Recommended books on coronavirus

Books on coronavirus

With the arrival, unfortunately to stay, of the Covid-19 disease (not to call it "supercatarro bastard with possible multiple conditions"), the books on coronavirus proliferated like another pandemic, in parallel to the incipient and neurotic search for information. INDEX The Eyes of Darkness, by Dean Koontz On the front line, by ...

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Breakdown at the Edge of the Galaxy, by Etgar Keret

Breakdown at the edge of the galaxy

Specialized in the brief, such as many other great storytellers of today such as a Samanta Schweblin with whom you can find a certain tune, the good old Etgar Keret presents us with a volume of disruptive stories in what used to be his creative future storyline. Change the subject, …

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The city of steam, by Carlos Ruiz Zafón

The city of steam

It is of little use to think about what was left to tell Carlos Ruiz Zafón. How many characters have remained silent and how many new adventures are stuck in that strange limbo, as if lost between the shelves of the graveyard of books. With the pleasure that one was lost between corridors ...

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Goodbye ghosts, by Nadia Terranova

Goodbye ghosts

Melancholy is that strange happiness of being sad. Something like this pointed out Victor Hugo on occasion. But the matter has more substance than it seems. Melancholy is not only the longing for time that has expired, but also the disheartening sensation of the pending, of the unresolved. So melancholy ...

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The Mirror of Our Sorrows, by Pierre Lemaitre

The mirror of our sorrows

In a way, Pierre Lemaitre is the French Arturo Pérez Reverte for his versatility. Convincing and fast-paced in black genre plots with the ambition of portraying our underworld; disturbing in its realism determined to expose so many miseries; fascinating in historical fictions with a transcendent vocation from the juiciest intrahistories. ...

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Terranautas, by TC Boyle

The Terranauts

The cinema and literature of sociological experiments should already have their own genre, From the Truman Show to the dome of Stephen King, a multitude of stories elaborate on telling us a vision between the utopian and the dystopian, as a bet to discover where it opts ...

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The Second Horseman, by Alex Beer

The Second Horseman, Alex Beer

Despite being the first novel to come to Spain by Daniela Larcher (that's the name of the author after the pseudonym, a translated Álex Cerveza that in Spanish would not eat a literary colín), this author has already had her good years emerging in a black genre of your country in ...

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I'll wake up in Shibuya, by Anna Cima

I woke up in Shibuya

What is loved is dreamed of. What moves the inner mechanism with passion ends up erecting the construct on which each one feels, lives and of course dreams. This novel has much of that dream come true in the truest form of the hackneyed transition. Because every dreamer ...

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Fireproof, by Javier Moro

Fireproof

New York fascinates even more when you just visit. Because it is one of the few places that not only maintains expectations but even exceeds them. Especially if you can discover it with good friends who live throughout the heart of the city. No, NY never disappoints. So what …

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Seven Lies, by Elisabeth Kay

Seven lies

The anguished sensation that the world is falling apart from the closest reality of family or friends. We are not talking about a tragic vision, or a dramatic approach. It is rather the essence of those domestic thrillers exploited by authors like Shari Lapena in which Elisabeth ...

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The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead

The Nickel Boys book

I don't know how many times, if at all, the fact that a writer repeats on the Pulitzer has happened. Colson Whitehead with the Pulitzer in 2017 and 2020 is already an idyll of a great creator, an honor that allows him to even show himself humble in ...

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Rotos by Don Winslow

Rotos by Don Winslow

A book by the prolific Don Winslow that is a sample of the black genre in its most disparate representations. An aftertaste of crude realism that in this compilation assails us from the closest everyday to the most unlikely scenario. The question is to end up invading us in assault by all ...

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