Given the circumstances
Paco Inclán Joke & Jill · 2020
Paco Inclán returns to the fray with another traveling book. A tour to the country of Esperanto [locked in a museum], a walk through Havana in search of the joke that killed a nineteenth-century writer, the encounter with the last speaker of the linguistic hybrid between Romani and Basque, a visit to the Prague tavern and a long etcetera of improbable situations and places for a new book by the always essential editor of the sleepy magazine Yawn. JAIME ORTEGA (Per(r)ear)
In the distance
Hernan Diaz Obstacles · 2020
All western drink from tradition, of the places, the spaces or the characters that turn it into a myth, but in In the distance all that goes further. Hernán Díaz takes us by the hand of a Swedish immigrant who is looking for his brother in a United States in full swing due to the gold rush and the creation of the railroad., everyone was going west. It tells us about uprooting and migration and turns the genre on its head while its protagonist walks in the opposite direction to the masses.. LIGHTS ROMERO (Bartleby)
Through
Tom Haugomat · She beeped · 2020
Masterfully told without words, but through a series of moving images full of beauty and melancholy, Through follows the life of a boy who dreams of being an astronaut. A universal story of dreams, amor, joys and sorrows in which to see ourselves reflected. through your eyes, and what they see, We attend all the main stages of your life, and ours. F.MARTIN
Harmless
Manuel Jabois · Alfaguara · 2019
We do not reveal anything new by saying that Manuel Jabois is a great storyteller. It doesn't matter whether it's a journalistic chronicle or a novel., how are you Harmless in which we discover, with the protagonist child, Tambu, that what he feels towards his friend Elvis is different. Even, exciting. And that adults hide things that children inevitably end up intuiting. The end of the story, All the little pills that Jabois has left will take on a new meaning. S.M.
I'm going to talk about Sarah
Pauline Delabroy-Allard · Lumen · 2019
I'm going to talk about Sarah tells an unexpected love story. Passionate, of crazy love. Between two women who until then have only had heterosexual relationships. The meeting, falling in love, the passion, the need... all told at a fast-paced pace based on short sentences (especially at the beginning) that look like notes from Sarah's violin. After, everything is slower now: the distancing, the disease, depression… This first novel by Pauline Delabroy-Allard, latest revelation of French literature, was one step away from winning the prestigious Goncourt prize in 2018. S.M.
