hard, black, very black.

The blue book by Manon Steffan Ros

Trad.Sara Borda Green

Seix Barral

Ros advances to the most dire omens of the Austrian government and presents the life of a single -parent family, after the great blackout.There are two narrative voices: Rowena, the young mother who survives with hunting and collection and that of Zion, her son, only 6 years old when the disaster that erased the rest of the humans from the face of the earth occurred.The novel is the blue book in which mother and son write, without looking at what the other has written.

A tender and hard story that tells us about overcoming.Ros explores the human ability to find new strength to survive, and in doing so, he questions the structures and norms of the contemporary world.With a clear, simple language, force comes from the delicacy with which Ros tells events, and an end that leaves you thinking ... if we are not in time to do something for the planet and humanity.A powerful and emotional novel, compulsive reading, but impregnated with a deep lyricism.

Chris Offutt's death hills

Trad.Javier Lucini

Sajalín Mick Hardin, war veteran and army's criminal investigation agent, returns permission to his native Kentucky.It won't be a pleasant visit.His wife is about to give birth and his sister, Sheriff delCounty, needs his investigator skills to solve a crime.It is surprising that this time offutt dares with a black novel set, yes, in the valleys and hills of Kentucky that we know so well thanks to his previous books: Kentucky dry, closed night and far from the forest.The argument is climbing, and the short chapters, well trained.

The hills of death "resembles a high quality television police series set in rural America as Mare of Easttown, Sharp Objects or True Detective than to a literary fiction work". No lo digo yo, sino la gran JoyceCarol Oates en la crítica que publicó en The New York Times.Highly recommended.

RachelCusk's second house

Trad.Catalina Martínez Muñoz

Asteroid books

DivinaCusk that always brings us intimate psychodramas disguised as social comedy.On that occasion the author reinterprets a book that fascinated her when she read it will do a couple of years, Lorenzo in Taos de Mabel Luhan. La autora narra, en forma de carta a RobinsonJeffers, la estancia de DH Lawrence en su casa de Taos.Cusk, siempre en segunda persona, en un relato dirigido aJeffers, narra la historia de una mujer que está en continuo conflicto con ella misma.Like Luhan, he invites a plastic artist to his second home they have on the property.A beautiful place, next to La Marisma, which will be the scenario of deep and disturbing moments.Second house is the powerful evocation to the lacerating pain of emotional wounds, the title refers to that second house in which the guest artist lives, but also to that second place (Second Place is the original title that can mean "second house"but also "second place") to which those who have displaced in affections and attention are relegated.

Encrucijadas deJonathan Franzen

Trad.Eugenia Vázquez

Salamander

A choral novel, in the purest American style, in which nobody is what it seems and everyone hides something.Set in the sixties, it tells the story of the Hildebrandt, a family in the west for a period of deep moral and personal crisis.Everyone wants to escape an suffocating situation.Franzen investigates in the miseries and chimeras of American society and does so with a sense of humor not exempt from a critical and complicating look at the same time.A novel of almost 700 pages in which the reader is caught in the universe of a demential family and at the same time, of the most normal.Normal in the sense of usual.It is one of the many families whose correction facade cracks to the first shake.Franzen delves into issues such as marital infidelity, betrayal, loss of faith, drugs, and social commitment, love and heartbreak.It is the first novel of a trilogy that will undoubtedly give much to talk.

Hermanito -Miñán– by Ibrahima Balde and Amets Arzallus Antia

Blackie Books

Arzallus uses a very direct, simple language, without flourishes, to narrate in the first person the story of Ibrahima Balde).Hermanito tells a story that, because of his hardness, is better accommodated to that direct language, and yet, very poetic.Ibrahima is a man who doesn't want to migrate.He does it only to go in search of his brother (a goal of great nobility but demential from beginning to end).There is exploitation of immigrants in the Maghreb Strip.Everyone works for months for misery to pay the traffickers the next section of the tour.In Libya is directly slavery.They retain them until their families send money to pay their freedom or directly sell them as slaves.The end is that of most of those who cross.Of those who succeed, of those who do not die in the attempt, but they are touched forever by the misery and the traumas of the trip.

Anne Hébert's hostera.

Trad.Luisa Lucuix Venegas

Impedimenta

Two 15 and 17 -year -old girls disappear on August 31, 1936 in a small Quebequense village.They strive, nobody see them again.The horses have some police novel, but above all it is a puzzle or an onion in which we are taking layers until the truth will be found.We have the testimony of five people about what has happened.The shadow of the tragedy stalks from the beginning, however one of the things that drives the reader is the possibility that there is an unreliable narrative.

One of the most shocking characteristics of the novel is language, which is a kind of dream poetry that fills the senses and immerses you in all that fury and torment, in that brave and unfathomable sea in which that wind blows that whips to theneurons.The final note, the last sentence, leaves you speechless.This book is disturbing, disturbing, disconcerting and cruel, and even so, extremely lyrical, beautiful, captivating.

Lo que quiero decir deJoan Didion

Trad.JavierCalvo

LiteraturaRandom HouseRecopilación de textos deJoan Didion, un referente del periodismo y la literatura norteamericanas del final del siglo XX.For its pages we find Mapplethorpe, the then young and beautiful Nancy Reagan, a group of veterans of the 101 airborne who meet in Las Vegas, the greatness of Hemingway as a writer and Didion's doubts about her own ability to narrate.

I read it with some prevention after my partner told me: "Don't waste time.Journalism?I have not found in the book or a prostitute, or a Yonqui, or a bad corrupt police.There is nothing more than vagueness and life lessons learned at the wrong time ".I had only read a scrambled river, and I liked it, so I ignored its warning.What I mean has fascinated me.This woman knows how to write, her sensitivity and precision made her a key figure of new journalism.

For fans of his novels, aspiring journalists (you will disappoint you when the time comes) and more subtle spirits than my partner.But, young writers, forget about $ 1700 per story (the equivalent of 18.000 euros today, that I have looked for it) that Saturday Evening Post offered him in 1964.Currently knowing how to join words is less than the churros of the previous day.

The premiums of Aurora Venturini

Tusquets

A true discovery, I hope that Tusquets publishes the entire work of Venturini.The novel is narrated in the first person by Yuna, a young woman with cognitive problems who is actually a brilliant and sensitive person.Yuna tells the events that happen to her and her unfortunate family with a mixture of candor and crudeness that put the tips on the end.His is a family of unfortunate women and absent or despicable men. Mariana Enríquez en su prólogo sitúa la acción en la ciudad de La Plata en la década de los cuarenta, yo sospecho que por las referencias musicales y el agobiante catolicismo que todo lo impregna, pero una alusión al fantasma deJorge Luis Borges y a su muerte en Suiza da que pensar que tal vez la época sea posterior.

