Under this tremendous sun
Carlos Busqued · Anagram
It is an open secret that the finalist works for literary awards are usually the ones that really They are worth it, and this is no exception. The first and only novel by the late Carlos Busqued is a kind of version western psychedelic The Foreigner. Cetarti, a man submerged in the depths of existential emptiness, He arrives in Argentina to deal with the absurd consequences of the murder of his mother and brother. SAINTS LEMOINE (The Bathysphere)
clouds fall
Violaine Bérot · The Outskirts
Violaine Bérot, the celebrated author of like beasts, returns to invade bookstores with its magic. clouds fall It is a multi-voiced story about motherhood and postpartum depression., shared as a community experience. An event for a small town and for the entire reading public. A delight! ALODIA CLEMENTE (The Red)
Idioteces
Andrew Brooks · Barlin Books
In Idioteces, geographer and writer Andrew Brooks dissects the comparative fallacies that contaminate our everyday thinking: from the absurd competitions between brothers, until the rankings who presume to evaluate universities. Inviting us, So, to look beyond simple metaphors and reducing models that limit, in an alarmingly recurrent and daily way, our thinking. JAIME ORTEGA (Per-r-ucho)
good night
Isaac Rosa Six Barral
Isaac Rosa always discreetly transforms everyday experience. One feels, after reading good night, that those sleepless nights will never be the same again, that everything observed about habits (own and others) around rest and its lack, will return to grip or numb us, as our luck comes. ESTELA SANCHIS (Bangarang)
He grew up
Maria Beneyto shipyard
He grew up it is a work of intense narrative, which tells us about marginalization and poverty, of disinherited characters who live badly and who are nevertheless able to resist. In post-war Valencia, in the middle of two floods, that of 1949 and the terrible and devastating of 1957. A tragic fate, which is recurrent and evokes recent events. A good opportunity to discover a great Valencian writer in the year of her centenary. GUSTAU MUÑOZ
Martyr!
Kaveh Akbar · Blackie Books
Simple and deep, Kaveh Akbar explains what ideas operate in the head of an alcoholic, How much racism an Iranian must swallow in the post-9/11 United States and how homosexual love can be disguised so as not to see it for what it is.. Martyr! tells the bizarre life of an Iranian living in the heart of the Yankee empire, the one who at the end of the Iran-Iraq war “by mistake” shot down a passenger plane, killing their 290 occupants. Among them, your mother? The unexpected final twist rounds off a novel about a boy who ponders the idea of getting rid of the burden of living and turning his death into something useful.. S.M.
