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K-Punk – Volumen 3. Collected and unpublished writings (Reflections, Acid communism and interviews)
Tokyo Redux
David Peace · Tin Sheet · 2021
David Peace's Tokyo Redux closes The Tokyo Trilogy and can be read as an allegory of the transformation of Tokyo. For the detectives, politicians, gangsters and geishas that populate these novels and specifically, the last, Tokyo Redux, The past is a space of violence that dangerously borders the present. Inside the impeccable police plot, Tokyo struggles to rid itself of legacy of atomic bombs, genocide and sexual slavery. The crimes around which each novel is plotted are real events from the first post-war years in Tokyo.. They become metaphors for the way in which historical violence stalks a city in search of a new identity.. The last installment develops around the disappearance of the first president of the National Railways, Shimoyama, who fired 30.000 workers, becoming a target for unions. With this argument, Peace continues his fascination with industrial policy that we already saw in GB84. Develops the novel in three periods: 1949, during the occupation; 1964, when Tokyo hosts the Olympic Games; y 1988, when Emperor Hiroito, that led Japan through World War II, agonizes. LIGHTS ROMERO (BARTLEBY)
Norway
Rafael Lahuerta shipyard · 2020
There are many Norways and each reader—if it is a reader from Valencia—, according to its relationship with the city, in which neighborhood he had lived and grown up, where he had studied, where and how he had awakened to life and death, according to his dose of loneliness, will read a different novel. the phenomenon Norway it is difficult to explain with parameters of literary or market logic, illogical enough in themselves. On the marketing side, of the networks, from word of mouth, and other favorable circumstances, Norway succeeds because Rafa Lahuerta has the skills of a writer and there is no imposture in his story. If there is one feature that runs through the novel, it is sincerity and honesty. Norway it is written with a firm pulse, with courage, sense hurry, from within. Thought and rethought. It navigates through emotions and doses them, takes readers on an intense internal journey, full of twists and turns. As if I had invited them to an amusement park where they get scared, adrenaline, but also this sadness that the fair attractions give off. LOURDES TOLEDO
Berlanga. Life and cinema of an irreverent creator
Miguel Ángel Villena Tusquets · 2021
The Valencian journalist Miguel Ángel Villena gives us a portrait of the brilliant director Luis García Berlanga. Starting from his work as a guide for this journey, Villena draws a man for whom his comprehensive view of reality was indistinguishable from his way of understanding cinema. A very enjoyable book to celebrate the centenary of the birth of the brilliant director of Placid. G.LEON
Yo, lie
Silvia Hidalgo Transit · 2021
In Yo, lie the protagonist could be Carolina, Lola o Carmen. It is a novel told in the first person that speaks to us from you to you but goes further.: It is any of us at this moment and at this age. A woman around forty, that she is married and that she is a mother but that she does not know who she is or how she got there and, what's worse: He doesn't know where he's going either.. This could be a tragedy, but nothing further, because Silvia Hidalgo's writing is ironic and brutally honest. A highly recommended summer read.. ALODIA CLEMENTE (THE RED)
