Fiction book reviews and critiques
Perhaps it is one of the most intense contradictions to riding, as they say. I am referring to the paradoxical and progressive experience of wanting to grow up. Because as soon as you want to later, you want to return to that time when so many authentic things are abandoned ... And Pilar Quintana too ...
With two novels to her credit, the Italian Ilaria Tuti is one of those authors in crescendo but pending absolute confirmation. Because then there are cases like Paula Hawkins' that end up stagnating with no signs of a solution after having known the most famous successes. Become a ...
Current storytellers such as Colson Whitehead or Brit Bennett are very proud of the racial connotations as an argument. It is about abounding in that awareness of difference as something natural. Even more so from the stridency of considering the opposite. Michael Jackson didn't want to be black, they all ...
The speed with which Shari Lapena builds her domestic thrillers does not detract from the quality of her plots. More than anything because she is the queen of this subgenre where personal relationships from the family cradle the worst nightmares, that suspense that makes us look around in search of ...
Since Dennis Lehane took us to Shutter Island to discover what was going on in his sanitarium, any novel that poses a similar scenario has to confront Di Caprio himself and his delusional case of the missing woman. But let's not get prejudiced by a novel that has ...
History always houses those nooks and crannies to discover, like a gigantic cathedral in which to discern details that end up being universes among its ashlars. Something like this happens with Fiume, a kind of Baratarian island brought to life in the harsh 20s of a Europe between wars. The question …
In his line of puzzling titles with which to fill his Kostas Jaritos series, The Good Man of Petros Markaris presents us with this kind of manual for stock market consciences. A tutorial that is already printed in full color in the best Universities for assassins ... The thing is to awaken those own contrasts ...
The Dutch writer Tommy Wieringa takes us into a true story about those stowaway children of the XNUMXst century. People of any age in search of a denied future. The old notion of borders as that ultimate nonsense, when one is able to deny the right to ...
A good book of short stories like the one that the good Xavier Sardà has summarized here never hurts. The best thing about a short story book is that the yarn is hardly a very clear motif. Because we can compose a free structure at our discretion. Seen like this, almost everyone ...
Camilla Läckberg or irrepressible literature. A whole typewriter if the simile does not take us back to one of those ancient Meccans that stopped being typed in the XNUMXth century. Camilla will then be more of an AI capable of developing black frames with disturbing precision. Because not only ...
It is was remains. The humor. And Jonas Jonasson knows a lot about that. His vision of the ridiculous places him at the antipodes of the trends of Swedish literature in particular and Nordic in general. And acting as a counterpoint, navigating against the current also has its rewards at times ... In this ...
As a budding writer, apprentice or latent storyteller waiting for something to tell, I have always wanted to ask some authors in their presentations their motives, their inspiration for writing. But when the line advances and you find them with their fountain pens and they ask you that of ¿Para…