Mrs. March
Virginia Made · Lumen · 2022
Mrs. March “she's not smart enough to be bad, not chic enough to hide her numerous physical defects, but deliciously abhorrent in a hundred disgusting ways”. Mrs. March has just been told that the protagonist of her husband's latest novel, an idiot prostitute, seems to be inspired by her. and this, For a kind of Mrs. Dalloway obsessed with appearances, it is a very hard blow to take., which leads her to let herself be dragged into a hallucinated spiral of suspicions and paranoia very well told thanks to doses of tension growing up that build this delicate and elegant crime novel. A film adaptation is being prepared with Elisabeth Moss in the leading role. S.M.
Lake Succes
Gary Shteyngart · Alfaguara · 2022
Lake Succes paints a bitter portrait of capitalism and the nice men who feed it by trading smoke to belong to the club of the richest of the rich at the expense of making the poor poorer.. To those who look condescendingly at best, with contempt most of the time. And so, when they see them, because from its watchtower you can't see anyone. If they can't buy exclusive watches or bottles of whiskey worth thousands of euros for something it will be. Barry why does he do it? Because it can. Ruthless and disgusting world of so much you have so much worth in which, background, accompanying the story, a despicable tycoon like Trump runs for office and ends up winning with the support of a large mass of lower-class Americans whom our aspiring writer meets in a safari delirious on the legendary Greyhound buses through the America that extends beyond Manhattan. Which in reality is a cowardly escape from the problems from which not even the richest escape (because they are not solved with money), like having an autistic child. For the rest, with money, nougat. S.M.
Spanish beauty
Esther García Llovet · Anagram · 2022
It is increasingly common to find women in traditionally masculinized action roles such as detectives., military or police, less common is that these are rotten to the core with corruption. It's santa, nor virgin, nor a martyr, Michaela is a national police officer embedded in the force to help in the Grant gang's drug dealings and organize her own illegal parties.. In a Benidorm of leisure and drunkenness where no history of any kind is made, bleeding is made. A Benidorm that is another character in the novel, masterfully described by the author of the highly acclaimed surreal noir Fair fat man, Esther García Llovet. The gossip (and the attractive cañí) of a holiday city built vertically as an example of excessive and extraterrestrial avant-garde. A “delirious grand performance” made of negligence and corruption. The theft of a very special lighter and the enigmatically complicated relationship with an absent father are the two points of Michaela's life that intersect in this dry novel, direct and traditional toothpick holder and ashtray from Cinzano. S.M.
daughters of the north
Sara Hall · Alliance · 2022
daughters of the north It is a dystopia with an air of The maid's story settled in Great Britain, where a group of women have created an isolated and self-sufficient community that escapes the humiliation that its inhabitants are subjected to (especially, of course, to women) a system in technical KO. Until they decide that living in their limbo trying to go unnoticed as happily as possible is no longer worth it in a world that is built on quicksand., you have to take action… S.M.
