It's the law of life ... The empty nest and all that. Only that the moment a daughter closes the door of what has always been her home for the last time, the parents, who remain inside, become a bit of ghosts of a house that already ...
A truly eager soul like Yukio Mishima always ends up colliding with the farce of conventions, with the fleetingness of time, with the peremptory feeling of happiness. In this novel A Life for Sale, the author presents an alter ego in its essentials. Hanio ...
After the intergalactic conflicts previously narrated in The Dark Forest or in the first installment The problem of the three bodies, a true alliance of civilizations has developed on the ancient planet Earth. Under the protection of the new wisdom brought from the other side of the cosmos, the earthlings evolve ...
If there really is a female literature, then this book is a male literature raised in absolute equidistance with respect to that other narrative for women that presents stories about heartbreak and disagreement, about female resilience in the face of any adversity. Because in the end we are so equal that, in the face of defeat, ...
In the end, the story offers a different vision, a kind of true human brilliance thanks to grotesque and bizarre characters like William Walker. Crazy people convinced by improvised ideals for adventure and who end up revealing the great miseries and underground plans that other supposed great men meditate for their ...
If I was recently talking about the case of the Austrian swindler Filek, about whose life and work Ignacio Martínez de Pisón has written a book (highlighting the chapter on he deceived Franco), I am now preparing to introduce you to the American version of this European rogue. Deep down, Clark may ...
Australian writer Trudi Canavan is one of those brilliant exceptions to the fantasy genre trend as a regular space for writers, in masculine. Not that I mean to say that there are not enough good fantasy genre writers, there is the huge JK Rowling, or Margaret Weis, or ...
As a playwright, Sam Shepard knew how to transfer the most splendid art of the monologue to this novel. The history of theater, as a scenic art, is determined by great soliloquies that point to immortality from the simplicity of the character, of the human faced with his destiny. From the Greeks to Shakespeare, Calderón de la ...
In the case of any other author, Inspector Mascarell would become the transcendental character of the vital work. But speaking of Jordi Sierra i Fabra, it would be risky to confine him to a single character in light of the hundreds of published books. There is no doubt that with this novel ...
Here, the blogger who subscribes has been one more from Logroño for almost a decade. So bringing to this space the author Milagros Frías, the last prize for the novel in the City of Logroño 2017, has seemed fully appropriate. As for the lucky winning novel, it is presented to us as ...
Only the greatest ones like Murakami can afford to launch special editions such as this illustrated story: The Birthday Girl. The illustrated books have a vindictive aspect in favor of the book in its traditional paper format in addition to many other contributions. This novel too ...
The consequences of being weird, the border between genius and madness or between eccentricity and freakiness. The tormented final reality that had already been announced by the lightning bolts of madness. Before the hurricane he tells us the story of Curro, currently admitted to a center ...