The premiums are full of tragic events and unsuspected twists, described by a distant voice that, despite its occasional bad drool, inspires a lot of tenderness.There is tenderness and anger, there is nostalgia and cruelty, everything covers.The rhythm hit with which the narrator tells everything (sometimes it is a bit between trainspotting and the guardian between rye) and his prose without commas or just a score with which Venturini skip all literary conventions makes everything more thrilling,more exciting, more direct.Really wonderful work, a mouth on a half face, you cover your eyes, but leave two slits between your fingers to keep reading.

La ciudad violenta deJordiCorominas

Peninsula

When this book fell into my hands I thought it would be the typical anthology of crimes and somewhat novel attacks that unleashed my most yellow side, but I know that it is pure sensationalism and morbidity and, most of the time, not highly recommended.Huy, what's up.This book is much more.The prologue of my admired Ignacio Martínez de Pisón already gave me the clue that I was facing a volume and back trial, perfectly documented, as exciting as it was dispassionate is the prose ofCorominas.The author Hilvana political events and social revolts with isolated murders and all kinds of bloody events.He does it with the rigor of an academic but with the ease of the writer's job: he creates suspense with each new character that comes into action.It covers from the true rebirth of Barcelona that occurred in 1854 when the walls were demolished, to the last events around the procès, through the gunshot, the burning of factories, and several murders, racist, xenophobes, contribute.In order to understand today's society,Corominas invites us to know the past, because the causes of everything that happens today are written in the history of the city.

Dear children of David Trueba

Anagram

A novel around the trip around Spain in the election campaign of Amelia Tomás, candidate for the presidency of a more reactionary match than conservative.Something like the tour of a rock band but with politicians.I was very lazy to start this novel because I hate everything that has to do with mandamases and electoral campaigns, even if they are treated in fiction and humorous.But as I am a Trueba fan, I armed myself with value and got into the mess.I do not lie if I say that the second page was already delighted.It is a masterful novel and a stylistic exercise, since it is narrated in the second person;The journalist who makes the speeches to the eligible Amelia Tomás, who tells the story not to the reader, but the Amelia herself is Basilio.It is a very funny, agile and hilarious novel.That is written in humor (acid) does not take away to be tremendously critical of a political class that to do your job is not based on the service of citizenship, but on personal ambition, the flagrant lie, and the widespread deception.

André Lorant Budapest parrot

Trad.Alfonso Martínez Galilea

Fulgencio Pimentel

A novel with the one suffered and enjoyed and, above all, I have learned more from life and myself.André Lorant, academic and refugee writer in France since 1957, returns, in person and for the memory of the Budapest of his first decades of life.This book is an attempt to recompose their memories, to order through writing the history of a tiny life that was trapped by the frightening forces that ruined the Europe of interwar.

Born in 1930 in a wealthy Jewish family converted toChristianity some generations behind, Lorant finds that there is no place for him in the reactionary hungary of the Horty Regent.The thing does not improve, much less, when the Philonazi Szálasie takes power with the help of the German army and the mass deportation of the Jews of Hungary is accelerated.And, of course, his status as a bourgeois intellectual does not find a help when the Soviet army conquers Budapest, or during the subsequent communist regime.

Budapest's parrot allows us to appear at some experiences that on the one hand move and on the other they serve as a warning for the future (the mother, who hires a speech therapist so that her pronunciation does not give her ethnic origin; the incredible blindness of the JewsAustrians who believed to be safe from the Nazis taking refuge in Budapest; the enormous meanness of some when things get ugly; the incredible generosity of others in the same circumstances).

The superhuman force secret of Alison Bechdel

Trad.Rocío de la Maya

Reservoir books

Bechdel became known in Spain with Fun Home.A tragicomic family, a graphic novel in which he told how he realized that he was a lesbian and the relationship with his father and death. En El secreto de la fuerza sobrehumana (Reservoir books), narrala historia de su vida, una confesión o unas memorias, no de lo que hizo, sino de lo que buscó desde muy joven.He mentions, as in passing, the events - some terrible - that mark his character.Her eternal search for transcendence, which she achieves, in some way, with loneliness, with reading, with the work on piecework and with the passion unleashed by sports and physical activity.He tries everything thorough.It evokes the figure of Margaret Fuller, journalist and activist of the nineteenth century who participated in the foundation of philosophical transcendentalism.One of the objectives of his life is to achieve some kind of balance, and yet everything that most of the time is obsessing with herself: with her work, her relationships, her intellectual commitments, her body, all thisIt has a certain fun and cold reserve.He looks at herself, but helps us understand our own lives, our own impulses, our own work and our relationships, and our contradictions.Marvelous.

Castelao things

Trad.Domingo Villar and Luis Solana

Asteroid books

La singularidad de la Galicia de principios del siglo XX queda plasmada con humor y extrema sensibilidad en los cuentos ilustrados del político, escritor y dibujante Alfonso Daniel RodríguezCastelao, que ahora recoge Asteroid books en un volumen único.They are scenes in which the author portrays the best and the worst of the human being, the traditions of his land, the legends and the anecdotes rooted in the popular imaginary.His characters are always the most disadvantaged: sailors, peasants, elders and orphans.Some of his brief stories are heartbreaking such as Marquesiña or Migueliño, others slightly humorous such as El Son de Rosendo.All, with the clear, simple and affectionate prose ofCastelo, are a tender and clean look on a very hard time, of misery and emigration.

Huaco portrait of Gabriela Weiner

Lit.Random House

I appear that this novel has not been easy for Weiner.The Peruvian writer escapes in her family history and mix reality and fiction to reflect on decolonization, racism and identity.He tells the story of his great -great grandfather,Charles Wiener, an Austrian Jewish explorer that the family felt very proud, but whose behavior had nothing admirable.It plundered almost 4.5000 works of pre -Columbian art and kidnap a Peruvian child to teach it in Europe as if it were an exotic animal.The author, 150 years later, part of the demolition of the family patriarch to explore the still open wounds: a historical and colonial, and another intimate, but, unfortunately, not individual.Demystifies colonization and denounces indiscriminate looting in the name of exploration for scientific purposes.

Nadie conoce a contra nadie deJuan Bonilla

Seix Barral

I had never heard of a literary remake, but that is exactly what Bonilla does, Jerez has once again written the novel he published in 1996 and assured his future as a writer, nobody knows anyone.Why would someone do something like that?Well, as the author himself explains in the epilogue, he was not too happy with the final result of his first novel.No one knows anyone almost famous thanks to Mateo Gil's film adaptation that premiered in 1999.There was a lot.A mystery that, more than twenty years later, is still alive.No one knows very well what happened to cause the frightened general of the people who followed the processions.Well, the fact is that Bonilla has once again written the book and has remained of pearls: he continues with his part of thriller and suspense, but with those literary references and reflections on fiction and life so his and that I figure that so manyenemies have caused him between the flower and cream Hispanic.

