The best books of many writers. The best novels for all kinds of literary genres. Essential books.
Satire can be the most acidic form of humor. A lysergic vision that awakens a humor that flies over the tragedy of false morals, of human duplicity. When a ruthlessly satirical vision assaults the social, appearances and their formulas fly into the air to perpetuate themselves in the…
The Nordic crime novel has in Camilla Läckberg one of its strongest pillars. Thanks to Camilla and a handful of other authors, this detective genre has carved a well-deserved niche on the world scene. It will be for the good work of Camilla and others like him ...
Historical romances of recent times. Love affairs from the 19th century or between wars from the 20th century. The thing is to make the love shine between drama and tragedy. Because what matters is improvement, resilience and a little bit of eroticism if you hurry me, which never hurts when they paint...
Mario Vargas Llosa is a writing genius who never leaves anyone indifferent, both in his role as a writer, as in his social interventions and political manifestations. In strictly literary terms, the Olympus of Spanish-American letters awaits him alongside Gabriel García Márquez, on both sides of Cervantes. ...
The long titles acquire, in the case of Norwegian writers, a special taste between the commercial claim and the intention of the impact on the reader's mind. At least it seems that way in that kind of quite eloquent statements about what the plot of his novels can offer. Occurred …
Japanese literature will always owe its irruption into current Western literature to Haruki Murakami, beyond manga for entertainment or monogatari with autochthonous historical themes. Because the arrival of this writer meant a break with the trend of literature for domestic consumption, opening the…
Sometimes it seems as if Samanta Schweblin and Mariana Enriquez are the same person. Both porteñas, writers and practically contemporaries. The two intense narrators of transgressive stories and novels in substance and form. How not to suspect it? Similar things have been seen in recent writers such as Carmen Mola or Elena Ferrante……
The particular creative genius of Paul Auster, capable of slipping into all his literary proposals, extends in a singular way throughout his work. This is so much the case that it is not easy to determine which podium of works to be recommended by this writer, winner among others, with the Prince Prize ...
There is a friendly science fiction, a fantasy easily assumed for every reader. Michael Crichton was the author charged with making that happen. Any of the novels by this best-selling genius offered you a remote escape, but at the same time it presented you with recognizable environments, situations easily assimilated to ...
If you mix in a composition with dark influences aspects of psychological thriller, mystery, criminal genre, classic horror, all seasoned on occasions with a few drops of fantastic, you find JD Barker as a good synthesis. Considering in addition a capacity very his to confer to his characters of…
Between Daniel Silva and David Baldacci they share a large part of the pie of the international thriller genre, that kind of inheritance from the great writers of spy novels such as Tom Clancy, Ian Fleming, Robert Ludlum, or the great Le Carré. Regardless of the particularities of style, rhythm or…
Dai Sijie's work is a kind of informative mission of humanism made into literature. Because Dai Sijie's stories exude that transcendence of works with a final moral, like proverbs extended in each scene of his plots. A desire for teaching, assuming the subjective nature of the novel, from…