When an author decides to unleash his imagination through literature without further conditioning, versatility is the only way. Beyond overwhelming recent successes, Fernando J. Munez it is telling stories with the dedication of someone who finds a good story to be told, without having to abound in guaranteed success formulas.
The reward is the very commitment to literature and the satisfaction of a job well done. Because ultimately there is no good deed without that passion that, rather than forcing writing, impels it with the irreducible drive of the will.
In the current narrative posture of this author, the historical fictions More disparate seem to occupy his narrative evolution, with characters that reach those depths of the dermis from a mimicry only available to the most gifted writers to convey empathy. But it is that previously his field was children's literature. The question is to go sowing different areas of creativity.
Top recommended novels by Fernando J. Múñez
The Ten Steps
At the time it was step 33 of louis clog. Then we come across these ten steps. And it is that the stairs have their mystery from the same moment in which we do not know how far they can lead us in a dark castle or palace ...
Kingdom of Castile, 1283 AD. C. Alvar León de Lara, cardinal of the curia, returns at the request of his former mentor to the abbey that was his home, which he left twenty years ago with a broken soul for an impossible love. His teacher wishes to reveal something to him that will change the course of Christianity.
However, the arrival of Alvar will unleash the tragedy: riddles behind hidden doors, inexplicable crimes, symbols that lead to clues and clues that lead to traps. A dizzying descent that will confront him with the woman who tore his heart apart, the intransigence of cowards, the struggle to stay among the living and, finally, the Ten Steps.
Fernando J. Múñez, author of the bestseller La cocinera de Castamar, this time transports us to the hidden worlds of the Middle Ages, where the characters will face ancient demons that still survive among us: prejudices, irrational ideas and immovable dogmas. In an age when God was confused with the Devil, and where love was caged under the laws of men, ten steps could show the difference.
The cook of Castamar
The great boom of an author who became a best-seller and launched translations into different languages. The perfect novel, forged suddenly, with that wedge of an author transmuted from other creative spheres and precisely for that reason loaded with unusual freshness to address such a disparate genre, with that marked difference that has captivated so many readers...
Clara, a young woman from disgrace, suffers from agoraphobia since she suddenly lost her father. Thanks to his prodigious cuisine, he manages to enter the Duchy of Castamar as an officer, disrupting with his arrival the apathetic world of Don Diego, the Duke. This, since he lost his wife in an accident, lives isolated in his large mansion surrounded by the service. Clara will soon discover that the calm surrounding the hacienda is the prelude to a devastating storm whose center will be Castamar, her lord, and herself.
Fernando J. Múñez weaves for the reader, with a detailed and delicate prose, a warp of characters, intrigues, loves, envies, secrets and lies that intertwine in an impeccable recreation of the Spain of 1720.