StephenCrane's immortal flame of Paul Auster

Trad.Benito Gómez Ibáñez

I'm going to be sincere, I've only read the first half.I have all the intention of continuing at some point, when I had the opportunity to read some work by StephenCrane.The immortal flame of StephenCrane is a biographical and literary tour of the figure of the journalist and writer and adventurer during the years in which the United States ceased to be the country of the wild west to become the America of Rockefeller, of the glamorous industry of the industry of theCinema and First World Power.No one as Paul Auster to tell his adventures and give life to a unique and unrepeatable character.

Far from Egypt from André Aciman

Trad.Celia Filipetto

Asteroid books

Some hilarious family memories in which the author remembers his childhood in the multicultural and wonderful Alexandria.Aciman narrates with great sense of humor and some nostalgia the adventures of a family that has nothing to envy to that of the Durrell, only that instead of British they are Sephardic Jews.Generations from Turkey and Italy that ended in Egypt at the beginning of the century and lived there until their expulsion in the sixties, when he was a teenager.Round and so successful characters that can only be inspired by real people, such as Uncle Vili, former fanfare, Italian fascist and British spy;the two grandmothers, "the saint" and "the princess", capable of gossiping in six languages, including the Ladino;the mother, Gigi, a deaf woman to take;or aunt Flora, German refugee who does not cease to remember that the Jews will lose as much as they have "at least twice in life".An evocative and wonderful text, a story of discounts and disagreements, love affairs and idilies, friendships, successes and failures, precipitated escapes and all the aroma and taste of that splendid place that was Alexandria.

What is your sigrid nunez torment

Trad.MercedesCebrián

Anagram

A novel that is actually a book of stories, or a book of stories that reads like a novel.The narrator and protagonist are going to visit her friend sick of cancer;That is the conductive thread ... But there are many more stories, from the universe that surrounds the two friends, of acquaintances and family, even that of a cat that speaks in the first person!They are all stories in the passage of time, pain and repentance.The destiny of the sick friend will launch a series of events such that lead the author to question the meaning of death and, above all, that of life.A shocking, intense and unconventional novel, of clean and unpretentious prose.A delight.

Albert Pijuan's great wave

Trad.Rubén Martín Giráldez

Sixth floor

This novel frightened me and attracted me in equal parts.I could not stop reading it, despite how repulsive the protagonists are and how decading the whole environment is, in the three periods in which the plot develops.It costs a lot not to be trapped by the rhythm and by that torrent of words, agile and fresh, which it uses with ease pijoan, but that would be more attractive if it had put some point more than the points apart from the end of the chapter.

Everything in the great wave is excessive, excessive, it is the author of the author to achieve a cartoon portrait of those who are born with everything but nothing interests them: arrogant, superficial, petty and ruins.It is also a cry of condemnation of predatory tourism, the one that does not respect anything or anyone, which razes countries and continents and only leaves money from tourist promoters money.A different book, which is somehow an exercise of style, for the different narrative voices, the curious structure, the painful lack of paragraphs and the restlessness that causes.

Agnes deJavier Peña

Blackie Books

Agnes is an incredible novel, with a very original structure, which also catches you, surprises.Peña plays with the reader all the time, you are at will, and I, personally, have enjoyed a lot.A thrilling rhythm and a round end.In fact, the prologue only makes sense when you have read the novel, you will see how you will read it later, it works more as an epilogue - to place just before the author's epilogue, or rather of the co -star, of which we only know his pseudonym -Huy, what mess, but what a wonderful mess.It also works as a letter in which all the clues are to finish recomposing the puzzle.Agnes is fun, lonely, young.He is rabid against his boss, his mother and half the world.Luis Foret is an author who nobody knows anything.Agnes is willing to write his biography, more than anything because he has no other.Really highly recommended.

A luminous freedom of t c Boyle

Trad.Jon Bilbao

Impedimenta

No one tells how Boyle the historical fraud and mass deceptions of the North America of the twentieth century.He has written about the inventor of Loscerealeskellogg's, about the hippies of the Morning Star ranch or the Biosphere 2 Terranautas.Again and again, he contributes his skeptical eye to the stories of charismatic leaders who changed the lives of thousands of people and instilled their manias.Boyle is a teacher joining reality and fiction. En Una libertad luminosa el estudiante de psicología Fitzhugh Loney y su esposaJoanie acuden a una fiesta que da Timothy Leary, un personaje muy real: el psicólogo y entusiasta de las drogas psicodélicas que llegó incluso a fundar su propia religión, que pasó por la cárcel y que vivió en medio mundo huyendo de la justicia.Boyle deepens that convulsive, idealist and a little child in the history of the United States that were the sixties.I love this novel, I am fascinated by the cover, I disturb me Leary, and I subjugates myself Boyle.I have laughed, outraged, worried and a little even scared with this work.

A normal family of Mattias Edvardsson

Trad.Pontus Sánchez

Salamander

A psychological thriller, a family drama, a fascinating and very entertaining story.The same story is told by the three members who form the family, the tension is maintained until the end, because, although each one is providing new data, until the end it is not revealed who the murderer is.But the best thing about this book is that rather than resolving crime, what reveals this novel is fragility, but also strength, family and friendship relationships.The part that gives voice to Stella, the daughter, is the one that I liked the most, with narrative turns that cut your breath and hook you fully to the novel.

Fernando Aramburu's overgrowth

Tusquets

Aramburu's expected new novel after Patria does not disappoint. En realidad a mí me entusiasmó y más aún después de hablar sobre Los vencejos con el autor.Toni, a fifty, decides a day that just after a year will end his life.Toni tells us the day to day during those twelve months.His reflections, his past, an anodine life that however keeps us suspense, we want to know more about his past, more also of his future.Of the suicide itself, Toni reflects or reflects, it is the conductive thread of a novel that are actually two;There is a turning point in which everything changes.Aramburu looks with his precious prose, masterfully combines social satire with intimacy and tenderness, and even with a certain cynicism, and keeps the suspense of what will happen to the last page.

Antonio Iturbe's infinite beach

Seix Barral

Iturbe returns to his native Barcelonet.It combines the return of his alter ego of the same last name after years abroad with the stories of the neighborhood that González tells, the protagonist's friend who has never left Barceloneta.As he did in 'In the open' and 'The Library of Auschwitz', Iturbe records his fascination with the books, and returns to his leitmotiv, "the only thing that is tangible and can be kneaded is the past".

Didier da Silva's night of Didier

Trad.Vanessa GarcíaCazorla

Peripheral

Da Silva uses as an excuse the adaptation of the Julian calendar to the Gregorian in 1582, in which on October 4 to 15, to recourse very very events;births, deaths and disasters, showing the best black humor of him and a prose as precise as elegant and that spectacular ability to link events and most disparate characters.

Da Silva is fun, often cruel and sometimes both at the same time, as when the medical part of the agony of our last tyrant becomes poetry, "the disaster is fast.Nothing lasts a long time.Ecstasy is brief.Art is slow, "he says at a given time (p..105).

