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In the house of dreams
Carmen María Machado Anagram · 2021
The author of His body and other parties, Carmen Maria Machado, con In the house of dreams. The brilliant storyteller changes gears to immerse us in an autobiographical novel where our hearts will once again shrink., but this time telling us about the toxic relationship he experienced during his university years, in which your partner (a girl with an impeccable image) exercised verbal and physical patriarchal violence against her. ALODIA CLEMENTE (THE RED)
The Invincible
bad jew
Piotr Smolar · affairs · 2021
A journalist from The World is sent as a correspondent to Israel. Discover a society full of tensions, where many things do not fit. Also discover your family history. french? jew? The grandfather was a hero of the Communist Resistance against the Nazis in Belarus. Son pare, victim of repression and anti-Semitism in socialist Poland. A fascinating book about personal identity in the midst of the storm of history. GUSTAU MUÑOZ
Hamnet
Maggie O'Farrell · Asteroid Books · 2021
Agnes has pushed her husband to London because she notices how depression is eating him in Stratford, she notices things, he senses them, hears them, sees them. In the London comedy pens he built a successful career and in his texts he took refuge after the unexpected death of his son Hamnet., the one who decides to watch over in a very special way, leaving a mark in the annals of universal literature. Maggie O'Farrell masterfully fictionalizes Shakespeare's family history in this novel that focuses on the secondary ones, Shakespeare no es, Not much less, the protagonist of his life and that is precisely what makes it so interesting. AU
She said
Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey · KO books · 2021
There are journalistic investigations that overthrow governments, like that of Richard Nixon in the wake of the Watergate scandal, and others that, besides knocking out powerful men, They tighten a specific nut at the right moment to unclog the faucet and help change the paradigm. Rumors regarding the way producer Harvey Weinstein cossets women were an open secret in Hollywood., until the journalists of the New York Times Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey decided to investigate how much truth there was in them and, discovered the cake, They encouraged victims to come forward and report abuse to the public.. The result was an article that shook the foundations of patriarchy by putting in black and white that sexual abuse was not isolated cases., but a generalized practice integrated into the system. She said describes how the investigation was forged that broke the confidentiality clauses that silenced sexual harassment claims and showed that a problem does not exist if it is not talked about. A few brave people were the first to denounce Weinstein's humiliating treatment and unleashed a cathartic wave of similar stories collected on social networks with the hashtag #MeToo, sheltered in the heat of the pack. Reporting stopped being shameful and became admirable. "Suddenly, “Many things were called into question.”. AU
