Black Mothers, by Patricia Esteban Erlés

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It is time for every virtuoso of prose to publish his first great novel. Patricia Esteban Erlés is virtuous because she puts all her soul into what she writes. Wherever there is authenticity and commitment to what is done, it ends up being noticed. If we add the ease, emotion ...

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Invisible, by Eloy Moreno

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The childhood dream-desire to become invisible has its foundation, and its reflection in adulthood is an aspect to consider from very different angles. As we say, all part of childhood, probably from the power of some superhero capable of becoming invisible in order to surprise criminals and others. The …

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Mermaids, by Joseph Knox

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Sometimes you have to turn to the most lost of agents to solve the most dangerous of cases. Since the market generated the black market as a misguided brother, it took care of moving among the highest levels to earn a space and a consideration from the ...

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The Dreams of the Serpent, by Alberto Ruy Sánchez

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Having reached an age, it seems that life does not give for more. Many memories, debts, longings and few goals. The perspective of dementia may then seem like an existentially provoked procedure rather than a physiological or neuronal deterioration. Or maybe it's these, our neurons that end up ...

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The cursed land, by Juan Francisco Ferrándiz

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In these times, writing a historical novel set in Barcelona runs the risk of arousing suspicion of all kinds, from one side or the other. But in the end, good literature is responsible for destroying prejudices. Juan Francisco Ferrándiz offers us a story in the middle of the century of the Normans. ...

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Ragdoll rag doll by Daniel Cole

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Probably few initial murders in a crime novel acquire the level of animosity that is achieved in this proposal by Daniel Cole Ragdoll (ragdoll). The rag doll is hand-sewn by a demon capable of weaving together parts of up to six victims. Undoubtedly a method that involves ...

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From time to time, like everyone else, by Marcelo Lillo

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The difference between story and tale is given by a subtle difference in their intention. The story can be more or less a flat story, the story, however, whether in its infantile or mature version, always seeks to disguise reality, offer morals, fantasize about what it is not. ...

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The eight mountains, by Paolo Cognetti

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Friendship without trivia, without subterfuge. Few of us can count friends on the fingers of one hand, in the deepest concept of friendship, in its meaning free of all interest and strengthened by dealing. In short, affection beyond any other link from where ...

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A Stranger Home, by Shari Lapena

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From Shari Lapena we already expect one of those great literary constructions of suspense, of a domestic thriller like the one she showed us in The Couple Next Door. And certainly in this book A Stranger at Home, the Canadian writer reissues that formula of fear hovering over the closeness with the ...

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The Red Haired Woman by Orhan Pamuk

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The great Pamuk takes up an autochthonous narrative of its Turkish origins to open our minds to a multitude of approaches. So much so that sometimes the stage seems like a simple setting necessary for the author himself to know where to start from when talking about the ...

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Kingdom of Beasts, by Gin Phillips

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The starting stage of this novel exposes us to what we believe we are no longer. Our world starts from social coexistence, from cities, from institutionalized relationships, from official channels, from routines, from traffic lights and our cars ... What happens beyond ...

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Endurance, A Year in Space, by Scott Kelly

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339 sunrises over a distant blue planet to which you belong. Opening your eyes and discovering your world moving without you, there in its orbit can be wonderful, or frankly alienating, depending on the first foot you float with when you wake up. For the rest, nothing ..., a black environment around on the ...

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