With scholarship but without pedantry, Da Silva immerses us in a calendar inhabited by musicians, inventors, queens that lose their heads, fakers, and perhaps more French detestable than would be appealing...An exciting reading for which I recommend providing post its and leaving wikipedia for later.

Muriel Spark's voices

Trad.Laura Ibáñez

Blackie Books

Caroline Rose is a character, a newly turned intellectual to theCatholic faith that begins to hear the tintineo of an invisible writing machine, followed by voices.Is it a religious experience or is getting crazy?According to the author herself, and according to Ali Smith's prologue to this edition, highly recommended, but to read after completing the reading of the novel -, the idea of the "spirit of the keys" that chasesCaroline arises fromThe hallucinations that Spark suffered in her skin when being an unpublished writer took dexedrina in an era of intense work, conversion toCatholicism, poverty and serious malnutrition.

The voices is the first novel, hilarious and very deep, of the great Muriel Spark, one of its twenty -two brief, irreverent, intelligent, truculent novels, full of autobiographical winks, crazy situations, philosophical reflections and good dose of metication, as is the case in The voices. No dejéis pasarotras tres novelas de Spark, La entrometida, que ya recomendamos el verano pasadoy Los solteros y Las señoritas de escasos medios, ambas publicadas recientemente en Impedimenta.

Kent Haruf's strongest bond

Trad.Cruz RodríguezJuiz

LiteraturaRandom House

It is an incredibly mature work to be Haruf's first novel, and a reminder of the author's rare sensitivity to portray the force but also the compassion of the dry plains ofColorado.It places the action in the fictitious town of Holt that will also be the place where its "plain trilogy" takes place, composed of the song of the plain, at the end of the afternoon and blessing.The Octogenarian Edith Goodnough lies in a hospital bed and a policeman watches her room because a fire destroyed the house where Edith lived with her sister and now accuse her of her murder.Sanders Roscoe, the neighboring farmer, who, to protect Edith, refuses to speak to a journalist who sends the people.But in the end it will be Sanders that will tell us a story that begins in 1906, when Edith and Lyman's parents arrived in Holt in search of land and fortune.

Knut Hamsun and Martin Ernstsen hunger

Trad.Cristina Gómez-Baggethun

Nordic comic

El clásico del Nobel Knut Hamsun que en el siglo XIX arrasó, se considera no solo la primera novela moderna escandinava, sino también un ejemplo sobresaliente de la novela psicológica que luego desarrollarían de Franz Kafka, AlbertCamus yJosé Saramago.The work is based on the author's own impoverished life before the success that would come in 1890 precisely hungry.Ernsten's comic adaptation gives even greater force to an outstanding work, puts us in the head of a famous man and helps us understand the irrationality of the human mind, that the author addresses intriguingly and often humorous humorous.Work.

Nana Black Black Kwame Adjei-Bornyah

Trad.JavierCalvo

Asteroid books

Twelve overwhelming stories that put us in the skin of racialized people and place us in the North America of the 21st century.All are part of a dystopian world too real, which hurts and all keep some coherence.Friday Black is dark, captivating and essential.This book is a call for attention in which adjects offers its powerful prose as a parable and denouncing a reality that although it happens in the United States, can be extrapolated to any western country.

This extraordinary collection of stories Duele, yes, but it will also give you hope and some smile will tear you away, because humor is also present between so much darkness and violence.Each of these stories, built with passion and intelligence, addresses problems that are the scourge of todayCapitalism and its infamous scope.

The disappearance of Adèle Bedeau de Graeme Macrae Burnet

Trad.Alicia Frieyro

Impedimenta

A full -fledged noir, so disturbing that at first it costs a bit to enter.The characters have all something sinister and the one that the protagonist, Manfred Baumann.A man in the thirty, taciturn, of methodical customs, director of a bank branch.When a young waitress disappears from the local restaurant all suspicions fall on Baumann;those of the neighbors, those of the inspector Gorski of police, even those of the reader.It is not known when the story happens, in a time before mobile phones and debit cards, but the psychological portrait of the characters is as deep as their inclinations.In the middle novel, when we least expect it, Brunet grabs us from the flaps and shakes us based on good.Events change sharply and flow into a round end.We remain without knowing very well if it is a real fact or if everything has been the author's invention.A postfacio does not clarify our doubts, the author plays with us as the cat with the mouse, and I, in particular, have enjoyed with each page of this game. Ya me atrapó Burnet con Un plan sangriento, un True crime que trasciende el "quién lo hizo" para centrarnos en "por qué lo hizo".

Agatha Raisin and the lethal quiche.C.Beaton

Trad. VicenteCampos

Salamander

If you like British comedies, detective mysteries, the English countryside, the Cake Plum and the straw roof pubs and extensive beer letter, it will love Agatha Raisin and the lethal quiche.Agatha Raisin is one of my favorite characters, and that is not precisely sympathetic, but a fifty selfish and frivolous.He left a poor childhood behind and became a high executive at an advertising agency.It is a boss and manipulative, cruel and insensitive.But he has a spark.A perfect story that catches from the beginning, with murder to solve included.The ideal reading to forget everything, throw you a good laugh and realize that the little things in life are priceless.

Anne Wiener's disturbing valley

Trad. deJavierCalvo

Asteroid books

A personal story of the 21st century, of precariousness in the publishing world, of the blinding brightness of technological startup, the lack of valuation of human capital, of the destiny of millennials: it is not that they do not want to possess things, it is that they cannot.Wiener worked in a literary agency until he decides to try his luck in a new and curious technological company and ends up in Sillicon Valley, making more money than he never dreamed.Fairy tale?Neither joke, Wiener reveals the dark side of technological ones: false ideals, endless days, prevailing misogyny, alienating corporatism.It does not give names, but they are clear: the "social network that everyone said," the platform for sharing housing "," the online supervision ".If you want to know what the Big Data world is like, Wiener explains it firsthand.

Guy Delisle Youth Chronicles

Trad.María Serna

Astiberri

Me esperaba que este álbum no me interesara gran cosa, al fin y al cabo, esta vez Delisle no nos habla de sus aventuras enCorea del Norte, ni en Myanmar o Israel, lugares en los que un paso en falso te puede costar la vida, sino que cuenta las vicisitudes de su empleo de verano en una fábrica de papel y pasta cuando era estudiante.I always believe that it is a bit like Ken Loach, places its stories in a context and although it tells what happens to the characters (which in the case of Delisle are usually him and his family) what is really telling us is whatIt happens in that place and moment.Here the Canadian author tells us many things about his life and his family, his separate parents and the strange and cold relationship he maintains with his parent, but also offers us facts and data from the paper industry, of ecological disastersthat has caused, of the trenching or camaraderie among a group of workers formed only by men.I was waiting for this album to interest me much and I was wrong.It's a great album.

