Panic at dawn
Denneth Cook · Sakhalin editors · 2020
Sakhalin reissued Panic at dawn, haunting classic of Australian literature from the 1990s 60. A crime novel in which an orgy of violence and action is unleashed. Also the film inspired by the book and titled Wake in fight, presented in Cannes in 1971, deserves a review. A good dose of cathartic literature to delve into the disturbing 2021. JAIME ORTEGA (PER-R-UCHO)
The plains
Federico Falco · Anagram · 2020
It's a kind of bookseller's open secret.: You have to read the finalists of the Herralde award. This year, he (almost) winner is Federico Falco, and his novel is the ideal reading to start the 2021. The Plains It's a novel/diary, obsessed with detail, evocative and illuminated, that paints a delicate portrait of waiting, loneliness and memory. SAINTS LEMOINE (THE BATHYSPHERE)
Longing for roots
Has Sarton · Black Rooster · 2020
Buy a country house, that's what May Starton did in the fifties. A house with a life of its own where the garden functions as a space and metaphor for the beauty that home offers through friendship, nature and writing. Some living memories, that is Longing for roots. LIGHTS ROMERO (BARTLEBY)
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donkey belly
Andrea Abreu · Barrett · 2020
It is donkey belly by Andrea Abreu was one of the literary surprises of 2020. with a language dirty and colloquial, Abreu's debut tells us the story of friendship between two girls in the midst of sexual awakening who live in a poor neighborhood on the upper slopes of Teide., far from the long-awaited beach that wealthy visitors colonize. and portrays, far from clichés, the Canary Islands built by the daughters of hotel cleaners, not the ones that sun and beach tourists enjoy. A daring book, fresh and sharp. AU
How we have changed
Juan Sanguino Peninsula · 2020
Can the history of an entire country be explained through its pop culture?? According to Juan Sanguino, can. He defends that, If the United States explains itself through Hollywood and the United Kingdom through politics, us, In Spain, we have done it through television. And the Mama Chicho dances have happened there, Sabrina's tit, he show of the Alcásser crime (“the loss of innocence of Spanish society”), David Beckham's metrosexuality and Raphael's baroqueism overturning traditional masculinity long before the English, the white hands of the spirit of Ermua, a brunette and rocker Shakira who turned blonde to make the leap to the Anglo-Saxon world and start howling, the Barcelona Olympic Games, the outpouring of emotions of Belén Esteban (“the most relevant person in Spain”), the sentimental songs about abstract love from Van Gogh's La Oreja sung by a generation convinced that everything was already done and the musical reality television program that provided the soundtrack to the “Spain is going well” society., Operation Triumph. How we have changed It is a light-hearted and interesting analysis of different elements of pop culture., national and international, that have penetrated the collective imagination and have been exploited in some way as an ideological tool. AU
