Summer books 2024

Tierra
Alberto Torres Blandina · Candaya Publishing
Through the cosmos of real testimonies from people from more than one hundred countries, Alberto Torres composes a kind of recent history of humanity that encompasses, since the construction of the Berlin Wall, to the present day. Tierra It is an exceptional novel that elevates the short story and places everyday life at the center of everything that makes up our collective memory.. ESTELA SANCHIS (Bangarang)

secret streets
Pierre MacOrlan · The Felguera
secret streets by Pierre Mac Orlan, published by installments in 1934, It is one of the great reports of the 20th century about the bad life and social dregs during the turbulent and fascinating years between the wars.. A hyperrealistic photograph of the underworld of a world that, in some aspects, hasn't changed too much. JAIME ORTEGA (Per-r-ucho)

Linden Hills
Gloria Naylor · Nordic Editorial
This fantastic novel published for the first time in 1985 is a reflection on the cost of achieving the American dream, also for wealthy black communities. misogyny, Racism and oppression are rampant regardless of (many times) social status or zeros in the bank account. a powerful voice, awarded the National Book Award and that makes us reflect and become aware of the place of enunciation. ALODIA CLEMENTE (The Red)

Each one on their own and God against everyone
Werner Herzog · Blakie books
When so many things happen to you in life, It seems easy to write an autobiography like this. Werner Herzog presents himself as a simple wanderer of places and legends, walker among other men. The author of Fitzcarraldo accompanies us from his miserable childhood in post-war Germany to his success as a director, all of this truffled with a rich anecdote that gives an account of his peculiar personality. Actually, more than a biography, this is a travel book. Very entertaining. G.LEON

The hutch
Tess Gunty · Sixth floor
The Hutch is an affordable housing complex in Vacca Vale, a city in the American Midwest in decline after being left without industry that will see the resplendent nature of its valley devoured by the construction of luxury apartments and technological headquarters. Blandine lives here, a lonely and marginal young woman of high abilities (obsessed with the mystical Hildegard of Bingen) whose reflections on the pettiness of social media, The consent, abuses of power, The current capitalist system and the black future have no waste. She's not smart enough to lead a revolution., but he is very aware that we need a. S.M.

Married and silent
Emma Zafón Empuriabrava
Married and silent it is a novel that sometimes reads like a chronicle, sometimes as a kind of thriller. Like a chronicle of an era, for the amount of detail and information it provides about women's lives at a given time, the seventies and eighties, and about the contrast between the rural area of ​​Llucena and the industrial area of ​​Alcora and other towns. Like a thriller, for all the tension that the story entails and for the skill with which the author has dosed the facts and recreated the atmosphere and the psychological asphyxiation that surrounds the protagonists. Zafón has written a novel where he suggests more than he says directly, and where does the anxiety go? growing up from the beginning to the end. A successful and insightful story. read it! LOURDES TOLEDO

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Books February 2024

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