What's lack of Laurent Petitmangin night

Trad. Lydia VázquezJiménez

LiteraturaRandom House

A moving novel in which there is tenderness and anger, nostalgia and cruelty, discouraging because of the way the tragedy gradually invades the life of the protagonists.A widower and their two children live in a small town in the French Lorena in which politics is in the center of everything.What can a father do when his son begins to make decisions that make a wrong course?The narrator, who belongs to the socialist party of a lifetime, sees impotent how a child escapes him that every day sympathizes more with the National Front.Despite the simplicity of his prose, the author manages to convey the emotions that impact us very well.We will feel involved in the work from the first moment and we will continue the plot expectant to know what happens, containing our breathing as we advance in the plot.Petitmangin stands out for its narrative agility and for the empathy that its characters cause us in this first fully snatching novel.

Sobre el duelo deChimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Trad.Cruz RodríguezJuiz

LiteraturaRandom House

Adoro aChimananda (hasta el punto de llamarla por su nombre de pila, como si fuera una amiga), sinceramente creo que su ensayo Todos deberíamos ser feministas debería ser lectura obligatoria en todos los institutos del planeta. Adoro sus dos charlas TED, su claridad mental, su vitalidad y su sentido del humor. El año pasado, en plena pandemia, falleció su padre, el profesorJames Nwoye Adichie, de forma repentina en su Nigeria natal. La alegreChimamanda quedó desconsolada y escribió sobre su dolor, sobre el amor que sentía a su padre, sobre su familia, sobre la vida y la muerte.An universal experience that has titled about the duel and that has fallen into my hands just when I needed it most, when I had just received the blow, the porrazo, of the unexpected and very painful loss.Chimamanda comparte con nosotros su dolor y nos muestra cómo el duelo nos afecta a todos de manera similar, aunque todos llevemos el luto de manera diferente. Un libro sincero y muy bello.

Friends forever from Daniel Ruiz

Tusquets

The title refers to the WhatsApp group of a group of friends from the institute that, despite their differences, are still the best running partners.They come with their partners to celebrate Pedro's 50th birthday, the eldest of the group.They are a group of the most normal, so with the naked eye.As you advance in the narrative, you begin to feel chills, their mischief and their youth sins are very unpleasant and do not have the grace damn, at least for me.They all have their traumas and their secrets, but none deserve acquittal.Thus, when that revelry night and celebration it becomes bitterly strange, what the reader feels is a bit weird, a certain joy, as if we congratulated ourselves with the fall in disgrace of those who used their privilege to humiliate others.

It is really a play, Polanski could make a wonderful movie with this novel, on the one hand it is almost a thriller of those read from a stroke, on the other, it shows us without capujos with lucid and very lively dialogues, the most side the side moredark from a group of friends who, in reality, have little in common.

What does a black like you in a place like this of Moha Gerehou

Peninsula

I will not say that this is a necessary book because, as Lucía Mbomío says in his prologue, "necessary" is a term that is often used when it is not known very well what to say.This is a book that everyone should read.Moha tells us, with a lively and very clear prose, which is to be a racialized person in Spain.Alternate personal anecdotes with dating and rigorous sources.An exciting reading, in which he reviews all the situations of racism that he and others face each day for his skin color, and does so in a clear and nothing victimistic way, but with some guasa, pointing out inconsistencies and ironies.It exposes issues that reinforce racism, such as the image of Africa that we all have by the media and fiction;or from the figure of the "white savior" of whose exploitation the economic phenomenon of "voluntary" has emerged;of violence, especially against racialized women;of the damage that stereotypes do, like all blacks have a huge penis or dance well (but not ballet).The book concludes with the most important, a call reader.To fight racism, it is not enough not to be racist, you have to be anti -racist. Posicionarse y no reír los chistes racistas, denunciar las desigualdades a la hora de buscar un piso de alquiler, o las que existen cuando entre losCV de los que aspiran a un puesto de trabajo hay una mujer que lleva hiyab.

Elisa Victoria's Gospel

Blackie Books

If with Vozdevieja Elisa Victoria already rebelled as an exceptional, intrepid, affectionate, sly and criticism with the Gospel, it is already placed at the top of what I call "really good writers".On this occasion, the author tells the story of Lali, a practical student who ends up teaching at a private Catholic school because she forgot to throw her application for destiny.Lali is a normal twenty -year -old, in a normal neighborhood, with a great mother and a better friend who loves.You get some money working 20 hours a week in a pizzeria and your life is not precisely pink.Lali feels quite empty, has concerns that eat morals, a cynical sense of humor and quite mediocre future expectations.Mediocre are also their most sexual intercourse, explicit sex scenes low.It demonstrates a unique ability to place yourself in the skin of Lali, to see the world through its eyes, to surprise us as if we were twenty years old and to question everything that surrounds us, everything: starting with the educational system and ending through relationshipssexual.

Made in Spain deJames Rhodes

Trad.Ismael Attrache

Plan B

España se divide en dos grupos, los que adoran aJames Rhodes y los que lo odian.Everyone should read this book because to better understand a country like ours, it is best to look at it with the eyes of an outsider.Curiosamente, los hispanistas más rigurosos siempre han sido británicos. Made in Spain:Cómo un país cambió mi forma de ver la vida es un libro que, como es habitual en Rhodes, va con banda sonora para acompañar a la lectura.The pianist tells us how he has had a second chance in Spain, which he describes as "a kind of witness protection program for asshole that have wasted their first version of life".Rhodes loves Spain, but not for that.Its citizens are superficial, selfish and, in large part, uncultured.His corrupt politicians, his unfortunate economy.Spain is a fucking shame and a disaster ".Despite the very hard - but successful - criticism with which Rhodes starts, this book is also a love letter towards this country that, with all its defects and contradictions, has received it with open arms.Not only does he reflect on his host country, but also tell us about his mother, his love, his battles, everyone's.At times heartbreaking, often hilarious, always sincere and never boring, this is Rhodes.A guy who opens his heart and speaks, writes, without tap, precisely and using a lot of tacos.

Maggie O'Farrell Hamnet

Trad.ConchaCardeñoso

Asteroid books

O'Farrell prepares a moving reconstruction of Hamnet's story, William Shakespeare's male son, who died in 1596 for unknown causes at eleven years of age.In Hamnet his father was inspired to write Hamlet later.Actually the novel is not about Shakespeare, not even Hamnet, but about Bardo's wife, Anne Hathaway, here called Agnes.The author travels between fiction and reality, builds an exciting story, very intense in some chapters.Hamnet is a subtle and beautiful novel, overflowing with nuances, which moves away from known historical events to delve into the small great issues of existence: family, affection, love, friendship, duel.A beautiful, sharp and moving novel, without fissures, round.

