The Origin of Others, by Toni Morrison

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Arriving at the rehearsal space, Toni Morrison delves into a simple idea, that of the others. A conception that ends up conditioning fundamental aspects such as coexistence in a globalized world or interaction at all levels between different cultures. It is what there is currently, communication between races, education, ...

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The President's Gardens, by Muhsin Al-Ramli

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Amid the emptiness of the modern world, the most intense stories about human aspects come from the most unsuspected places, from those spaces in which the human being suffers from submission and alienation. Because only in the necessary rebellion, in the critical notion of everything that surrounds the ...

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Her body and other parties, by Carmen Maria Machado

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If recently I spoke of the Argentine Samanta Schweblin as one of the great references of the modern story, this time we climbed thousands of kilometers in the American continent to meet the American Carmen María Machado. And at both ends of the largest of the continents we enjoy two ...

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You are not alone, by Mari Jungstedt

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Every author of suspense can find a great plot grip in childhood fears turned into phobias that are hardly approachable. If you know how to handle the matter, you end up composing a psychological thriller as a mosaic of an imaginary shared by millions of potential readers. Because phobias have a morbid point when ...

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Permafrost, by Eva Baltasar

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The end of living. The intense need for life sometimes leads to the furthest point, to the contrary. It is about that peculiar magnetism of the poles that in the end seem to be the same separate thing in origin. A thing, an essence, a something that insistently demands and ...

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Between dreams, by Elio Quiroga

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While Elio Quiroga made his way into the world of cinema, his collections of poems were also appearing in that transit through editorials of every budding writer or poet. But to speak of Elio Quiroga today is to consider the multifaceted creator, poet, screenwriter and novelist with a background that includes from a ...

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The visitor, from Stephen King

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One already loses all notion of space and time with an author like Stephen King. If you recently announced the imminent publication of Gwendy's Button Box (already published in English a long time ago), now this new novel «The Visitor» has arrived in Spain, advancing on the right, which at the ...

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Disappearance in Trégastel, by Jean-luc Bannalec

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Jean-Luc Bannalec is to German black literature what Lorenzo Silva to the Spanish. Both share ages and in both cases they are authors whose forays into the black genre are always greeted with reader joy. In the case of Jörg Bong, real name of Jean-Luc Bannalec, he has…

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The Friend, by Joakim Zander

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Joakim Zander is already one of the most powerful Nordic authors who heads a new turn of the Scandinavian thriller, until now focused on a black genre associated with the heinous crime, the disturbing murderer or the dark pending case around which we are offered great tension narrative. Because …

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A Separation, by Katie Kitamura

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Building a thriller from a couple's separation can actually be the best scenario to peek into a plot of maximum tension. From that critical moment in which we could consider what we did wrong, or how far we are from that other person with whom ...

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The case of the dead Japanese women, by Antonio Mercero

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When Antonio Mercero presented his debut feature, as far as crime novel is concerned, entitled "The End of Man", we discovered an author who seemed to be glancing at a detective genre to which he brought a groundbreaking perspective. His was a novel that balanced its weight between crime ...

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