Books January 2023

Graphic route. The sound design of Valencia
Moy Santana and Antonio José Albertos · Barlin Books · 2022
At the beginning of the eighties, a subculture flourished in Valencia that, on his journey from the purest underground until its consolidation as a mass phenomenon, would end up causing important reverberations at the national level. We talk about what was known on the street as “the cod route”. Barlin Libros publishes an impressive collection of some of the graphic material that accompanied this cultural universe, materials that, besides, were designed by some of the most important graphic and creative designers in the country who generated, in turn, a graphic culture that is still visible in our city. JAIME ORTEGA (Per-r-ucho)

lunar archives
Flavita Banana · Astiberri · 2022
I have always thought that only intelligent people have enough inner light and mental clarity to have a sense of humor and I think I am not wrong.. Lunar Archives is a compilation of humorous vignettes by Flavita Banana where, with acid humor and without condescension, portrays today's society (sexist, capitalist, superficial, racist and adultcentric), always, with a little bit of hope. A book that jumps from paper to consciousness. ALODIA CLEMENTE (The Red)

The kings of the house
Delphine de Vigane Anagram · 2022
Disturbing and prophetic, The kings of the house It is a novel that begins as a thriller to end up developing a thesis on the dangers of families influencers and children's exposure to social networks. Delphine de Vigane shows us a blushing reality that, like fiction, It is almost implausible, revealing the hidden side of the part (in appearance) most innocent on the internet. ESTELA SANCHIS (Bangarang)

Subject of Valencia
Vincent Baydal · shipyard · 2022
Vicent Baydal brings together a series of very diverse historical researches (of the origin of the Valencian symbol of the feathered rat to the Valencian slaves of Adolf Hitler), which often remain in academic papers, with an informative touch, to explain what the Valencian people are, where it comes from, which facts have shaped it and which origins explain it. A book with surprising facts and characters from our history. XAVIER BENAVENT

The fleeting shadows
Christian Guay-Poliquin · Volcano editorial · 2022
With echoes of survival novels in nature (The road o Bad weather), The French novelist Christian Guay-Poliquin once again impacts us after his wonderful The weight of the snow. In The fleeting shadows Lone man crosses a forest towards the camp where his family has taken shelter after a widespread power outage. A boy crosses his path who seems not to be afraid of anything.. They will inhabit the forest and a world where nothing will be like before. It is survival in an environment that has been foreign to us., full of hostilities, where they will question the sense of community and where they will have to learn what it means to live within nature and with itself. LIGHTS ROMERO

Ducks, Newburyport
Lucy Ellmann · Automatic Editorial · 2022
Ducks, Newburyport takes us into the head of a housewife who prepares sweets while rambling about the world and her life: the death of his parents, his relationship with his eldest daughter, pollution, the proliferation of firearms in the United States… An ambitious story, experimental in form and superficially profound in portrait of American society. S.M.

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