The goodwill of Ingmar Bergman

Trad.Marina Torres

Fulgencio Pimentel

The greatness of Ingmar Bergman as a filmmaker has often hidden his enormous value as a writer.Now Fulgencio Pimentel recovers the first installment of his family trilogy, in which Bergman reconstructs, from photographs, fabulations and memories, the first years of the turbulent relationship of his parents.Bergman offers us a story that we devour as if it were a movie.The goodwill - which Tusquets published in 1992 with the title the best intentions and that had its cinematographic version, directed by Ballo August and scripted by Bergman himself - was a work conceived as an epilogue to the film Fanny and Alexander, in whichAlexander is a transcript of little Bergman at 10 years of age.

Bergman's sentimental closeness with the text and weight of the protagonists in the formation of their own sensitivity make goodwill the most intimate of their inquiries in human passions.It is a resounding testimony of the behavior of the human race, of relationships and serves the author to rummage in his recurring obsessions: the incommunication, the secrets, the lie, the guilt, the relations of power within the family, theSexual vertigo, coexistence in a couple, resentment, hope (or faith) and its loss.

Oleg by Frederik Peeters

Trad.Lucia Bermúdez

Astiberri

Twenty years after blue pills, Peteers returns with another autobiographical novel, this time in the third person.His alter ego is called Oleg, he is also a comics cartoonist and a quiet man.He has a peaceful life, focused on his family, his wife, in his work ... for the first time in twenty years he faces a creative block ... and that situation leads him to reflect on how the world around him has changed;In technological modernity, in how reactionary thought has made its way in a previous tolerant society, in mass consumerism and the cult of superficiality.His work has remains tremendously shocking and emotional, in which Peteers demonstrates his unconditional love for his wife and daughter in a time of deep contradictions.

Guillem Sala's punishment

Tusquets

A brief and intense novel, with a very agile rhythm, which at first seems fun but then becomes something more murky.He puts you head but without realizing in the universe of the neighborhood institute and in that of a very suffocating family.Sala tells the story of Sandra, teacher, who carries her own emotional backpack and, in parallel, Izan's, a student, problematic, different.The idea of punishment, and self -harm, is very present throughout the work, a much more complex novel than it seems at first sight.Sala knows how to twist normality, catches the reader's attention from the first page, and does not release it.It is one of those works that are read from a roll, without knowing how I saw myself trapped in a story that with each page is gaining in intensity, becomes increasingly disturbing, until you reach the final outcome.

Bajo la superficie de DaisyJohnson

Trad.Carmen Torres y Laura Naranjo

Peripheral

Gretel, a young lexicographer, has been away from her mother for years, Sarah.He wants to find her and comes into contact with the people who influenced Sarah's life in one way or another, trying to understand the reasons for her behavior, trying to discover the secrets that her mother never entrusted to her.

Johnson recreates a personal and contemporary version of Oedipus Rey, which combines with a horror/ghost story, and a mirrors.As the novel progresses, the mythological source is clear, but the author takes a turn to history and introduces a whole game of mirrors where nothing is what it seems.The recurring themes are the nature of fear and the question of whether there is something similar to destiny and free will, and uses the natural environment of a river to illustrate and reinforce its history.

Those who leave do not return from Shulem Deen

Trad.NOELIA GONZÁLEZ BARRANCOS

Captain Swing

If you liked Unorthodox, if you were surprised by the customs and mania of the Jewish Jewish sect of the series, do not miss the ones that leave do not return.They are the memories of the journalist Shulem Deen in which he narrates how he managed to leave the skver community, one of the most isolated and unknown Jasidic sects in the United States.Cuenta cómo perdió la fé, cómo se vio de pronto simulando, obligado a una vida de engaño, temiendo ser descubierto y excluido del único mundo que conocía, aunque ya no comparta sus creencias.A fascinating vision of a culture and religion that did not know, a stunning story of how ties are cut with your family and community that is everything in your life.An agile, bold prose.The scenarios are drawn with a master hand, inn a fresh and disturbing work that investigates the value, religion, the loss of faith, but also about love, paternity, family, loyalty and freedom.

Tatiana ţîbuleac's glass garden

Trad.Marian Ochoa de Eribe

Impedimenta

Ţîbuleac, que ya nos robó el corazón en su primera novela, El verano en que mi madre tuvo los ojos verdes, nos lleva ahora a Moldavia durante los años más oscuros del comunismo.The old woman Tamara Pavlovna rescues little Lastochka from an orphanage, but that apparent act of goodness is nothing more than interest on the part of the old woman.The girl will work as a slave collecting glass bottles for almost a decade.Lasocika will go to school and grow between two languages and two cultures, his mold and the Russian that impose on him.You will also know the violence of the streets, steal and look for life, learn to defend themselves from men too insistent.The story, counted in the first person by the already adult protagonist, enters great sensitivity, fragility and hardness in the memories of her childhood, in which the pain of abandonment, the lack of love, but also the search for identity arealways present issues.

With total freedom of Zadie Smith

Trad.Eugenia Vázquez Nacarino

Salamander

A collection of cultural criticism, personal essays and political writings.Con total libertad muestra el versátil rango de Zadie Smith como escritora, se atreve a todo, sabe de todo. Smith aborda muchos temas, desde el Brexit y la política del espacio público, hastaJustin Bieber y la influencia de los ídolos adolescentes.The eclecticism of the collection is its greatest force but also its weak point;There is something for everyone, but few will find all the trials of interest, and that all are consistent, provocative and very well written.They have served me to interest myself in issues that had never caught my attention, or those that I did not know at all.In my case, for example, Smith has discovered the painter Lynette Yiadom Boakye, for me before an authentic unknown.

PRDRO AND MAILI DE ÁLVARO ORTIZ

Astiberri

Las cosas que saca Astiberri bajo su selloCaramba! nunca tienen desperdicio.They show you life from another perspective, always surprising. En esta ocasión, Álvaro Ortiza, alguien que ya nos cautivó con Cenizas y luego siguió con Murderabilia y Rituales. Siempre ha tenido mucho sentido del humor, pero pensé que Prdro y Maili sería una parodia insulsa porque parte de los Twitter que intercambiaron –en la vida real– MileyCyrus y el presidente Sánchez con motivo de una iniciativa solidaria de la fundación GlobalCitizen.Parody yes, insula, or joke!I had not laughed as much as with this superhero comic adventure, such as very badly badly badly badly bad characters, heroes with super powers in a very cheli, very chulesco framework and very our.Highly recommended.

A room of Virginia Woolf

Trad.Laura Pujol

Seix Barral

A new edition has just left with illustrations by Sara Morante and prologue to Elena Medel of this key work of feminism.This work, which is between the narrative and the essay;It emerged when in 1928 they proposed to Virginia Woolf to give a series of talks on the subject of women and the novel.The author, far from any dogmatism or presumption, was questioned from a realistic, brave and very particular point of view what women need to write good novels.And it came to a conclusion: economic and personal independence, that is: "have your own room".This new enlightened version is perhaps the perfect gift to start meeting women...I leave it there.

