Shifty's children
Chris Offutt · Sajalín · 2022
Shifty's children It is another novel starring the now legendary Mick Hardin, edited, one more time, by Sajalín in his collection Al Margin. Offutt's followers are in luck with a new country noir what, again, reveals the deep darkness that emanates from rural America. A world that, for a long time, It is an undeniable part of our conceptual landscape. JAIME ORTEGA (Per-r-ucho)
Mangrove Crossing
Maryse Condé · The Golden Needle · 2022
It's always good news when a publisher is born. The Spanish cultural world is shaking and refreshing. On this occasion, Besides, it's not a double, but a triple reason for joy: L'agulla daurada was born with a vocation to bring great literature closer to the public eager to read in Catalan masterpieces like the ones we now recommend. Traversa del mangrove is, surely, the lesser-known work of the extraordinary writer Maryse Condé. In it he narrates with mastery the daily life of the territories of France overseas, deeply marked by Western colonialism. A work delicate and sharp in equal parts. ALODIA CLEMENTE (The Red)
Weather without rain
Masterpiece
Juan Tallón Anagram · 2022
Masterpiece is a literary game by Juan Tallón that deliberately moves away from traditional formats. It's a novel, but also a report, a succession of interviews and research. The disappearance of a large sculpture weighing thirty-eight thousand kilos of polished steel by Richard Sierra on the property of the Reina Sofía Museum but guarded by a company that went bankrupt and of which there is no trace remains is being investigated.. Tallón builds the novel by displaying the thoughts and positions of the different actors related in some way to the matter.; of the artist in question, critics and art dealers, the museum director, the ministers of culture, the investigating judge of the case, the inspector of the Heritage Brigade or Tallón itself, that details the comings and goings in the gestation of the book. A literary exercise that discovers us, constantly mixing imagination and reality, the work and personality of Richard Sierra, the ins and outs of the art world and the ins and outs of an inexplicable disappearance that exposes many shames. S.M.
Song for big men
Rafa Cervera · Joke&Jill · 2022
Rafa Cervera's latest novel takes us back to El Saler, but as the last stop of a love lived far from conventions, without name or form. Told without sentimentality, rather with restraint, but deeply sentimental. Song for big men It is a story about the acceptance of homesexual drives at maturity after having lived a heteronormative relationship that was believed to be happy and fulfilling., about the bulk consumption of nameless bodies in an extension of the free market, about what is what we call eroticism and about the reconstruction of life outside the norm and guilt. Literature documenting findings on sexual orientation change, written to overcome the feeling of intrusion and reach the conclusion that there are many paths to reach pleasure and happiness. S.M.
Cooking with flowers
Iolanda Bustos Cossetania · 2022
The rural uprooting we suffer has lost the gastronomic wisdom of edible herbs and flowers. Fortunately, there are more and more authors, like the writer and cook Iolanda Bustos, that shed light on knowledge that not so long ago was passed down from generation to generation. inside Cooking with flowers we will find a list of more 200 edible flowers accompanied by exquisite recipes. XAVIER BENAVENT
The God's finger
Raquel Ricart · Bow · 2022
The God's finger, Raquel Ricart's latest novel is based on a valuable literary game of three female gazes boldly intertwined. A story written in the first person, although told by different and contrasting voices, and filled with intertwined stories. Around delicate and painful subjects, the language becomes harsh as the facts – such as cancer and or abuse – demand it. Throughout the novel, three very powerful women's voices alternate that dialogue from the same level. In fact, there is no one character that dominates or imposes itself on another. Not even the I over the other two. They are characters who control the story and are modulating it, characters that remain in the readers' memory, just like the details and delicate gestures behind Raquel Ricart's novels. LOURDES TOLEDO
What there is
Sara Torres Reservoir Books · 2022
“While mom was dying I was making love”. This is how this story begins in which Sara Torres has to constantly deal with contradictions and feelings that are difficult to swallow during the slow fading of a mother with cancer., falling in love with a third party within a polyamorous relationship and dealing with a stable relationship full of silences. Culpa, disorientation and conflict in the love story between a girl and her mother, Sincere, poetic and brave.
Body and paint workshop
Mestizorras · Barrett · 2022
Body and paint workshop It is a deliberately provocative book in substance and form.. It asks what would happen if women shook off their guilt and began to return the violence that is exercised against them in this era of networks and hyperconnectivity steeped in rape culture.. The book is also provocative in the way, looking out of the corner of his eye Easy reading by Cristina Morales combines voices, formats and genres without embarrassment. Anita, Ale and Ámbar know each other through sisterhood and end up becoming a group of influencers murderers, the mestizorras, that light the fuse of a global women's movement that does not want to continue acting peacefully to appease the rage. Besides, everything happens in the city of Valencia, one more protagonist of the novel with her funny and bizarre traditions, and its benefits too. Irony, reflection, Anger and humor are mixed in a narrative that questions what types of violence are bothersome and which have been normalized.. S.M.
I don't remember anything
Nora Ephron · Asteroid Books · 2022
With his usual cynical and casual tone, Nora Ephron posted this I don't remember anything to the 71 years, two before his death, as a farewell. A very funny memoir in which he writes easily (complicated thing) about the trivial and the painful in life, about failure in Hollywood and what it's like to get old. S.M.
Idaho
Emily Ruskovich Random House · 2022
A family enjoys a day in the mountains collecting firewood. While the mother cuts the small branches, the father stacks the logs. The girls entertain themselves by drinking lemonade and singing. Suddenly something brutal happens that will destroy the family forever.. Idaho It is a fascinating story about love, violence and memory. ESTELA SANCHIS
