THE DIVINE
Laura Restrepo Alfaguara · 2018
One of the most recognized figures in current Latin American literature, Laura Restrepo, build The divine based on real news that shook his native Colombia. The kidnapping, rape and murder of a seven-year-old girl at the hands of an architect from the upper class of Bogotá. Turning to fiction, Restrepo scratches the mind of a person who commits a crime of that style, brutal and heartbreaking, and that of the four friends, spoiled and infantilized, that cover it up. They are not monsters, but “normal” people, that's why they're scarier. “If you want to see a monster, “Undress and look in the mirror.”. S.M.
ORDESA
Manuel Vilas · Alfaguara · 2018
OrdesaIt is a novel about regret. The regret of a son, the author, for not having done, asked and accompanied his parents in life, while I could. About the loneliness a man feels when he loses his parents. About the strength of family. and of life, that passes from parents to children in an infinite loop. Playing with reality and fiction, between prose and poetry, Manuel Vilas has written one of the most talked about books this year. 2018. Intense to rats, deep, not for all audiences. S.M.
MYSTERY BOOK. THE CASE OF THE FISH WOMAN
Ivan Tapia and Montse Linde Lunwerg · 2018
The Casa Amián hostel is the scene of the mysterious crime of a young woman who goes by the name of Mujer Pez. The investigation has fallen to inspector Manuel Martín. Since the task is very big, turns to… readers. Thus we become detectives: reviewing background, paying attention to the different tests… Who committed the murder? GINÉS J. VERA
ORLANDO
Virginia Woolf · Lumen · 2018
Con Orlando, Virginia Woolf wanted to revolutionize the biographical genre. Lumen recovers this novel written in 1928 as a biography – inspired by the life of a woman with whom Woolf was in love – that also challenged temporal limits (The protagonist's life spans more than 400 years). Orlando is a sixteen-year-old nobleman from the Elizabethan era who, after living a series of adventures, one fine day he wakes up turned into a woman. Her sudden sex change allows Woolf to reflect on the disadvantages and privileges of being a woman., about what women can't do (“smashing a man's head or telling him he is lying through his teeth, sit in parliament…”), and about their pigeonholing as virgins, wives or widows. Orlando It is a satire of sexism tremendously ahead of its time that despises – always kind in language – conventionalisms., hypocrisy and sexual roles: “No matter how diverse the sexes are, they intermingle. There is no human being who does not oscillate from one sex to another…”. An innovative novel in formal terms and very demanding in depth.. S.M.
DIAMOND RED HUMMINGBIRD. ILLUSTRATED DREAMS
Ginnungagap & elmonstruodecoloresnotieneboca · 2018
Usually, in the projects of elmonstruodecoloresnotieneboca, dreams of boys and girls are illustrated by adult cartoonists, but in Diamond Red Hummingbirds the dynamic has been reversed. Children from between 6 y 9 years of Switzerland and Spain have drawn with two colors the dreams of fifteen illustrators who have then finished the work started by the little ones. A delicious collaboration between dreamers (illustrators by profession) and children (profession dreamers) with which to delight. S.M.
VAGINA MONOLOGUES
Eve Ensler · Editions B · 2018
Penguin Random House reissues the script of the famous play by Eve Ensler vagina monologues, twenty years after its release, along with other monologues written as a result of the activism that generated. Based on interviews with a diverse group of more than two hundred women who talk about their vaginas, the texts deal with rape during the Balkan war, female genital mutilation, transsexuality, domestic violence, rape culture, the passivity of good men (“Where the hell are you?”?”) and comfort women (the euphemism that describes women forced into sexual slavery by the Japanese military during World War II). Breaker, shameless, very hard, funny… an unappealable example that the personal is political. S.M.
