The 3 best books of Mario Mendoza

The current plethora of Colombian writers is one of the most profuse and recognized in the Spanish language. The issue could be linked to the worldwide success of a Gabriel García Márquez who would serve as an incentive for new generations of storytellers. But in the end, writing is more a matter of spontaneous appearance, ...

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The 3 best books by Jeannette Walls

writer Jeannette Walls

Sometimes it is more that the story to tell assails you to be necessarily told. That's what happened to a successful self-made writer Jeanette Walls from the open and poignant review of her own life. The American dream cannot be understood ...

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Premonition, by Rosa Blasco

Novel Premonition, by Rosa Blasco

Since Cassandra and her dark omens that no one believed, fear remains the only alert in the face of the most gloomy immediate future. Many women's stories have been written around the notion of that intuition or sixth sense. Because they are the ones who historically enjoy that ...

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Chavalas, by Carol Rodríguez Colás

Watch the movie “Chavalas” completely free on RTVE PLAY. The turtles are divinely fed with gazpacho. Until they end up dying, God knows why. And people never keep their most authentic portraits when they take their ID photo, another thing that no one can understand. It …

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3 best books by Horacio Castellanos Moya

Books by Horacio Castellanos Moya

In the literary there are two ways of narrating the disenchantment. An example might be Bukowski and all the dirty realism that surrounds him. Another form is that of Horacio Castellanos Moya, from whose disenchantment comes fierce criticism and satire and the story with a transforming intention. It is not a question ...

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The heart of Triana, by Pajtim Statovci

Novel The heart of Triana

The thing about the popular and even lyrical Triana neighborhood is not going. Although the title points to something similar. In fact, good old Pajtim Statovci might not even consider such a coincidence. Triana's heart points to something very different, to a mutable organ, to a being that, ...

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Don't miss Woody Allen's 3 best books

writer Woody Allen

What about the filmmaker Woody Allen? Just revere ourselves before a type of fragile appearance and anodyne presence who ends up spreading his wit in a universe without parallel. But we also have the writer Woody Allen who occasionally indulges in new fictions on paper, tragicomedies of our days, thoughts, stories ...

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The 3 best books by Giovanni Papini

writer Giovanni Papini

The misunderstood genius occurs more commonly in other creative fields far from literature such as painting or music. I say this because perhaps in Giovanni Papini we have a Van Gogh. In demonstrating the genius evidence of Papini, Jorge Luis Borges himself put a lot of effort, ...

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3 best books by Juan Madrid

Juan Madrid books

Among that select plethora of prolific Spanish authors, Juan Madrid acquires a special relevance. Because this brilliant author writes about everything and everything, combining themes and developing with special mastery between the police and black genres. Under the umbrella of his degree in Contemporary History and his performances as ...

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3 best books by Dean Koontz

Dean Koontz books

The hybrid between the mystery and horror genres is already a fixed background in all bookstores thanks to authors such as Stephen King or Dean Koontz himself, without a doubt two great authors who share origins in the northeastern United States. Despite what it might seem, in ...

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The 3 best books by Stefan Zweig

Stefan Zweig books

World War II had one of its most symbolic closings with the suicide of Hitler and Eva Braun. But some years before this happened, another German of a very different political and social background did the same with his second wife. It was about Stefan Zweig, who ...

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The 3 best books by Evelio Rosero

Evelio Rosero books

You want it not, growing up with the reference of one of the last great geniuses of literature like Gabriel García Márquez ends up spontaneously generating school. Perhaps that is why in Colombia good and interesting storytellers come out with that naturalness that goes through several generations of lovers of good ...

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