Outtakes

I discreetly studied the movements of hundreds of potential actors and actresses who roamed the subway, until my camera stopped on her. Elegant and sophisticated. I called her Brenda Wilson, and I gave her the lead role in the movie I wanted to do. Brenda thoughtful on the platform, sitting ...

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Under the ice, by Bernard Minier

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The human being can end up being a more ruthless beast than any of the worst real or imagined beasts. Martin Servaz approaches his new case with that perspective of the macabre of the murderer capable of beheading a horse in a rugged area of ​​the French Pyrenees. The cruel way ...

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Malandar, by Eduardo Mendicutti

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A singularly paradoxical aspect in the transition to maturity is that feeling that those who accompanied you in a happy time may end up being distant light years from you, your way of thinking or your way of seeing the world. Much has been written about this paradox. I …

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The Agenda, by Éric Vuillard

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Every political project, no matter how good or bad, always requires two basic starting supports, the popular and the economic. We already know that the breeding ground that was Europe in the interwar period led to the growth of populisms like Hitler's and his established Nazism ...

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The force of a destiny, by Martí Gironell

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Ramón LLull Award 2018. The true American dream was the one that between the XNUMXth and XNUMXth centuries led a multitude of European citizens from any country: Irish, Italians, Germans, Spanish, Portuguese, English to the new and prosperous North American land. Among all of them, this book presents the case of Ceferino ...

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War Trilogy, by Agustín Fernández Mallo

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Nothing as alienating as war. An idea of ​​alienation that is perfectly captured in the dreamlike cover of this book, which in turn provides a sinister perspective. Serve as a perfect advance because that character between protected and hidden, bearer of flowers that could well lead to a ...

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The exposed nature, by Erri de Luca

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A very accurate definition to describe our deepest truth. The exposed nature would be something like turning our skin to expose the internal forum of each one with the motivations and beliefs that forge the crucible of the will. An intention that, however, is conformed as ...

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The Day the Lions Will Eat Green Salad, by Raphaëlle Giordano

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Romane is still confident in the possible recomposition of the human race. She is a stubborn young woman, determined to discover the irrational lion that we all carry inside. Our own ego is the worst lion, only that the fable in this case has little of a happy ending. Raphaëlle Giordano, expert in novels with ...

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An unfaithful woman, by Miguel Sáez Carral

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The biggest mystery can be ourselves. That is one of the basic notions that can awaken this novel that is shaping up to be a psychological thriller towards the mysteries of its characters. Two men face to face, Inspector Jorge Driza and the husband of an assault victim, Be. ...

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At Sunset, by Nora Roberts

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It is always appreciated that with each new romantic novel by Nora Roberts, we know that we are going to find a love story with so many edges that it ends up becoming at times a mystery or detective novel. Undoubtedly it is a differentiated and differentiating style that erects ...

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The revolution of the moon, by Andrea Camilleri

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Until recently, talking about Andrea Camilleri was talking about Commissioner Montalbano. Until, at 92 years old, good old Camilleri has decided to turn around and write a historical and even feminist novel ... Because the figure of Eleonora (or Leonor de Moura y Aragón) in the city ...

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The Sunflower Tragedy, by Benito Olmo

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Manuel Bianquetti is not going through his best moment. His times as a renowned police inspector are engulfed in a persistent fog of memories locked between feelings of guilt and remorse. Dedicating himself to research in a private capacity becomes the only way out for a guy like him, with few ...

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