RARE, RADICALS AND REBELS
Carlos Cubeiro · Modernito Books · 2018
Illustrated plates (ready to be ripped off) made into a book about some of the most captivating personalities in poetry, at literature, the cinema, the plastic arts and music of universal history. Behind each illustration, a short text about the life and work of some geniuses – many of them alcoholics –, literary quirky, revolutionary dancers, bohemian painters, intellectuals who preach free love, activist athletes, androgynous musicians, suicidal youth, vagabond poets, and women ignored by historiography. You will want to know more about each of them. Inevitably. S.M.
AFRICA THE GOOD
Tatiana Roig · Chiado Books · 2018
The Valencian journalist Tatiana Roig presents her first novel, a story full of intrigue, crimes and thrilling escapes, but also of reflection and personal search. The author narrates an adventure through Africa that will end up becoming an introspective journey and an opportunity to explore topics such as loneliness, the loss of loved ones or the courage to change the course of our lives. GEMMA SANCHIS
IF CHANCE ALLOWS IT. SCIENCE STORIES, LOVE AND PSYCHOTIC OUTBREAKS
Alex Davis · Ed. seaplane · 2018
If destiny, chance or any force majeure has allowed you to reach this book, you have been very lucky: Sixteen stories await you with a humor that overflows with ingenuity, starring curious and careful characters, and told with colloquial but fine prose, nada here. Hilarious, tender and witty stories from a new author who has a promising future. GLORIA POZUELO
LIVE CINEMA AND ITS TECHNIQUES
Francis Ford Coppola · Resevoir Books · 2018
between the years 2015 y 2016 Director Francis Ford Coppola conducted two experiments with students at Oklahoma City Community College and the School of Theater, Film and Television at the University of California, Los Angeles. Both experiments were intended to explore what he considers a new avenue for cinema.: live cinema. And what does this consist of?? Aware of the possibilities offered by new technologies, Coppola sought to test the limits and learn about the difficulties and problems of trying to construct live stories that, unlike what happens on conventional television, could imitate, in real time, the narrative possibilities of traditional cinema. We refer to the types of plans, the aesthetics (in lighting, For example), the freedom of your narrative, but intended for a live show. This book is a diary of this experience, of its technical difficulties, of the solutions that you have managed to propose up to this moment. In Coppola's head there is an idea that haunts him on every page: try to combine the immediacy of television with that “imperfect” realism of a theatrical performance, but enjoying the aesthetic possibilities of cinema. However, If this book can be interesting for the general public, it is not only because of the reflections made by the director of Apocalypse Now, a real lesson in how cinema works inside, but for the possibility of getting closer to the intimate experience of a man who, at eighty years old, remains in love with his art. And that is where Coppola's great talent as a narrator will shine.. Full of personal anecdotes, Coppola kindly leads us through this crazy adventure (like most of his projects) and he makes us have a really good time. There are no more crazy people like these. G.LEON
RETROSPECT
Lou-Andreas Salomé · Alliance · 2018
Eduardo Gil Bera says that Lou-Andreas Salomé and Rainer Maria Rilke met in Munich. This very important, early meeting gave rise to a strong friendship as well as the Florentine diary of the author of the Duino Elegies. About certain episodes of his life; about Rilke and other personalities (Freud, Nietzsche) the writer realizes in this particular memoir. R.M.
ART AND VISUAL CULTURE
Félix Fanés · Chair · 2018
The subtitle is more illuminating. Because this book includes some articles about 20th century art, that of the historical avant-garde more particularly, by Professor Fanés. In them he deals with the figures of Fernand Léger, Salvador Dali, Miró or Buñuel The Hurdes, but also minimalism or art and propaganda in Spain at the beginning of the civil war. R.M.
HEAL WITH THE FORCE OF NATURE
Andreas Michalsen Planet · 2018
Dr. Michalsen proposes to us with scientific rigor to rediscover our physical and emotional balance through integrative medicine and naturopathy.. A technique that considers the patient as a whole. Chapter by chapter we will go through how hydrotherapy can help us, nutritional therapy, physical exercise, Yoga, phytotherapy or therapeutic fasting. GINÉS J. VERA
