The bosses
Esther García-Llovet · Anagram
Reading Esther García-Llovet is immersing yourself in the contradictions of our territory. in comedy, he thriller, he kitsch and the energy that the sun gives off from our landscapes… and its heat. The bosses It is totally addictive because nothing that happens, no matter how extreme, misses us. Esther is Valencian at heart and head. ALOIDA CLEMENTE (The Red)
The ridiculous age
Maryam Madjidi · Lower case
The ridiculous age is a fascinating story by the Iranian-born writer Maryam Madjidi about a key aspect of our time.: Does the West still function as a balm of freedom in a dark world? The protagonist of this story wanders through a France that, Of course, It looks less and less like that idealized West to which the author's parents emigrated a few decades ago.. An extremely useful read for these strange times.. JAIME ORTEGA (Per-r-ucho)
hunting dogs
Borja Navarro Malastierras
At last! From the author of our favorite book 2023 —the novel in stories Shoulder—, arrives hunting dogs, the chronicle in code western of a deep Spain, loaded with violence. in which, prose and poetry, the bestial and the human, the extraordinary and the everyday, and facts and fictions merge into a single wild and pestilent reality. SAINTS LEMOINE (The Bathysphere)
The Gaza Bookseller
Rachid Petrol · Salamander
Nabil Al Djabir, the bookseller of Gaza, He gives Julien the story that will accompany the photograph he is about to take of him.. A history marked by bombs and silence, where books become refuge: the written word, ally; reading, trench. Getting up day after day and opening your bookstore is a daily act of resistance: a way to fight. What can only be understood from within will not be understood from the outside.. MAMEN MONSORIU (Empire Bookstore)
flammable material
Rosa Ramirez Raft
flammable material collects the thoughts of a Hispanic student who, Coming from the lowest backgrounds, of a house with a tin roof, She ends up with a scholarship at a prestigious American university to which she feels she does not belong.. Between manic delusions caused by excessive consumption of alcohol and drugs, realizes how horrible it is to be in college if you're not rich or white. You have to be a warrior or at least pretend to be, no one can know how fragile you are, how imposter you feel. The class goes through this crude story in which the only friend the protagonist has left within the university world turns out to be the cleaner., Beverly. “There are so many white people in this place that even the people who cook and clean are white.”. S.M.
The damn obsession with climbing mountains
Jon Krakauer · geoPlanet
A first work made based on essays and articles by the author who would later sign the film Towards wild routes. Jon Krakauer is able to end the mysticism surrounding mountaineering while feeding it through the back door. Climb mountains in the Alps and Himalayas, frozen waterfalls in Alaska, or smooth walls in Yosemite and not dying trying is epic when a handful of adventurers do it, always moved by the ego. But they only go for glory when the weather report is kind because the mountaineer is often forced to spend days and days locked up and bored between the damp nylon walls of a tent without being able to do absolutely anything.. Y Krakauer, he also tells you, and expands the focus so that we see the small plane pilots who take the mountaineers to the most inaccessible glaciers, to the equipment manufacturers who made ice climbing possible and to the surveyors who accurately measured the height of the mountains. The damn obsession with climbing mountains is a book that eviscerates a sport obsessed with the most difficult yet: climb the highest mountain, the least conquered, the most difficult face, the deadliest route, in the least benevolent season of the year, solo, sin material… Absurd obsession or glorious epic, depending on how you look at it. S.M.