Trigo limpio deJuan Manuel Gil

Seix Barral

The winning work of the Brief Library Prize 2021 fascinated me from the first image, that of a child who runs behind a ball on the airstrip with a plane attached to the heels.From there, the suspense does not decrease a moment, but do not believe that it is you who read the book, it is a gil that takes you where he wants.His ability to handle narrative tension is huge.You don't know what is true and what is fiction, but it doesn't matter either.You just want to advance in history, in stories, because the secrets and mysteries happen vertiginously, and yet each one in their time, do not try to get ahead of events because the author will not let you.Gil plays with the reader as a cat with a mouse, until the final bundle hit us.A bitch that does not annihilate, but stimulates, leaves you wanting to read more.Not only is it a tremendously addictive novel, it is also a space for reflection on literature, chance, about the relationship between life and fiction, about what is (or we believe) truth and what is invention.It is also a return to childhood and a song to the friendship of childhood.An agile, dynamic prose, clear, with ingenious dialogues, in which the author does not scrap his fine sense of humor.

Lejos del bosque deChris Offutt

Trad. deJavier Lucini

Sajalín

A set of stories hilvanados for a common theme: escape from the forest and home in which you cried to end up returning to it.Offutt takes us to the same place of his previous books, the closed night novels and my father, the pornographer and the stories collected in Kentucky Seco.In his stories there is as much truth as gunpowder and squirrel stew.Far from the forest, he collects the author's first stories, they may not have all the precise tempo of their subsequent works.Even so, they are exceptional.His fiction is serious, his solid characters, of one piece, and the author treats them with total sincerity.Offutt lights the ceiling light and withdraws the sheet, show them as they are in all their desolation and dignity, it makes us known what the home is for each of them.There are authentic jewels, such as "Melungoons", a story that tells us about brawls that last more than fifty years between different families of these trirracial groups (Melungeon is a term applied to descendants of Europeans, sub -Saharan and Amerindian Africans).Ouffut poses his gaze among pious and criticism in the disadvantaged and in which they have been dragged by bad fortune.He gets a chill to travel our back as if we were in front of each of the scenes he describes and full of life with his careful, austere and yet full prose full of lyricism.

Isabel Figueiredo colonial memories notebook

Trad. AntonioJiménez Morato

Asteroid books

A surprising novel in which the author, with an almost clinical coldness, crumbles her childhood and adolescence in Lourenço Marques, the colonial name of the current Maputo, in Mozambique.Corren los años sesenta y setenta, una sociedad tan racista como la del Apartheid sudafricano, los blancos son los amos, tratan a los negros como animales, y a las negras… bueno, las negras solo sirven para satisfacer los deseos más bajos de los colonos con la aquiescencia de sus blancas esposas.In fact, it is worse than apartheid because the privileged ones who exploit and abuse blacks are believed to be treated well, that they fulfill a "civilizing" work.A spooky book, in which the world of whites privilege first describes, and then tells how those privileges end up with decolonization.I admire the frankness, courage and the will of Figueiredo to tell the truth, its truth, but which turns out to be that of many others.I imagine that the struggle he matured with herself must have been horrible when he began this project that opens the doors of his life and his family to anyone who wants to look out, in which he tells us about his peculiar relationship with his father, with sex, with sex,With rebellion.A ruthless and wild voice, but also genuinely moving and truthful.

You have to look at Anna Starobinets

Trad.Viktoria Lefterova and Enrique Maldonado

Impedimenta

It is difficult to tell anything about this book without spoilers: I will only say that it addresses a topic that normally interests me anything, motherhood, pregnancy.Even so, I had personally recommended Enrique Redel and I did not hesitate to pay attention to him;His criteria is always successful and if he recommended this particular book would be for something.It is a small great work, heartbreaking, disturbing, sincere and terrifying.Cuando la lees agradeces aún más vivir en un país con una sanidad pública como la nuestra, con unos profesionales sanitarios como los nuestros.It is not surprising that the book caused a stir in Russia because the author shows without artifice the harsh reality of the postsoviet system, a tremendously macho, cold and manipulat.What she suffered in her own skin (after all is a kind of personal diary), and what others suffer that, unlike her, do not have money or do not know their rights.Starobinets was also throughout her nightmare accompanied by her husband, Sasha Garros, also a writer and journalist, who, unlike the majority of Russian men, is involved in the head and accompanies her wife throughout the process throughout the process.It is a very beautiful book.Cuando lo acabo de leer googleo el nombre del marido de Starobinets para ver si hay alguna obra suya traducida al castellano y me entero de que Garrós murió un año después de que ella acabara Tienes que mirar, y me embarga una profunda.sadness.If there is a couple that deserves happiness, the joy of raising a healthy family, it is that formed by Anna and Sasha.

Al final siempre ganan los monstruos deJuarma

Blackie Books

A group of friends who go together since they went to school, thirty years of runries in which the party is always present, cocaine.At first it cost me a little to enter, but then, since I received the first slap, I did not stop until the end, I read it from a stroke. Me cautivó por lo mismo que al principio me confundió:Juarma cuenta la historia a través de los relatos de esa misma historia que hacen los personajes, cada uno según su punto de vista, siendo todos ciertos, y todos distintos.It is a psychological, very real novel, about a changing and subjective reality, and more changing and subjective when there are drugs in between.In the end the monsters always hook, it has a thrilling rhythm, you always want to read more.It is a box of surprises, when you least expect it, you take another slap, so from the entrance to the epilogue.They have compared it, very rightly with Irvine Welsh, as he, reflects the crude pain of the emotional scars of those who had no more future than the spree, the friends and the rush of a coca line.

Minorities of Desirée Bela-Lobedde

Plan B

What kind of life faces in a country like ours a woman when she is also black, migrant, trans, lesbian, has a chronic disease or a disability?Desirée Bela-Lobedde responds to those who minimize the consequences they have for a person belonging to a collective without privileges, and I no longer tell you when she belongs to several at the same time.An essay on inequality in which the author talks with 9 very different women, but they all have one thing in common, their courage to rebel against discrimination (or discriminations) of which they are subject: race, religion, sex, sexual orientation.Stories in which women speak in their own voice, not through anyone, Bela-Lobedde limits themselves to transcribing their meetings, in which there is always a personal anecdote of the author, woman and Afro-descendant and, therefore, belonging to adiscriminated minority.Cada uno de estos relatostiene vida propia y nos acercan a la desigualdades que viven las minorías en nuestro país: invisibilización, discriminación, hipersexualización.Human, deep, moving, necessary.

Kiko Amat rematch

Anagram

Do you know when you take a chilli, that itches everything, your breathing cuts your eyes, your eyes cry, and instead of leaving it on the plate you give it another bite?That is what happens with revenge, which hurts but you keep reading, as an addict until the end.Laugh from Anthony Burgess, Irvine Welsh or Bret Easton Ellis, Amat has a force that knocks from the first page.It is a vengeance novel, of Skins, of unstructured families, of fraternal love, of hate, of much indiscriminate hate.A perfectly structured, round novel, with several plots that intertwine until reaching an end where all blocks.A history of violence, a lot.Of course, it is not suitable for pusilánimes.

