The parachutist
Ana Campoy · The Outskirts
The multi-award-winning author of children's literature gives us, on this occasion, a fantastic novel for adult audiences set in Spain's recent past. Ana Campoy vindicates still open wounds and shouts silenced truths. One more time, Las Afueras publishes a jewel for our nightstand. ALODIA CLEMENTE (The Red)
First there was the sea
Tomas Gonzalez Sixth floor
Sixth Floor brings us the first novel by the author of The difficult light forty years after its original publication. Elena y J. They move to a small house in a remote place near the sea trying to get away from a disordered life in the city. But the dream breaks, debts grip, the weather becomes merciless, and we witness little by little the total destruction of that promise. ESTELA SANCHIS (Bangarang)
slow days, bad companies
Eve Babitz · Bruxist Collective
The Bruxist Collective brings to the Spanish-speaking world one of the essential works of Eve Babitz, voice, witness and spirit of Los Angeles in the sixties and seventies. Through ten luminous and intoxicating vignettes, Babitz paints a stark and evocative portrait of the city, and unravel the secrets of the capital of the superficial. SAINTS LEMOINE (The Bathysphere)
The song of the machines
Sherwood Anderson · Berlin
Halfway between journalistic chronicle and story, the twelve articles that make up The song of the machines They summarize human weaknesses in the face of the empire of technology. Sherwood Anderson exposes the pains of a generation disoriented by the advent of an unknown world. As he himself says in the work: “Modern industry is like war. It's war. The individual lacks value.". JAIME ORTEGA (Per-r-ucho)
Correspondent from nowhere
Júlia Bacardit · portico
Imagine living the full freedom of movement in Barcelona or Valencia, with independence and more or less precarious jobs, from ram editorial. And that one day they offer you to be an agency correspondent in Romania. And accept. Romania and Europe, but different. You encounter otherness and personal weathering. Júlia Bacardit - who writes bluntly - moves away and finds herself again, and at the same time offers us a living portrait, enormously perceptive, of today's Romania - a country near and also far away - and also of his personal situation… An absorbing read. GUSTAU MUÑOZ
Field
Pau Luque · Anagram
When a crossword puzzle asks you about a two-letter antelope, the answer is always “wildebeest”. It's obvious and, therefore, the solution to a problem you don't really have. Pau Luque thinks about this in a book made of apparently unconnected fragments, about why humans need solutions. Use philosophical reflections and literary references, but she lightens them with the conversations she has with a friend about the book you are reading., with his adventures through Genoa and with personal stories about love, language or identity. The bottom line is that we need certainty, solutions, because we do not tolerate uncertainty. But there is a second conclusion, that destroyed the very existence of this book (or not), and it is that, maybe, you don't have to think about things so much. S.M.
