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The art of reading the streets
Reverse. Testimonials from bertsolaris womenThe bertsola player and writer Uxue Alberdi, after the wonderful Kind of joplin, brings us closer to the reality of bertsolaris (that reminds us in our land of the cant d'estil), denouncing the power structures and heteropatriarchal violence to which they are subjected. Interview with fifteen colleagues and debate and review with them years of feminist struggle, relying on authors like Mary Beard, Joanna Russ o Judith Butler. A whole experience of shared knowledge that won the Euskadi Essay Prize in 2020, and now we can enjoy it in Spanish. ALODIA CLEMENTE (The Red)
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We are already dead, amor
Xavier Aliaga · Angle Editorial · 2021
Xavier Aliaga has written a novel narrated by an emotional voice, a voice meticulous in detail and incisive in tone, which brings us to the surprising end of the book. Anaïs tells us the story. She is no longer there, but that is precisely why he can tell us, because as she says: "dying is the only way to know everything". Aliaga is a novelist with a career who on this occasion proposes a key theme: how to deal with one of life's most unbearable losses. You will see… LOURDES TOLEDO
The abysses
Pilar Quintana Alfaguara · 2021
Claudia grows up surrounded by women who cannot escape their lives or break the bonds of their time.. The girl interprets with acuity and sensitivity, from the most absolute naivety, the abysses and darkness of a cruel and sad adult world: wiles, silences and frustrations of parents who carry their past and present and who bring out the worst fears in her. AU
In the end the monsters always win
Juarma · Blackie Books · 2021
In the end the monsters always win It is the story of a friendship built on drugs, that permeates everything and in the end, everything poisons. Dani, Nits, Lolo, Jony and Juanillo have forged their bonds over the high and well-being that cocaine provides without wanting to see that it only invents mirages that keep the monsters inside them at bay.. AU
The disappearance
Julia Phillips · Sixth floor · 2021
Julia Phillips takes us to the long, frigid Kamchatka Peninsula, in eastern Russia, where two sisters aged eleven and eight have mysteriously disappeared. The disappearance of these girls connects the stories of other characters in the region related in some way to this event that has spread a blanket of fear.. The fear, my to my, it will mutate into other things. Racial discrimination against the native population, the psychological effect of the possible kidnapping on the population (especially negative for women), the country's communist past, mothers courage, and the subtle tentacles of patriarchy sneak into this wonderful crime novel that solves the mystery of the disappearance in a slightly disappointing way., but it closes the plot beautifully. AU
The wounded house
Horst Krüger · Siruela · 2021
“I am tormented by the question of what that thing that we cannot conceive today really was like.”, Horst Krüger confesses in the first pages of The wounded house. How could the Holocaust happen?? It was an extermination masterminded by the disturbed mind of Adolf Hitler and his Nazi gyrfalcons., but it took a large mass of “good Germans” to agree, participate or look the other way so it could happen. And in that great mass were Krüger's parents—apolitical petty bourgeois who carried the horrors of the First World War and the fear of inflation and wanted to live in peace—and the author himself., that tells us without drama how, almost by chance, participated in the resistance against the Nazis, He later fought for the Axis powers and ended up deserting and surrendering to the Americans.. Yes indeed, when the Reich was already collapsing like a house of cards. “I am the typical son of those meek Germans who were never Nazis.”, but without whom the Nazis could not have carried out their work.", affirms with resignation. The least of his reasons, dice, was the patriotic, Their only fear was to fall again and someone arrived who promised to take them and the entire country to the top.. Krüger comes to dismantle, with a certain dose of irony and constant philosophical and operatic references, the gentle lies built to ease the heavy burden of the Germans, that if it had not been for the SS and the Gestapo, the people would have risen up against Hitler. Lie, says the author, The truth is that the Germans loved that man, They hailed him with loyalty and died by the millions for him.. Krüger also tells us that he attended the Auschwitz trials years later., and in line with Hannah Arendt's theory of the banality of evil, found that everyone limited themselves to fulfilling their duty, that the human being is a product of circumstances and that everything is a matter of habit. “In a city of death, everyone becomes his co-star. Whether you give the bread or turn on the gas, “You are part of the show.”. Even if it's just for survival, the small officials, pleasant, well-mannered employees who operated without hate or emotion, They became administrators and managers of mass death to later become “good citizens”. In this personal liberation in book form, Krüger tells a personal and political story at the same time in which he confesses to having pulled the trigger and having, like all germans, hands stained with blood. He turns his parents' home into a metaphor for Germany and the entire globe in reality., human behavior understands little about nationalities. A cathartic and disturbing book that puts us as human beings in front of the mirror offering a not encouraging reflection.. What would you have done if you had accidentally entered the bureaucracy of the extermination camps?? AU
The anomaly
Hervé Le Tellier · Six Barral · 2021
Hervé Le Tellier our news, gently, in a choral science fiction novel that hooks even those most reluctant to the genre. Why The anomaly germ of the novel is unleashed once we have fully entered into it and we want to believe it. Passengers on a plane from Paris land in New York after passing through a terrifying storm. Already on land, everyone goes on with their life (they write books, they commit suicide, break up relationships, they compose songs, face cancer, they get pregnant...), but three months later, an identical plane, with the same passengers and the same crew, appears again in the sky of New York. That is to say, The fact that the same plane lands twice triggers major dilemmas that human beings have never faced before.: What do we do with repeat people?? How do we communicate the event to public opinion so that conspiracy theories do not break out?? What if a third Air France flight appeared 006? How do we explain what has happened so that our way of thinking about the world and reality coincide again?? Thriller science fiction, awarded in France with the prestigious Goncourt Prize, that focuses on our need to seek answers to everything that distresses us. AU
The lost man
Jane Harper · Black Salamandra · 2021 (mayo)
The desolate landscape, The suffocating climate and the almost suicidal harshness of the most extreme physical loneliness of the Australian outback are protagonists in the latest novel. noir they Jane Harper. The mystery to be solved in The lost man It is unleashed by the appearance of a body scorched by the sun that before dying desperately sought the small shadow of a grave in the middle of nowhere that occupies the remote and semi-arid interior of Australia.. Nobody knows how Cameron Bright got there., If it was a somewhat twisted suicide, a surprising oversight, or just bad luck. His older brother, Nathan, will pull a thread that will discover family and own shames, oppressions, sufferings that are inherited, hidden loves and half-truths that keep you tied to the book for hours and hours. AU
The tyranny of the flies
Elaine Vilar Madruga · Barrett · 2021
Cassandra is the eldest of three siblings in a dysfunctional family.. She has fallen in love with a bridge with whom she has sporadic sex (when they leave him), the medium one attracts the animals and kills them and the small one, engrossed in her world and unwilling to communicate with other humans, stupid, draw hyperrealistic animals. The mother doesn't want them (nor they to her) and the father is a disgraced military man who has imposed his own dictatorship at home.. Position, nation and family crumble together in a novel filled with humor and magical realism that questions obedience, the concept of homeland, Parental roles and what we understand by dysfunction, as the editor of the book did, Christina Morales, in his acclaimed Easy reading. The tyranny of the flies reveals to us one of the most surprising young voices in current Cuban narrative, that of Elaine Vilar Madruga, from the hand of a Barrett publishing house that made a splash last year with the brilliant donkey belly by Andrea Abreu inviting, like here, an external writer to edit one of your posts. The formula works and we hope it brings us many other gems like this. AU
