With a swipe to Albert Espinosa, only more fanciful and disguised as a naïve writer, that of the American narrator TJ Klune is that search for a transformative literature from the allegorical. Always with a dose of humor that springs from inconceivable aspects that Klune knows how to bring to the plot with the naturalness of the exceptional.
From his first works, with a greater point of awareness towards different sexual orientations, Klune is today a much more versatile writer in his plot repertoire. Of course, always with a vein that points to the final moral as the culmination of each work.
Noted as a writer of youth literature due to the transcendence of his Green Creek series, here we rescue him as something else, once rediscovered as a narrator of the everyday towards that sublimation that can come from the fantastic.
Klune's Top 3 Recommended Novels
under the door of whispers
The myth of the boatman who takes us to the other side. Only in this case the coin, the obolus, also serves to give yourself a few last tastes before embarking on the last trip. Something that Dante himself would have wanted when he started his epic until the final liberation. Faced with a known and imminent end, there is no other option than to take advantage of every moment, making those last little things an exercise in elegant farewell to the main actor in the whole movie of his life.
Welcome to The Crossing of Charon. The tea is hot, the scones fresh, and the dead on the way. When Wallace Price is seen attending his own funeral, he discovers that he is dead. But Wallace is not ready to leave this world that he has barely enjoyed in life. So, when he is given a week to make the leap to the Hereafter, he decides to fully live those few remaining seven days.
An extraordinary journey will then begin in which, with the help of Hugo, who runs a picturesque tea shop hidden among the mountains of a small town and is also the boatman who helps souls cross "to the other side", he will learn to Enjoy the beauty of the details and you will be able to make up for everything you missed. Equal parts moving and hilarious, Beneath the Whispering Door is a story about squeezing life with TJ Klune's signature warmth, spark, and extraordinary empathy.
The house on the bluest sea
In the most bizarre, plot-wise, you can enjoy maximum proximity from estrangement. Because nothing better than a writer completely takes you out of focus to recognize very specific aspects that are a burden to us or that we should promote to abandon precisely the most unfair weights. Yes, something like magic.
Work, work and more work. Linus Baker could be any person, in any place, living any life. He was convinced of this, and if you had known him, you would not have hesitated to ensure that Linus belonged to the bunch, no more, no less. And so it was, until the day this functionary from the Department of Magical Youth is called by the Highest Directorate to supervise an orphanage of which there are hardly any records.
With this new task in hand, Linus will travel to the island of Marsyas, where he will have to supervise six orphans classified as dangerous (we are talking about the future Antichrist, among others) and their enigmatic caretaker. There, he must put aside his fears and prejudices, which are many, to realize that what he really has to do is not what he has been sent to. Because in Marsyas, Linus will discover that the path to happiness is different for each one of us, and that if you dare to walk it, you will reach the place where you will find yourself.
two men and a boy
Family contexts change. Home is where one finds souls with whom to inhabit the daily life by consanguinity or by simple harmony and a point of self-sacrifice. Giving each other in any current paradigm of what a family can be.
Three years ago Bear McKenna's mother disappeared without a trace with her new boyfriend, forcing Bear to take care of Tyson, his six-year-old brother. They've gotten by however they can, but due to his exclusive dedication to Tyson, Bear barely gets a chance to enjoy life. Until Otter comes back to town.
Otter is the older brother of Bear's best friend, and as they have their entire lives, the two clash with each other in ways neither expected. However, this time there is no escaping the intensity of the emotion that exists between them. Bear still believes that his place is Tyson's guardian, but he can't help but think that maybe life has something in store for him…or someone else.
