Books October 2020

one love
Sara Mesa Anagram · 2020
We are faced with a novel full of taboos and transgressions, silences or prejudices, where the limit relationships between characters are protected by the power that is exercised and we exercise. In how that power, attached to language (as exclusion and difference, not as communication), articulates the steps of the protagonist and the community with which she interacts in a small rural area where she has just moved.. The resulting conflicts will increase. one love doesn't talk about love, rather of strangeness and incomprehension in a suffocating environment. Time, in the end, it's a punishment. LIGHTS ROMERO (Bartleby)

Almaciga
Maria Sanchez Geoplanet · 2020
María Sánchez constructs and reconstructs in this poetic glossary, in this hotbed of words, a bank of words carefully chosen from our rural world. That Spanish reality to which we have so often turned our backs and which is now strongly reclaimed as authentic life beyond the cement-cemetery cities.. Accompanying this activist book are the wonderful illustrations of Cristina Jiménez. A book-object, a book-weapon. A tool book. A book to give us and give away. ALODIA CLEMENTE (The Red)

The Naked Woman

Panopticon

Jeremy Bentham / Michel Foucault (illustrations by Elías Taño) · Virus · 2020

The panopticon is the definitive tool of power to articulate social control. Idealized in the 18th century by its inventor, Benthan, It was widely used in the architectural development of psychiatric hospitals and prisons in the 19th and 20th centuries.. Today its power is articulated at levels unsuspected by its creator., Technology puts in the hands of corporations and governments a spectrum of mass control capabilities unimaginable years ago.. This new edition, illustrated by our friend Elias Taño, incorporates a famous interview with Foucault after publication in 1975 of Monitor and punish. Essential book where the potentially catastrophic implications of Bentham's invention are broken down in a premonitory way.. JAIME ORTEGA

Civilizations / Civilizations
Laurent Binet · Upvoted by 1984 / Six Barral · 2020
And if Columbus' expedition to America had been a bitter failure and the Incas had conquered Europe? By placing his novel under the sponsorship of the video game Civilization (which consists in developing a historical civilization), Laurent Binet plays with History and repeats history. Here is the exciting adventure of an inverted globalization that is both romantic and epic. A pleasure to read! B.L.

The Nickel Boys
Colson Whitehead · LRH · 2020
Colson Whitehead's second consecutive novel about racial discrimination in the United States and second Pultizer Prize. Tas the successful The underground lane, Whitehead comes up with a story based on true events about a Florida reformatory in which two black boys, Elwood y Turner, They suffered abuse and racism in the late sixties. A fierce but subtle story, anchored in history but absolutely current. AU