The 3 best books of Maria Reig

Historical fiction finds in the XNUMXth and XNUMXth centuries a great claim for the feminist review of events. Because the story needs to be completed, underpinned with that becoming of the feminine that was awakening at that time as scattered bursts on a necessary horizon.

The takeoff of this current took place in Spain with Maria Dueñas and continues, among others, with a María Reig who provides new perspectives in a thriving bibliography with that captivating ocher color, like photographs that take us to an accessible past of our closest ancestors.

The question is to find a suggestive action, a plot capable of providing, in addition to the magical imitation of the nineteenth century or the recent twentieth century, a point of adventure and even suspense. The epic representation of the women who inhabit Reig's works point to survival, the longing for freedom and the desire to prosper, one of the best arguments for everything to flow with the thrilling sensation of each step forward in the face of so much adversity.

Top 3 recommended novels by María Reig

The thousand names of freedom

María Reig takes a leap from her usual XNUMXth century setting and goes back to the beginning of the XNUMXth century marked by a War of Independence that loomed as France's attempted conquest of the entire peninsula. A time of twilight for the Spain of those days, weakened by epidemics, revolutions on the other side of the Atlantic and the horizon of a Napoleonic assault that could finish everything off.

1815. The De Villalta family, wealthy bourgeois from Santa Cruz de Tenerife, receive a worrying and mysterious letter in the middle of the night. It has to do with the sad events that have plagued the family in recent times. Inés, her middle daughter, will undertake a trip to the peninsula with the sole intention of saving her family.

Modesto Andújar arrives in Cádiz from the Jerez de la Frontera farmhouse to study Commerce, although his vocation is politics. In his search for what remains of Cádiz de las Cortes, cradle of the 1812 Constitution, he will run into Alonso Guzmán, a type of quarrelsome life that seeks to flee from his past. But what once was will come to meet him, in the form of a very special commission.

The thousand names of freedom

Paper and ink

The idea of ​​breaking with stigmas can only emerge from a perception of freedom learned as a vital reference, far beyond reactionary teachings. Only that the discovery is almost never accompanied by similar people delved into that cave of Plato where nothing exists beyond the darkness that governs them. Elisa as a paradigm of discovery and the incessant will towards liberation.

Madrid, first decades of the last century. Elisa Montero, although of humble origins, has been raised since she was a child by her godmother, a wealthy and mysterious woman belonging to Madrid's upper bourgeoisie. The feeling of not belonging to any place and of a certain rebellion against the designs that others have traced for her will be something that will mark her life.

Elisa will not only seek to free herself from the limitations imposed by her status as a woman and her social position in order to become a journalist, but she will also try to take control of her destiny and surrender to true love. As her witness, the furious and convulsive actuality of a Spain between the wars that will accompany her in her struggle to know herself and overcome her own prejudices.

Paper and ink

A promise of youth

A two-stage plot that provides that buried sensation of time travel from the discoveries, the memories, those planes suspended in time of what was and what could or should have been...

Switzerland, 1939. Santa Ursula welcomes foreign students for the new course. Charlotte, one of the veterans, will be in charge of integrating Sara Suárez. As the days go by, the young women forge a friendship that will be interrupted by the war.

Oxford, 1970s. Caroline Eccleston is preparing her thesis on Swiss boarding schools in World War II. The discovery of the unexpected closure of one of them sparks Carol's curiosity, and she does not hesitate to travel to Zurich to find answers.

After the success of Paper and ink, María Reig returns with a moving novel narrated with force and rhythm. A promise of youth is the dazzling recreation of a time of shadow that chisels the personality of some teenagers who try to survive in a world full of demons.

A promise of youth
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