The jungle sky
Elaine Vilar Madruga · LAVA · 2023
The third novel by the Cuban Elaine Vilar Madruga published in Spain has once again achieved the unanimity of critics as one of the best proposals of the 2023. Different female voices coexist and confront an insatiable jungle that demands its young in The jungle sky, a disturbing narrative, terribly cruel at times , what, however, does not let go of the reader until the last page. ESTELA SANCHIS (Bangarang)
Irene's autobiography
Silvina Ocampo Lumen · 2023
There is a lot of talk, but little is read, to one of the absolute masters of the short story and the new: Silvina Ocampo. After years in editorial limbo, his work, finally, returns to the bookstores. The Autobiography of Irene It is perhaps the best way to delve into his work.: five limpid and apparently frugal stories that hide in their lines the border between what is real and what is imagined. SAINTS LEMOINE (The Bathysphere)
Fe, hope and carnage
Nick Cave · Sixth floor · 2024
Nick Cave opens up to journalist Seán O'Hagan and together they take a tour of the vital variables that worry them both: faith, music art, Freedom, grief and love. Cave dives candidly into his life, from his early childhood to the present, in his loves, his work ethic and the profound transformation that his existence has undergone in recent years. Fe, hope and carnage It is an essential book for those of us who admire this character.. JAIME ORTEGA (Per-r-ucho)
Of a lost battle
Svetlana Aleksiévich (Illustrated by Arnal Ballester) · Nordic Books · 2024
How lucky we are that Nórdica Libros has this line of illustrated! Short essays or short novels by the most relevant authors in a careful edition, Illustrated and hardcover, ideal for collecting and gifting. In January they published Of a lost battle to get closer to the great Belarusian journalist Svetlana Aleksievich, collect the short but powerful speech, full of sincerity, bravery and rage, which he pronounced upon receiving the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2015. A few words that portray the geopolitical situation of the countries that were part of the USSR that cannot be forgotten. ALODIA CLEMENTE (The Red)
We had a hymn at home
Maria Clement · The other editorial · 2023
A mother and two very different daughters, family and personal traumas, life as condemnation or liberation, deeply hidden secrets that are revealed, a catharsis. Maria Clement (Amposta, 1985) has created a novel full of rhythm and tension, with touches of humor, set in the Terres de l'Ebre, written in a very Valencian Catalan. It cannot be left… It will catch you. GUSTAU MUÑOZ
Fortuna
Hernan Diaz Anagram · 2023
The financier Andrew Bevel triggered the crash of the 29 that led the United States into the Great Depression while he became one of the richest men on the planet. This is the portrait of him in a recently published novel by Harold Vanner, so he has decided to hire the daughter of an Italian anarchist, Ida Departure, so that he can write a replica book that whitens his story and cleanses the image of his deceased wife, Mildred Bevel. Four voices make up Hernán Díaz's puzzle about the creation of capitalism in the United States: that of Vanner criticizing Bevel's financial goings-on in his book, this one defending in his unfinished autobiography that business is a form of patriotism, that of Ida telling the complicated process of writing the replica book and that of Mildred Bevel, who hits the table from the grave revealing surprising secrets in his diaries. Vanner begins by narrating how the great fortune of a family of financiers who knew how to successfully navigate the New York of merchants and industrialists was created, taking advantage of moments of crisis.. A fortune that was perpetuated throughout the chain of inheritance and grew exponentially by dedicating itself to buying and selling aire on the vaporous and unproductive financial floor, raffling (enabling) the crack debacle 29. “None of those who had contributed to inflating the bubble felt responsible for its bursting.”. "They were the innocent victims of a disaster that almost seemed natural.", said Vanner. Bevel takes over, obsessively repeating that personal benefit and the common good are two sides of the same coin.. Besides, the market is always right, those who try to control them never have it. At the end, the voices of the writer hired to write the reply to Vanner's book and the tycoon's wife appear to dot the i's in this exciting narrative that confirms what President Coolidge said.: “The business of America is business”. S.M.
