When there is no one left
Esther López Barceló Sow Books · 2024
This month's recommendation has a trick. Let us know! This is the translation of the book When there is no one left that Esther López Barceló published in Spanish last year. Why we recommend this book that we already recommended last year? very easy! Because it is a joy to have it translated into our language by a local author, the story of which takes place in Alicante and which recovers the intra-history of the women who suffered and fought from invisibility in the Spanish Civil War. A repair in every sense. ALODIA CLEMENTE (The Red)
The last sentence
Camila Cañeque · The Broken Nail · 2024
Personal essay part, part philosophical meditation and part intertextual poetry, The last sentence is composed of the 452 last sentences of various literary works. Camila Cañeque has achieved something profoundly innovative: a book that defies genres, and that boldly focuses on ends as gateways to the true nature of life, art and death. SAINTS LEMOINE (The Bathysphere)
Anna Thalberg
Eduardo Sangarcía Editorial Map · 2024
One morning Anna Thalberg is torn from her hut., locked up and tortured by men who accuse her of witchcraft to the desperation of her husband, who tries in vain to free her. With a formal expertise that surprises, that flows from the first paragraph, Eduardo Sangarcía narrates the torment of a woman cornered by men of God who condemn her to death for the fact of being one. ESTELA SANCHIS (Bangarang)
Atlas of remote sounds
Victor Terrazas Menguantes · 2024
There are melodies with specific geographical resonances. The territory, the weather, Rituals and customs leave their mark in the form of songs. Atlas of remote sounds It is a proposal from the very interesting Leonese publishing house Menguantes. Ludovico Einaudi's piano chords on an iceberg, the yoik songs that inspired Björk or punk from the coldest city in the world occur in this book as authentic as it is strange. JAIME ORTEGA (Per-r-ucho)
The candy house
Jennifer Egan · Salamander · 2023
A dystopian future but absolutely plausible because it is based on our current tendency to give away private life without knowing very well in exchange for what.. That describes Jennifer Egan —Pulitzer Prize winner for her previous novel Time is a scoundrel— in this artifact distinguished by The New York Times as one of the best books 2022. In The candy house stories about algorithms capable of regulating human behavior intersect, computer systems that recover memories and the unconscious to download them into a Collective Consciousness and Internet defections of a few rebels. To leave floating in the air a fundamental question: In terms of technology, every progress is a loss? S.M.
Màtria or barbarism. Thirty voices of Catalan feminism
Júlia Ojeda Caba, Anna Punsoda Ricat and Marta Roqueta-Fernández (eds) · Angle Editorial · 2024
A collective book where thirty women from all over the Catalan-speaking territories, born between 1980 and the 2000, they raise their voices from various professional and vital areas to speak about their rights. Alcen sees it as peasants, political scientists, businesswomen, trade unionists, believers, atheists... experts in very heterogeneous fields, aware that to build a matrix, complementary to a homeland, every voice is necessary. All of them declare themselves heirs to a long tradition of artists, intellectuals and activists who wanted to reconcile feminism and nationalism, all the while resignifying it to favor a new way of understanding life in common. That is to say, another way of doing politics, more inclusive and faithful to the different social pulses, and to dialogue with society as a whole. LOURDES TOLEDO
