Malina
Ingeborg Bachmann · Nordic
On the centenary of the birth of Ingeborg Bachmann, a European literary star and the most important author that Austria has produced in the 20th century, Nórdica couldn't stop celebrating by publishing Malina. A novel about the psychological strength of women facing patriarchal violence in post-war Vienna (and not only then). A call to female resilience. ALODIA CLEMENTE (The Red)
Mother Night
Kurt Vonnegut · Blackie Books
Blackie Books continues its work Vonnegutian, returning the novels of the enormous American author to the news tables. In Mother night, Vonnegut tells us the story of a Yankee double agent who assumes the role of propagandist in Nazi Germany. A role that he plays so well that it ends up being monstrously convincing and ends up destroying his identity., his morals and his life. SAINTS LEMOINE (The Bathysphere)
Raw material
Jörg Fauser · Sajalín
Originally published more than forty years ago and unpublished until now in Spanish, Raw material It is a cult novel that draws on the life experience of its controversial author.. Jörg Fauser was a free spirit who challenged the German literary establishment by navigating between literature and that extreme counterculture that took over the fantasy Europe of the seventies.. A Europe that, hoy, Unfortunately, It seems only the distant memory of an almost forgotten dream. JAIME ORTEGA (Per-r-ucho)
Animal print
Irene Cuevas Reservoir Books
In Animal print, Irene Cuevas turns the print into a beautiful and sad metaphor: shed skin to fit, disguise yourself as normal until you end up believing that you are the monster. The stories, united by the common thread of difference, They talk about growing up feeling strange and discover that the monstrous was never inside, but in the eyes of others. And in the face of all that, she brings a revolutionary nuance: reclaim tenderness as a form of resistance. Because wild animals also need to be loved. Just as they are. MAMEN MONSORIU (Bookshop The Empire)
The borders
Carolina Sarmiento Siruela
In The borders we will meet in the near future, where humanity decides to abandon half the planet so that nature can recover. The novel follows a border guard who, for a single day, watch that boundary between the human and the wild. In that territory in tension, faces ethical and personal dilemmas about what it means to protect life. A story that combines ecological dystopia and intimate conflict to question the place of human beings in the world. LIGHTS ROMERO
The hare and me
Chloe Dalton · Asteroid Books
During the confinement of 2021, Chloe Dalton found an abandoned baby in the English countryside and decided to take care of it, despite the enormous difficulties involved in raising a wild hare. Over the years, Living with the animal profoundly transforms your way of looking at the world and nature.. In The hare and me, Dalton weaves personal memory, animal observation and the cultural history of hares with literature and art. The result is a delicate and revealing story about amazement, the link with the wild and the unexpected forms of company. LIGHTS ROMERO
Valencianitat for the curious
Cristian H. Lawrence · It seems
Open the first book of Cristian H. Llorens is like walking through the streets of a Valencian town and sitting for a while in a crowd of neighbors chatting outside on a summer night. Fill del cradle of the orange, Curiosaire (in the networks) tells us, with sweet and sour notes, funny stories, interesting and other well-known ones that are hidden from north to south of the Valencian Country, using rich language, fresh and very ours. What it doesn't do is blow into iced broth. Valencian culture, with their deep-rooted customs, indigenous expressions and the changes we undergo in the face of the challenges of today's world, they give reasons to the author to write such a book valencianot with phrases and sayings inherited from grandma Tonica. Núria Albelda
At sea
Emma Zafon · Empuriabrava
Emma Zafon (Lucena, 1987 ) makes an immersion in reality with At sea, his second novel. After leaving us stone with Married and silent (2023), the journalist and writer returns with a family story, set again in terrain he knows well. With literary talent, an agile and admirable rhythm, a little "bad milk" and a lot of sense of humor, creates a narrative that penetrates hitherto unexplored subjects: the idiosyncrasy of the people of the Castellon villages, a way of being and living, nuanced in each town, but also connected by a language and customs. In addition to the backdrop: the tile crisis and the political quagmire of manufacturing. And even beyond all that, a portrait, between costume designer and caricature, taking the best of everything, about family conflicts, the mediocrity of some marriages, the sexual frustrations and the feeling of belonging that end up marking lives, for better or for worse. LOURDES TOLEDO
Maus today (a selection of texts)
Hillary Chute · Reservoir Books
If you think that Maus by Art Speigelman is the masterpiece of world comics, This volume brings you closer to it with an integrative perspective. From its very conception (autobiography or fiction?) and its narrative, to the conflicts that its author faced, Maus today reinforces, through several articles, the idea that Hillary Chute maintains in her introduction: Maus It is a text that never ends. G.LEON
Yesteryear
Caro Claire Burke · AdN
If you don't explain how it is possible that the figure of the translator, Yesteryear it's for you. You will still not understand it, but you will have a good time entering his ranch of yesteryear, in the middle of nowhere, where vegetables are organic, Motherhood is a blessing and children play happily and carefree.. A big lie built in front of the cameras to monetize a mediocre life. S.M.
