The 3 best books by Chufo Llorens

Talk about the writer chufo llorens is to approach the genre of historical fiction in its widest range. Because in authors like Jose Luis Corral o Santiago Posteguillo (to cite two references of the genre) we usually find exciting historical novels that address always surprising aspects from the informative.

But in the case of Chufo Llorens, we find an author who combines that taste for historical rigor as a basis, only knowing at the same time to breathe that fiction into mystery, as inspired by Ruiz Zafon, falcons or even in the Ken follett more focused on history as a fictionalized setting.

And in the resulting melting pot, stories that beat us because of this ambivalence end up melting. The question is knowing how to find the intrahistory small but brilliant as diamond. A narrative thread that takes place within the great events and that can end up leading us, surprisingly, to much more transcendental scenarios for the glory of its characters and the progressive rebound of its plots.

Top 3 recommended novels by Chufo Llorens

The fate of heroes

First decades of the XNUMXth century, aromas of modernity, yearnings, dreams and hopes. But also powerful challenges that ended in the Great War and in many other conflicts. The dawn of a new century seemed to awaken in Europe mixed sensations of thriving life amid old hatreds capable of the most ominous destruction. Chufo Llorens rescues those protagonists of history who end up becoming ours from skin to soul.

In Madrid we find José and Nachita, one rooted in the capital and the other recently arrived from the new world thanks to their father's booming businesses. In Paris we meet Gerhard, fascinated by the light of Paris and by the painters who transfer it to canvas and by a Lucie who concentrates precisely all that light that radiates from the most bohemian Paris.

Soon we evidenced that the matter goes of crossed destinies without any signs of resolution, with consequences that will fly over wars and that will be reflected in letters and indelible memories. The world seems to be sinking when humans engage in war as a solution. But among the rubble hope always flourishes again, even when death seems to have erased all possibility of amendment.

The fate of heroes

The law of the just

The definition of melancholy should be associated with the nineteenth century, with that time immediately prior to the turn of the millennium. More than anything for the first sepia photos or the first recordings with that force of the testimony brought directly from the light of other days.

But we also find the first cars, urban modernism that reached from architecture to fashion, as a total scenario. Barcelona was the clearest example of that modernism that was sweeping from continental Europe. And Chufo Llorens finds in this historical period a place where characters can inhabit that reach even deeper than any photo or first black and white film. Because the author brings his characters to life in a Barcelona blessed by modernity after his exhibition in 1888.

Love once again channels the plot, because nothing more inherent to melancholy than love, always tightrope walker in those strange days straddling two centuries. The Ripoll family concentrates that business power not yet limited by labor rights. Only that the next generation seems not to take the reins as the patriarch Práxedes Ripoll would like.

The rebellion of its three offspring directs them towards very different vital decisions. The most bloody case is that of his niece Candela who seems to have no qualms about finding love amid poverty. Between one and the other we are delving into a plot that recovers Barcelona from a time of revolts, of marked leaps between social strata and appearances that are so captivating in their appearance as they are ominous in the background.

The law of the just

I will give you the earth

Nothing to do with that «All this I will give you"To Dolores Redondo, however much the analogy presents itself to us immediately. The first great novel (in terms of its success among readers at least) by a Chufo who took that qualitative leap from the commercial to the fifth that finally recognized a good work already demonstrated from his debut film "Nothing happens the day before."

In this story we rewind in the recurring setting of the author in Barcelona until we find ourselves in a much darker eleventh century (after that of the novel «The cursed earth»By Juan Francisco Ferrándiz on Barcelona itself). The capital of the county of Barcelona was in full expansion period for the greater future glory of the Crown of Aragon, but with its own charters, Barcelona was configured as a city that housed certain possibilities of prosperity for men in search of good fortune and with the enough skill.

The intrepid young man and the unapproachable lover because of his high birth. The amorous ravings of the powerful among the palace liars. An exciting novel about precisely the passions and ambitions that end up moving while the life of the growing city proudly points towards new great challenges.

I will give you the land

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The life that separates us

The most intrahistorical plot of all the historical fictions made in Chufo Llorens. An introduction in that last quarter of a century of Spain that meant the belated awakening in front of a Europe that had already been licking its war wounds of the convulsive XNUMXth century but that weighed down, from the Pyrenees to the south, with one of the last longest-lived dictatorial regimes. . The transformation pointed to ways but the old ghosts still loomed in a Spanish society that, more than curing world wars, healed its own internal conflicts, extended far beyond the civil war.

Barcelona, ​​1977. In a country that is approaching a new horizon of freedom, the life of Mariana Casanovas is faltering. The economic goings-on of her husband Sergio de ella, an unscrupulous young executive, leads her to financial ruin along with her four young children. Torn between marriage and her disappointment before a man who lacks his word and honor, Mariana undertakes the task of saving her family, even if she has to take drastic measures to do so.

Sixteen years ago, the future opened up before her, showing her what promised to be a bed of roses. An adolescent Mariana took her first steps in adult life and in the high society of the time, very marked by the customs and traditions that continued to point out the duties and obligations of women. In those years of apprenticeship, the young woman faced the passion of Rafael, a rejoneador much older than her who fell for her charms, and that of Enrique, her first love, an aspiring musician who left for Paris to fulfill his dreams. to become a violin virtuoso.

But that path once strewn with illusions is now overshadowed by a failed marriage and an uncertain future. Should Mariana continue to show loyalty to a man like her husband and follow him on the run from justice? Does she have any sense in complying with what her parents and everyone around her instilled in her? Is it already too late to aspire to happiness?

The life that separates us
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5 comments on "The 3 best books by Chufo Llorens"

  1. I have read all the books by Chufo Llórens, not just once but twice or more… My favorite is; I WILL GIVE YOU THE EARTH, I have read it four times since I bought it in 2010… it is fascinating… the way it is written It transports me back in time…I hope to read it once more at least….

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  2. I just read "The Law of the Just." I loved it despite the great extension but I think it does not spare a comma. This is the first thing I've read by this AMAZING author.
    I will continue reading your books

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    • It is wonderful, its history, I totally agree, there is not a page left over, a book totally in my memory, and that I will read again.

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