Books November 2020

Sweet introduction to mayhem
Marta Orriols · Periscope Books · 2020
To the vibrant author of Anatomy of short distances i Learn to talk to plants returns to our shelves with a work in which he deepens, again, in the dynamics that make up today's society, personal relationships and the most intimate emotions of human beings. A reference writer of her generation, whose works are essential to know us. ALODIA CLEMENTE (THE RED)

Some dark and dangerous things. The book of the mask and the masked men
Servando Rocha · The Felguera · 2020
A century and a half of terror, magic, anarchy and masked! Some dark and dangerous things It is an alternative story to the official history of the world. This construction by the essential Servando Rocha constitutes a kind of fundamental initiation bible to search, with the more than pertinent excuse of the mask, among the terrors of forgotten culture. JAIME ORTEGA (PER-R-UCHO)

And now what do I do?

Andreu Escrivá · Captain Swing · 2020

We do not have a magic solution to climate change at our fingertips., but in this book by the Valencian environmentalologist and popularizer Andreu Escrivá we find the tools to activate ourselves and make changes in the face of unsustainability. We must be aware that the footprint we generate is enormous, powerful, and that, if we don't change our way of consumption, the problems will get bigger and bigger. LIGHTS ROMERO (BARTLEBY)

There is no way to escape

Boris Vian · Black Box · 2020

Boris Vian returns from the dead with a detective novel soaked in humor, Bourbon y jazz. Completed by members of the Oulipo collective and translated by Eduardo Berti, There is no way to escape gives us back the rhythm and frenzy of I will spit on your graves y Let the ugly die, and gives us one last dance with the enormous Boris Vian. SAINTS LEMOINE (THE BATHYSPHERE)

Like dust in the wind
Leonardo Padura Tusquets · 2020
Exciting journey through the recent history of Cuba through the lives of a group of friends who have survived a destiny of exile and dispersion. Leonardo Padura masterfully doses the constant intrigues, tracing the personal map of so many Cubans who left the island, although they stayed, and that they swore eternal love, although they left. AU

The unfortunate
Ariel the Great · Six Barral · 2020
If they weren't monsters, how could they do what they did? Ariel Magnus gets into the head of Nazi gyrfalcon Adolf Eichmann, the so-called “architect of the Holocaust”, to show how the unjustifiable is justified. He did his duty, obeyed orders, I had no choice, It was just a cog in the machinery, a robot... They are his reasons and he believes them, how to continue living if not? AU