Interview with Kiko Amat: "I work it so that my characters are not spokesmen of my shit"

On Monday they will love Najat el Hachmi

Destination

La novela ganadora del último premio Nadal recuerda un poco a la primera en recibir el galardón, Nada, deCarmen Laforet.Both are young women looking for their place in a world where everything seems pre -established.If there is a transgressive book is this, Monday will love us.If there is a book that talks about friendship is this.If there is a book that talks about fighting this.The protagonist, Naíma, speaks with her best friend and through what she tells her, of her long monologue, we know the history of these two women, Spanish of Moroccan origin.Two young people fighting wind and tides for their right to independence, not to be subjected by an atrocious fundamentalism.The hashmi tells us with a clear and fierce prose, what she lived in her own skin, what thousands of women live and, in doing so, opens our eyes to a reality with which we live together and often do not even see: thesemi slavery to which society subjects its women in the name of God, of the family, and of decency.Islamic religion is not so different from Christian, as always, it is fans who transform into a precept, in a norm, in divine law which allows them to preserve their privileges.Hachmi masterfully combines social criticism with intimacy and tenderness.

Miss Marte de ManuelJabois

Alfaguara

A strange disappearance, well, in reality two.A small Galician villa hit by the tragedy, for the dramatic events that took place in 1993, during the party that follows the celebration of a wedding.Miss Mars has all the ingredients of a good thriller, but it is not.Because, although the suspense is maintained until the end, what matters most to us are the characters, rebuild the most affective events than experiential.We are interested in rebuilding a story, but we are more interestedTo Mai Lavinia and his daughter Yulia.Jabois utiliza unos giros narrativos que te cortan la respiración y te enganchan a la novela.The result: an evocative, ingenious, well written work.

Hombres que caminan solosdeJuan IgnacioCarnero

LiteraturaRandom House

Carnero is undressed again before the reader, as he did in Ama, and he does it in a way in which men do not usually do, confessing their weaknesses, their downturn, their depression.He also speaks of love, of heartbreak, of moving afloat when you think you are already irremediably sunk.A sincere, tremendous book, in which we feel the bite of depression in our own skin, but, in turn, it is also a song to hope.Some characters face their fears and ambitions, which, often, are everyone's, that's why they are so real.Carnero tiene una voz personal, pero que apela a un universal en el que estamos un poco todos.

Naoise porn days of naooise

Trad. EstherCruz

Today's issues

Reading this book has returned me to half a life, when the rules of the attraction of Bret Easton Elllis fell into my hands that I devoured as a beast.If that was the book of generation X, this is that of the Z, the postmilenials, clueless in a world of job precariousness despite its very high academic qualification.A world of uncertain sexual identities and complicated emotional relationships in which the protagonist tries to find her place.The action takes place in Hong Kong in the early era, where the protagonist Ava has landed in an attempt to ... escape itself.A scathing novel, at times very funny, also shows tenderness for characters who do not know what they want, who fear their future and what they left behind.Dolan explores different forms of love and desire, and deepens issues such as social conventions, the manipulation to which social networks, the power of money and influences, the prevailing classism and the enormous precariousness to which they seeThe young people, no matter how bright their academic history has been, if they do not belong to the appropriate elite.

Un par de cómicos, de DonCarpenter

Trad.Rubén Martín Giráldez

Sixth floor

The comedian Dave Ogilvie has been comfortably located in fame for years.It passes much of the relaxed time on your ranch.His work is limited to shooting a mediocre movie but successful per year, followed by some galas in Las Vegas. Forma equipo, al estilo de Dean Martin yJerry Lewis, con su amigoJim Larson, más guapo, más brillante y más sinvergüenza que él.Cada año se enfrenta al mismo Hollywood con sus presiones, sus extravagancias, sus jóvenes aspirantes a actrices, sus fiestas, sus drogas… Un relato pausado, quizá sin más objeto que permitirnos echar un vistazo al mundo algo deprimente, no demasiado, del Hollywood de los 60 para los artistas con cierto éxito, tampoco de fama desorbitada. DonCarpenter sabe de qué habla.For years he wrote scripts for cinema and television.A leisurely prose, which leads you comfortably to the final page.

All under the sun of Ana Penyas

Salamander Graphica

A graphic novel in which Penyas tells us the story of a family, but tells us much more.The action starts on the Levantine coast in the early sixties and tells us the story of a family that suffers the devastating consequences of mass tourism, the main engine of economic developmentalism at the time of Franco.Throughout the decades, we see how the rise of neoliberalism truncated the hopes and projects of the members of this family, whose testimony tells us about a time when landscapes and their natural wealth were transformed forever.It is not just the story of a family, it is the story of many, how Levante has been sold and the hopes of so many truncated.Just as Penyas did, we are all good, dive in the past and take us to him: he reproduces, with that wonderful style of his thick pencils and his particular color palette, landscapes, furniture, posters.Penyas captures life, essence and always transmits a clear message: the garden before brick, always.A book as beautiful as necessary.

Justin deJulien Frey y Nadar

Trad.María Serna

Astiberri

Nadar yJulien Frey ya me conquistaron el año pasado con El cineasta, la historia de Édouard Luntz. Esta vez nos vuelven a llevar al pasado, al año 1943, para relatar la historia deJustin, el abuelo de la mujer de Frey, quien, como otros 600.000 French, he was forced to work in Germany.Laval's second government reactivated large -scale collaboration with the Nazis, giving renewed impulse to France's economic integration into the war machine of the third Reich, sending French workers to Germany forced (and creating for it the "work serviceMandatory (STO) ". Es también una historia de amor, el deJustin y Renée, en los duros años de la contienda, cuando el joven camarero de La National se enamora dela chica más guapa de la imprenta, que además es una mujer casada. EnJustin hay ternura y rabia, hay nostalgia y crueldad, pero sobre todo, reconocimiento. Es un tributo aJustin y a todos los que fueron obligados a trabajar como esclavos, en unas condiciones tan lamentables como humillantes, y que, tras la guerra, fueron injustamente acusados de colaboracionismo.

Ethel and Ernest by Raymond Briggs

Trad.Regina López

Blackie Books

Delicious!A biography in graphic novel format of the life of the author's parents, drawn and written from love.A deeply moving work, tender, wonderful.I have learned more in this book about the United Kingdom than in the many years I lived in England.The interwar period, World War II, blitz, rations, pop culture, everything is explained in a detailed and affectionate, personal and unique way. Unas ilustraciones detalladas, hermosísimas del autor deCuando el viento sopla, la película de animación cuyos protagonistas, Hilda yJim Bloggs fueron ya un trasunto de Ethel y Ernest los propios padres de Briggs.An evocative, ingenious and absolutely moving work.