WITH RAGE
Lorenza Mazzetti · Peripheral · 2017
Lorenza Mazzetti wrote in 1963 this autobiographical novel about adolescence and not just any one. When she was orphaned, she was adopted by her uncles Nina Mazzetti and Robert Einstein., Albert's cousin, that they would be murdered by the SS along with the entire family in retaliation for the physicist's exile to the United States. So it narrates a very hard post-war youth, with the rage and exaggeration typical of age. What it means to be a woman, doubts and fears when discovering sex, the belief in God after barbarism and the feeling of individual and collective guilt for not having done anything against the Nazis are some of the topics on which Penny, transcript of the author herself, reflects throughout that “atrocious age”, “Ungrateful and distressing that youth is.”. S.M.
THE HAND THAT FEEDS YOU
A.J. Rich · Maeva · 2017
The protagonist of this psicothriller It's Morgan, who one day meets Bennett, her fiancé of Canadian origin brutally murdered. Initial suspicions will fall on your pets, a Great Pyrenees and two pitbulls. But throughout history, secrets will be revealed that will make us wonder if we really know the people closest to us.. GINÉS J. VERA
THE WOMEN IN THE CASTLE
Jessica Shattuck · Line · 2017
Women in the Castle tells the story of three German widows – Marianne, Benita and Ania – who barricaded themselves in a castle to survive the hard years that followed their country's defeat in World War II and keep their children safe. Shattuck makes us understand how Nazism was forged and came to have so many sympathizers with a novel that talks about self-deception, responsibility, culpa, shame about the past and the implicit search for forgiveness. S.M.
THE STREETS AND THEIR HISTORY
Luis Fernandez shipyard · 2017
Street names are neither innocent nor circumstantial., Since the mid-19th century they have been used as a political instrument to disseminate ideas and values of the prevailing regime., changing color but always sexist (there are hardly any streets named after women). This is the basic idea that emerges from a book that talks about kings, alcaldes, nobles and illustrious literati, but also from horticulturists, neighbors of Cabanyal, guilds, the crew of a soviet freighter, athletes and astronomers who have become part of our gazetteer.
ART, REVENGE AND PROPAGANDA
Arturo Colorado Chair · 2018
In September 1936, The government of the Republic evacuated a large part of the National Artistic Treasure to Valencia to put it safe: The Serranos and Patriarca towers hosted a good number of works. After the end of the war, The rebels turned the return of the Treasury to Madrid into a propaganda campaign. Arturo Colorado has studied the episode with rigor and care. Rafa Martínez
KING KONG THEORY
Virginie Despentes · Random House · 2018
With a direct and raw style, Virginie Despentes reflects on her life and experiences in relation to the feminist struggle and gender issues. The French woman does not bite her tongue when talking about rape, prostitution or femininity, while analyzing our society and its way of acting from patriarchal positions. Essential and challenging, Theory of Kong It is configured as a key and cult work of feminist literature.. EVA PONS