Instruction of novices
Ana Garriga and Carmen Urbita Blackie Books
In the midst of a resurgence of spirituality (like makeup, at least), between the disk Lux of a Rosalía with a halo and the religious vocation of the teenager who stars in the film Sundays, Blackie Books opens the door to baroque convents. The academics Ana Garriga and Carmen Urbita had already discovered to us long before the incredible world of the nuns of the 16th and 17th centuries in the podcast Felipe's daughters and in Instruction of novices they put their stories down on paper, linking them with popular culture and with their own lives as doctoral students at Brown University. Nuns serve to explain everything that afflicts us in this individualistic world: job, amor, money, fame and friendship, maybe, the central axis of the book, for being the glue that unites our authors and nuns like María de San José and Santa Teresa de Jesús, who ended up as bad as Lindsay Lohan and Paris Hilton. Friendships aside, What can happen if you cloister a group of women outside the watchful eye of the heteropatriarchy?? Saint Teresa already warned, in 1567, of the dangerous possibility of “particular friendships” arising among his barefoot Carmelites. They already have my full attention, Now I just want to keep reading about these women who levitated, they fell in love, they bilocated and started like the ones who most. S.M.
Garden
Hiroko Oyamada · Obstacles
In the thirteen stories that make up Garden, de Hiroko Oyamada, nature is never far away. With clean but ambiguous writing, the author takes us from a zoo to a hospital room; from a high school to a city apartment. And everywhere, either in the form of rice paddy or grasshopper, lo natural, the wild, witness human actions. Far from being domesticated, The nature described by Oyamada conditions and sometimes directs people's lives..
Oyamada describes from the sensory and the spaces are configured through the perception of the characters. Does not explain the shape of objects, but the sensations they transmit: the hardness of a futon, the temperature of a room, the glow of a light bulb. His prose is not explanatory, but environmental. Read the stories of Garden is to enter a cryptic and dreamlike universe that unfolds between temporary ellipses by surprise and voices that intertwine like roots..
The marriage, in-laws and the pressure to procreate appear again and again. The Oyamada gardens are microuniverses that define their owners and serve as a metaphor for motherhood and care.. The pregnancies that appear in the book turn the protagonist wives into a plant-woman that not only blooms as in spring myths and ensures the continuity of life., but takes care of grandparents and in-laws and shows his love in everyday actions.
They are women who realize that children take up space, physical and vital: in several stories, A young couple is looking for a bigger house due to the imminent arrival of a baby that will change their lives and whom they will mold as they wish., just as a plant is grafted to produce flowers of one color or another. These children are narrators and protagonists in Garden. Oyamada insists on the link between children and nature and describes an innate complicity and connection. In Garden, children take refuge from boredom in the greenery, They study plants and animals with almost scientific rigor and take the garden home in their pockets, sometimes with unexpected consequences.
The wild inside the house in the form of a domestic spider, turtles locked in pairs in a cage and forced to reproduce, roads that go through forests and that do not appear on the GPS and tadpoles that eat frogs in a kind of logical family cannibalism, They are elements of the disturbing atmosphere that Hiroko Oyamada builds in her stories., in which nature sneaks in everywhere and lurks before taking the reins. ELENA P. MURIANA
