There are many who attack the literary world thanks to the leverage of media capable of turning the writer into a best-seller. Coming to stay is something else.
And we have examples of all kinds. Sandra Barneda already carries a few books behind her back, such as Carme Chaparro, Monica Carrillo, Christian Galvez o Carlos of Love. All of them far surpass infamous literary memories such as that of Ana Rosa Quintana and her tortious plagiarism or that of Belén Esteban and her… well, whatever it was that she published or publishes.
In the case of Barneda, we can see that pleasant variety that makes each of these narrators, backed by popularity as well as their good work, a prototype of a very different writer tackling disparate genres ranging from romance to science fiction.
As I say, to Sandra's credit we find historical fictions, intimate plots, mystery proposals and that necessary feminine prism, more than feminist, that is drawing a literature of balanced protagonists in a natural way.
Top 3 Recommended Novels by Sandra Barneda
The daughters of the water
Venice is not all a beautiful city. Being surrounded by water (which is not precisely that it circulates fluidly) ends up deteriorating and staining the walls of the buildings, but we are talking about authenticity, of a beautiful city conquered by water and where everything happens to the rhythm of the different boats that cross it. between buildings of marvelous architecture at times splendid and at others of veiled decadence, as if it were a story. I would wrap myself up more about all this, but this is not the time. Now it's time to talk about the new book by journalist Sandra Barneda.
The point is that The Daughters of the Water, this wonderful novel takes us back to the inspiring Venice of the 18th century, where all those houses on the grand canal would be occupied by wealthy families and where St. Mark's Square would become the only meeting point for all those ancestral families who made their carnival a space for coexistence with the people, often surrendering to the lack of inhibition typical of the general masquerade.
Arabella Massari is a young and noble Venetian fascinated by the carnival in her city. Undoubtedly that kind of leisure was the best time of the year for the young and restless spirits of that remote Venice. Lucrezia Viviani, the daughter of a businessman eager to prosper, attends his party by forcing his daughter into an unwanted marriage if necessary.
In fact, Lucrezia attends the party as Roberto Manin's fiancée. Only that party day, so prone to deception, may be your last chance to escape that cold concerted love.
Arabella discovers in Lucrezia, with a timid and timid external appearance, that strength, rebellion and energy that she is looking for to incorporate her into a sisterhood of women who sense that they can be something more than mere secondary characters without a life of their own...
The land of women
If there is a notable revolution in the history of humanity, it is that of women in search of equality. Hence, every writer who comes to narrate the life and work of a family saga in feminine and anticipates that narrative tension of protagonists always on the edge, doing the impossible and more to survive stigmas and labels.
Gala Marlborough travels with her two daughters, Kate and Adele, to a small town in the Empordà with the sole intention of collecting the inheritance of an unknown relative and returning to her life in New York as soon as possible. Ignore that this decision will activate a perfect, subtle and rhythmic machinery ready to dust off buried lies, family secrets and heal souls surrendered to the bitterness of pain.
«Your father has been dead for a week, I have not found consolation for so much pain for a week. Since I returned from Boston, where I arrived too late to attend your father's funeral, I have not left the house; It has become my refuge, my sanctuary of tears. In this confinement I have understood that, in the glimpses of madness, is the maximum expression of good sense. That is why I am writing to you, that is why I sit in this old chair to confess to my only living relative, which is you, my little Gala.».
A fascinating journey to the heart of La Muga, a tiny place on the planet governed by a singular circle of old women with infinite hearts, knowing that the tiny can become immeasurable. Reflective, contemporary, magical, rebellious ... That's right The land of women, a passionate return to the origins, a rediscovery, the certainty that with the force and consent of the ancestors anyone can tempt fate.
Laugh in the wind
Sandra Barneda's second novel already pointed to that writer with deep concerns, with the discovery of writing as a projection for great fictionalized stories from that internal forum of the writer in search of answers ...
Have you ever thought about putting land in the middle? Get lost in a distant place and see your own life from a distance? Would you dare
Alex, a self-help book writer who needs to help herself, decides to take a trip to the heart of Bali. On his way, he will meet a spiritual teacher, two very different sisters and an enigmatic painter of goddesses. And you will be met with the surprise of a murder.
Novel and contemporary, fun and exciting, this travel novel with a noir tinge is a hymn to life and the need to be ourselves.
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The waves of lost time
The most dramatic turning points deal with changing life scripts. Nothing ends up being as expected. Each one then carries that ballast of a destiny that moves on a parallel plane as the most natural development of events. While reality insists on slipping like a merciless hourglass and delivered to gravity. Rebuilding the past is an impossible mission. Going back to the places and with the people where one was both happy and unhappy at one time is like Russian roulette.
They were accomplices in adventures. What The five , those juvenile novels about inseparable friends. They were until a second changed everything. The summers of childhood, life without haste and that friendship that seemed eternal exploded in a car one winter morning. The weight of guilt shattered their dreams and they stopped seeing each other.
But the delirious promise to celebrate together the fortieth birthday of a dead man will meet them again twenty-one years later. It's been too long. They have become strangers, but they all decide to meet and spend four days together to rediscover themselves and verify that beyond death, beyond pain, there is life and that friendship that belongs to them and has given value to their survival.
