Murakami's intention with this serial publication for such a solid block work, and that as a result of its publication dates could have closed in a single volume, cannot be other than to differentiate something that escapes us. The truth is that the story ...
My father's library was never missing the latest news from John Le Carre or Frederick Forsyth. It was the last years of the 80s, with the Berlin Wall still standing and therefore with the literary imaginary about the Cold War still in force. They have passed the ...
At first, the translation of gangster literature to anywhere other than Chicago or New York sounds pretentious. But in the end I always tend to pay attention to the daring, to that creative insolence that in this case leads us to import a distinctly American imaginary to adapt it ...
The American writer Mary Higgins Clark had the great virtue of not only maintaining that taste for a classic police genre around the mystery of crime, but with the passage of time she transferred her arguments to a present day in which she inserts that point of classicism that It seems …
Espionage literature underwent a necessary transformation to adapt to current times. Today's international political scene shares a parallel role between the physical space of countries and borders and that abyss of the network in which all political or economic interest acquires ...
It is well born to be grateful. And paying tribute to one of the greatest of the classic Spanish black genre like Vázquez Montalbán is to be very grateful. Carlos Zanón has started to do it with this new novel that recovers the ghosts of Carvalho and those of a society ...
The usual unfolding of John Banville and his pseudonym Benjamin Black comes with this novel to a kind of synthesis with a work that, under the signature of his alias, offers a double reading of historical fiction or noir. Thus, the Irish writer summarizes this double plot line ...
In 1996 Chuck Palahniuk wrote that great cult book "Fight Club." And shortly afterwards the cult became a mass phenomenon with the film in which Brad Pitt and Edward Norton split their faces in the most unexpected places, the result of a bipolarity that ...
In love and in war everything is allowed. And let's not say if both premises converge ... Only such an approach and also taken from a true story could lead Mark T. Sullivan away from a usual genre of mystery and suspense in which he had been moving with him ...
Fiona Barton's long career as a crime reporter was paving the way for her recent appearance as a thriller writer. And nothing better to start with than to hide in an alter ego such as Kate Waters to tackle her first novel The Widow and this second one that returns to ...
An interesting Afro-American literary and critical trend extends since Toni Morrison was recognized as the brilliant storyteller that she is in the eighties, in that hybrid of fiction and realism that welcomes fictionalized lives in highly recognizable social environments and where they still survive with intensity. notions ...
I could not agree more with the proposal of this book Free your brain. Under normal anatomical, organic and structural conditions, a brain is a very similar organ in every human being. The difference between a genius and someone immersed in the mediocrity of the population must be caused ...