SMALL COUNTRY
Gael Faye · Salamander · 2018
The novella of the French singer Gaël Faye, A small country, recounts a childhood in a Burundian who is about to experience a sad and well-known genocide. Gabriel's life, a mestizo boy, is made of small happiness until the arrival of ethnic violence that will put him in front of the madness and horror of adults. The reader, thanks to the simplicity and lucidity of G's writing. Faye, find the sensations of childhood again, in addition to accompanying Gabriel in the search for a small country, that is to say, of a common utopian space of citizenship where state or social borders would not exist. B.L.
IT SEEMS LIKE A LIE
Juan del Val · Espasa · 2017
Seems like a lie It is the story of a boy from a humble Madrid neighborhood. Uninhibited and bold, tells us openly, in short and intense chapters, with an outstanding sense of humor, how has it been “mature” and what he has learned from women, your true calling. GINÉS J. VERA
A DISPOSESSED WOMAN
Shobha Rao · Alfaguara · 2017
When the Indian subcontinent officially separated into two countries, India and Pakistan, these twelve heartbreaking events take place, provocative and fierce stories of A dispossessed woman: a young prostitute silently plans her terrible revenge, An elderly woman remembers what she had to do for her baby and a thirteen-year-old widow faces her future when her husband is presumed dead.. GLORIA POZUELO
THE NEW WOMAN
VY.AA. Twowhiskers · 2017
The writer and translator Gloria Fortún – who already participated in a book by Dosbigotes, Open me carefully, fictionalizing the life of Aphra Behn – has compiled the ten stories by 19th century American writers that make up The new woman. In the prologue, she herself introduces and contextualizes these ten authors who navigated an androcentric and patriarchal literary tradition and denounced, more or less veiled, the oppressive machismo that permeated, from small gestures and banal comments, even the most vital matters. The slavery of marriage (Kate Chopin), women abused by their partners (Susan Glaspell, Pulitzer Prize in 1930), the lack of sorority (Sui Sin Far), the imposition of roles (Sarah Orne Jewett), the maternal instinct and finding a partner as the main goal in life (Charlotte Perkins Gilman, one of the main theorists of the feminist movement in the United States), the constant judgment to which women are subjected for their physical appearance, for wanting to work or for not taking good care of their children are some of the topics discussed in the form of stories in which the desire for female independence appears.. S.M.
ABSENCE IS BETTER
Edurne Portela · Galaxia Gutenberg · 2017
After your fabulous essay The echo of the shots, Edurne Portela turns to pure and simple novels, but still walking on the same terrain of ETA violence in Euskadi. The sweet Amaia becomes cracked over the years due to the difficult social and family environment in which she grows up., stained with violence, drug, alcoholism, terrorism, jail, ostracism, escapes and guilt in which each one survives as best he can. S.M.
DAVID HOCKNEY. LOVE LIFE
Jean Frémon · Elba · 2017
Jean Frémon is a writer versed in art, amen gallerist. He has written about other artists such as Tàpies, Sean Scully the Plensa. In this small volume three of his texts on David Hockney are collected, an artist whom he shows he knows well and whom, in fact, know personally. Besides, Frémon demonstrates insight when approaching the Englishman's work. Highly recommended. Rafa Martínez
EAT WELL TODAY, LIVE BETTER TOMORROW
Henry Joyeaux · Planeta · 2017
The French doctor, expert in nutrition and cancer, Henry Joyeaux, is the author of the book Eat well today, live better tomorrow that the Planeta publishing house has published in Spanish. Joyeaux was a professor of Medicine at the University of Montpellier in addition to having worked for years as an oncologist and digestive surgeon.. He is currently the author of an extensive scientific and popular bibliography. Eat well today, live better tomorrow It has helped many people eat healthily.. The book addresses with rigor and simplicity a wide variety of topics related to food, including the relationship between it and some diseases.. Among the tips and recommendations are to reduce our dairy consumption, increase fruit, vegetables and whole grains or cook at low temperature to preserve vitamins. The book also emphasizes the relationship between diet and cancer., one of the pathologies that could be drastically reduced by improving our eating habits. Recommended reading for those who want to make their diet their best medicine. GINÉS J. VERA
