THE PASS. A PUNK STORY
Benjamin Villegas Bandaparte · 2018
Step. A punk story by Benjamín Villegas is not another book about gangs rock, is the obsessive search for a story that could have changed the history of the world forever. punk–rock. A journey that starts from a suitcase full of flyers, fanzines, collages and a couple of recordings of the band punk chicane El Paso, a journey that takes the author to Texas in search of the remains of history. JAIME ORTEGA – PER(R)EAR
HISTORY OF SPAIN TOLD TO GIRLS
María Bastarós Fulgencio Pimentel · 2018
History of Spain told to girls by María Bastarós is fresh, fun, acidic; It's something you didn't expect to find., It's something you haven't read yet.. daughter of her time, Bastarós handles himself like no one else in the fragmentary story, with direct style and agile narrativity. And it leaves you breathless like an elbow to the nose. ALODIA CLEMENTE – THE RED
A NIGHT IN PARADISE
Lucia Berlin Alfaguara · 2018
One night in paradise by Lucía Berlin is a collection of 22 unpublished reports, selected by the writer's own son, already deceased, that only demonstrate the injustice with which he was treated in life. Lucía Berlin masterfully manages between black comedy and southern drama. ALODIA CLEMENTE – THE RED
MAKE MEMORY
CARDENO ADORNO
Katharina Winkler · Peripheral · 2018
In her first novel Katharina Winkler recounts and fictionalizes the real experience of a Muslim of Kurdish origin that she met. a terrible story, that plays with the euphemism of the title to tell us about the tragedy suffered by millions of girls, youths, women who will become wives and what they suffer tied to sexist traditions and weighed down by myths such as that of romantic love. Based on the misrepresentation of concepts such as religion, happens anywhere in the world. Filiz's story, with his body splashed with that purple ink, it amazes, that brand that becomes your routine, in serving and obeying a husband who mistreats her daily. She grows up in a town where all the women wear the same purple ruby on their bodies.. She measures her life through those hits. The narration is hard, shrink the body, but necessary and wrapped in a poetics that makes it difficult to abandon reading it. LIGHTS ROMERO – BARTLEBY
THE KINGDOM
Gonçalo Tavares · Six Barral · 2018
The kingdom brings together Tavares' four short novels: a man: Klaus Klump, Joseph Walser's machine, Jerusalem y Learning to pray in the age of technology, written between 2003 y 2007. His work raises our reflection on the freedom of the individual., the madness, chaos and the search for order, war or the power exercised by the State, social relations and violence. Plan on very political issues, He wants to keep us on alert. Conceive literature as a way to observe better, a way of thinking to try to understand. And that is evident in his novels.. Reflect on the machine and technology, on the ethics of machine and human use. A necessary read. LIGHTS ROMERO – BARTLEBY
HORROR CINEMA 1930-1939
Pedro Porcel · Defile · 2018
For Pedro Porcel, the 1930s welcomed the birth and peak of a new cinematographic genre.: the terror. With the crack stock market 29, The United States would face the other side of capitalism, an era of depression that would be reflected in the birth of countless monsters embodied by myths such as Bela Lugosi or Boris Karloff. G.LEON
YOUR HOUSE BURNS
Daniel Marshall · Blackie Books · 2018
Dan Marshall describes with a very particular humor the terrible situation he overcame with 25 years: having to leave everything (job, bride…) to care for a parent with ALS until death (Stephen Hawking's degenerative disease) and a mother with cancer. Use direct language, very colloquial, to explain without euphemisms the fucking (What would he say?) about this disease and how hard it was to deal with it. An authentic drama told between jokes and a lot of swearing. S.M.
THE CAPITAL
Robert Menasse · Six Barral · 2018
The professional and personal lives of five characters intersect in Brussels. Ambitious novel, where Menasse unravels the depths of the political life of the gray European capital and, with transparent writing tinged with humor and irony and a story in the purest style House of Cards, Review our troubled past and look toward a united future. GLORIA POZUELO
AN EDUCATION
Tara Westover · Lumen · 2018
Tara Westover is the daughter of a fanatical and bipolar Mormon junkyard dealer convinced that she should homeschool her children to keep them away from socialism and the perversion that prevails in public school.. The author tells us in first person about her childhood and adolescence working in the family scrap yard under the orders of her father and under the yoke of a violent and manipulative brother.. Until education changes your life, makes her an autonomous person, with their own opinions that do not fit into the family order. Education changes everything for Tara, but it costs a lot of suffering and personal sacrifices. S.M.
KHALIL
Yasmina Khadra · Alliance · 2018
Yasmina Khadra fictionalizes the brutal terrorist attacks in Paris, posing a hypothesis about how a Belgian boy of Moroccan origin, native of the Belgian Molenbeeck neighborhood, You may end up enrolled in a terrorist cell willing to cause as many victims as possible in the name of Allah.. Khalil does not feel like a citizen, but a social problem, a vulgar assimilate who has not known integration. A very real story of exclusion, frustration, hatred and violence. S.M.
THE BLACK LIGHT
