3 best books by Marian Izaguirre

The writer Marian izaguirre he has a special pulse taken for all his works. As if it were a surgical intervention, in each novel we enjoy that perfect framework that serves the cause of the most precise action.

An action as soon moved by the most magnetic mystery, as by the deepest curiosity about the future of its characters, or even by the suggestive introduction into metaliterary universes in his most international novel "Life when it was ours."

Taking as a starting point on many occasions scenarios of the closest story, Marian takes advantage of that half light of the events still vivid in some privileged memories, to transport us to where lights and shadows coexist, to end up appreciating the flash of her characters in all its magnitude.

Top 3 recommended novels by Marian Izaguirre

Life when it was ours

Yesterday, when it plunges into the dark waters of dire circumstances, ends up leaving a stinking trail in the conscience that sometimes infects good memories and hopes for the future.

But despite everything, it is about surviving, even more so if we are talking about a vital period between 1936 and 1951, with the war and the dictatorship shorting the dreams of the most idealistic of the place. Lola and Matías inhabit that melancholic space of their old bookstore, as a metaphor for the lost opportunity of a country that only has the bitter sensation of the irreversible.

Along the way until reaching that minimum of survival that Lola and Matías share in a very dark time that they are not always happy to evoke. Alice's arrival at the bookstore seems to lead the existence of the characters to a friendly encounter around the books, great works and the intimate taste for reading to discover and empathize.

But Lola and Alice may have much more to empathize with than they imagine ... In Alice's case, it may be more sought after, in Lola's a surprise in the making that will disrupt her entire existence, that will be able to undo the dark mists that drown her memories ...

After many winters

With that fascination for doom-oriented destinies, from a turning point that upsets everything, we enter a fascinating novel. Behind what may seem like a crime of passion with more or less premeditation, there is, without a doubt, a story that could have been throbbing with love and life until it turned into the gruesome.

A mysterious murder shakes Madrid in the mid-sixties: a woman appears dead in a luxurious home in the Salamanca district. The origins of the crime go back to a previous encounter, when in 1959, on a beach near Bilbao, the young Henar Aranguren, who dresses as Balenciaga and prepares for her debut, falls madly in love with Martín, the only son of a family of working class and aspiring writer, who goes to the pier to fish every afternoon.

Dragged by an impossible love that they are unable to give up, Henar and Martín flee to Madrid together to fulfill their dreams: he, to be a successful writer, and she, to become the most important dressmaker of a new era. But poverty, ambition and the harsh judgment of a conservative society will begin to open insurmountable cracks in the couple.Three decades of the history of Spain and a permanent suspense run through this novel that also explores the underground currents of love, the art of sewing in the cinema wardrobe and female emancipation.

After many winters

The sleeping lion

The history of Spain, with its lights and shadows, is dotted with millions of intrahistories that give more meaning and significance to the multitude of conflicts, wars, social or political movements and even idiosyncrasies.

There is always where to choose the best setting to tell the best of stories. Or at least that is what it seems when a novel like this one focused on the war of the Rif is discovered, with its Annual Disaster included, a battle in which the Spanish troops were scalding and on which this novel takes advantage of to unravel obvious flaws and burdens ... When Pablo Ferrer agrees to meet with Lucía Osman, he is a tired journalist with the soul of a loser, but the story of this sickly-looking woman from Melilla, over eighty years old, reawakens his investigative eagerness.

Lucia tells her life, and the words that emerge give shape to the ordeal of a sweet mixed-race girl sold by her father to a brothel, captured shortly after by the Riffians and condemned to slavery in a mine. Little did Pablo imagine that he would feel so captivated by the story of this old woman that, seventy-five years after the events, she provides the keys to a shameful secret, known to the military and the Spanish government of the time, about the Annual Disaster, the important battle fought in the Rif that ended the Spanish military defeat.

A new version of this exciting novel by Marian Izaguirre, which transports us to the slopes of the Rif, from Annual to Nador. There, in these lands and in the voice of Lucia, is where what the history books wanted to forget comes to life.

The sleeping lion
5/5 - (13 votes)

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