There are writers who are writers by vocation, as well as conviction. And cultivating yourself in the craft of writing means both sitting down to do it and investigating how to do it. There is a creative vein and imprint in the same way that there is learning. For all. Also to tell stories.
The case of mercedes de vega It points to that way of seeing literature as a creative aspect in which to pour out imagination, but also dedication on which to extend that learning to how to narrate things better. Because believing that you have been touched by the wand to tell what no one has told is a path to creative nullity.
The point is to start, feed the bug with stories, stories and so on. The taste for writing is always something that is born early, even if it is abandoned until a long time later. That beginning because of this author leads us today to stories and suspense novels or historical fictions that epitomize vibrant rhythm with a plot background. The perfect mix.
Top 3 recommended novels of Mercedes de Vega
Laura Cohen's long dream
Coincidences exist to the extent that someone or something conspires to make it happen. The feeling that something bad could happen does not stop our determined steps when the slightest hint of discovering a great truth appears around the corner ...
A few days after losing her husband in a traffic accident, Laura Cohen, a Spanish psychiatrist based in Montreal, takes as a patient a man traumatized by his past. When he disappears without a trace after the third session, Laura will begin her search attracted by an unexpected connection between the man and her deceased husband. This investigation will plunge her into a dangerous web of conspiracies, kidnappings, occult experiments, and torture dating back to World War II and the Holocaust, and will lead her to question her origins, her marriage, and her life up to that point.
Mercedes de Vega changes the register with her most ambitious work: supported by an excellently worked prose and an accurate characterization of the characters, she weaves a plot of intrigue concocted to perfection, full of surprising twists and revelations, which does not slow down its addictive rhythm or for a moment.
All happy families
There is something predictable in the intergenerational evolution of some families. And so the notion of a script for destiny seems to be presented to us as a very option to consider. The question is why great tragedies are always anticipated just when it seems that happiness is approaching ...
Teresa Anglada sees her life as a successful journalist fall apart when her daughter Jimena disappears at the Reina SofÃa Art Museum in Madrid without leaving a trace. In a panic, Teresa is slow to fall into one detail: her daughter disappeared on December 21, the same day her father did in 1970. What she still does not know is that one of her predecessors died in that same place sixty-five seven years ago, when the museum was the Provincial Hospital of Madrid, although his body was never found.
To get little Jimena back, Teresa quits her job and undertakes an investigation that will force her to delve into her family's past. This journey will confront her with her own ghosts, the loss of her father, and really knowing who the Anglada are, until she reaches a climax from which no one will emerge unscathed.
With an enviable mastery of prose, Mercedes de Vega returns to the universe she created in her previous novel, When we were alive, to immerse the reader in a torrential drama that explores the lights and shadows that all families keep inside.
When we were alive
It is possible that one is no longer alive and is just a memory evoked by someone who still cannot or does not want to forget. This is how it seems when things happen with a hint of strange melancholy that recomposes each moment to discordant lights, to unexpected lights, to experiences on the edge of unfathomable abysses from the simplest routine.
An exceptional novel about love and destiny, memory and family secrets, set in Madrid in the thirties. At the dawn of the Second Republic, LucÃa Oriol is a young aristocratic wife in a society undergoing transformation, whose life turns upside down when she meets Francisco Anglada, a widowed businessman of Jewish origin, who buys a residence from the Oriol family on the street Painter Rosales. What begins as a torrid love affair becomes entangled when Francisco's troubled daughter, Jimena, appears. The relationship between Jimena and LucÃa, her double life and the Anglada's hidden past will uncover a whirlwind of jealousy, revenge and betrayal from which no one will emerge unscathed.
LucÃa Oriol's love for a man trapped in the labyrinth of the past and the need to tell the truth and do justice feed this portrait of two lineages, inspired by real events, in a convulsed Madrid on the brink of Civil War.
With the wealth of an outstanding prose writer, Mercedes de Vega delves into our most personal story to show that secrets that can be lethal are hidden in all families. When we were alive It is not only the story of a woman who must choose between reason and heart, it is also the fresco of an era and a city that will mark the destinies of its protagonists.
