Carmen Posadas placeholder image is a self-discovered writer in various genres. His forays into children's literature, social chronicle and finally novel They have always borne fruit with a good reception. As far as novels are concerned, their plots usually delve into intimate approaches, with meticulously outlined characters who face the unforeseen events of destiny.
Causality and chance as two highly shuffled elements in many of his novels. Tragedies, love, overcoming are also subjects that he tackles masterfully Carmen Posadas placeholder image. But what I like the most about this writer is that introduction to the character, those brushstrokes with which you manage to place yourself under the skin of the person who commands each scene, scenario and situation.
And as always, I have to choose those three most representative novels of the author of yore. Here I go with my recommendations.
Top 3 Recommended Novels by Carmen Posadas
The legend of the pilgrim
There is something of unspeakable fetishism in every spirit that collects works of art or jewelry. We already know that the value of water is, to be simplistic, but there are things about which price and value make up a strange duality in humans. Taking the part as a whole, the most valuable, the most expensive work gives us the vain feeling that we possess its initial owner or even an entire historical era.
This is a fetish novel, about the great ambitions transferred to the material to try to give them life, give them the inert ability to collect moments, kisses, pleasure or death ...
La Peregrina is, without a doubt, the most extraordinary, most famous pearl of all time. Coming from the waters of the Caribbean Sea, it was given to Felipe II and since then it has become one of the main jewels of the Hispanic monarchy. It was inherited by the jeweler of several queens until, after the War of Independence, it was taken to France.
At that moment began the second life of the Pilgrim, whose culminating moment was when, already in the twentieth century, Richard Burton gave her as a pledge of love to another legendary woman: the immense actress Elizabeth Taylor.
Confessing his inspiration from the contemporary classic The beetle by Mújica Laínez, Carmen Posadas chooses as the protagonist of her new project an object destined to pass from hand to hand and to have a risky, adventurous trajectory and, without a doubt, worthy of the great novel that the reader has in his hands.
license to spy
From Mata Hari to Coco Chanel through Marlene Dietrich and many others. The women at the service of international intelligence shows an extraordinary capacity for the most decisive underground movements to decant conflicts on one side or the other...
If there is a field where the so-called "women's weapons" are put to the test, that is undoubtedly that of intrigue. Since ancient times, and practically in all cultures, there have always been women who combined intelligence, courage, left hand and a lot of ingenuity. Carmen Posadas, after conducting a thorough investigation, composes an exciting and highly entertaining account of the adventures of some of these women who, without a doubt, deserve a prominent place in history.
The author collects, among others, the stories of the biblical Rahab, whose intervention was decisive in conquering the Promised Land, or the Balteira, the Galician minstrel who was involved in a thousand and one intrigues during the reign of Alfonso X. From her hand, we will meet the unique and fearsome poisoners of India, and we will have an unusual point of view on the assassination of Julius Caesar. Through these pages parade queens like Catherine de Médicis and her "flying squadron", adventurers like the inevitable Mata-Hari, and also princesses who put their talent at the service of Hitler, or Spaniards who were involved in some of the most important plots of the world. XNUMXth century, as Caridad Mercader.
All of them, and some more that cannot be mentioned, make up a book that reads like the best adventure novel and that, once again, shows that female talent is inexhaustible and knows no limits.
Little infamies
With this novel the author achieved the Planet Award 1998. A story about what is sought and what is unexpected, about those thrown dice that end up dictating what can happen, or perhaps rather about those dice that may or may not fall on the side we expected ...
Little Infamies is a novel about the coincidences of life. About those that are discovered with surprise, about those that are never discovered and yet mark our destiny, and about those that are discovered but kept secret, because there are truths that should never be known. It can also be read as a satire of society, as the psychological portrait of a gallery of characters, or as a fascinating story of intrigue, whose mystery is not resolved until the last pages.
A diverse group of people gather at the summer home of a wealthy art collector. Together they spend a few hours and, despite the pleasant phrases and the polite comments, the relationship will end up poisoned by what is not said. Each one of them hides a secret; each one of them hides an infamy.
Reality suddenly takes on the character of a puzzle, the pieces of which are closing in on each other and threatening to fit together. Fate is capricious and amuses itself creating strange coincidences.
Other interesting novels by Carmen Posadas…
The beautiful Otero
Discounting the movie Titanic, we rarely find a story that begins with the perspective of a nonagenarian. The point is that in this case too, a circle ends up closing on the long-standing character and what she has to say. «Nearly ninety-seven years old and completely ruined, Carolina Otero believes that the time has come for her to die.
This is indicated by the procession of ghosts and memories that she has always tried to avoid and that visit her for two days. A hardened gambler, she makes a new bet, this time with herself: Bella Otero will be dead before daylight. But death, like roulette, does not behave as players expect.
With this literary game halfway between the biography and the novel, Carmen Posadas placeholder image tells us the story of one of the most fascinating characters of his time, who squandered his enormous fortune in money and jewels, a gift from his lovers, estimated at about 68 billion pesetas at the current exchange rate »
Rebecca's syndrome
A story that delves into impossible love. A love that can no longer be but that, having healed badly, can be marked forever. Of wounds and syndromes, because... What is Rebeca syndrome? It is the shadow of a previous love, a bothersome specter that conditions us when it comes to falling in love again. And it manifests itself in many annoying ways and, above all, it does so at the most inopportune moments.
Do you unconsciously compare your new love with your old one? Are you afraid that he will behave like your ex, or, on the contrary, do you miss something in your current partner? Maybe, as in the case of the protagonist of the film Rebeca, you think that instead of being a couple you are... a trio?
In the same way that Freud maintained that maturing implies killing the father, we say that it is necessary to exterminate the annoying specter of past loves so that it does not cloud those of the present. This book is, therefore, a ghostbuster. And there are many and varied spectrums that fly over there.
The objective of this book is to teach you how to detect them, classify them and, of course, eliminate them all. With great humor, elegance and intelligence, Carmen Posadas gives us a book whose objective is to help us be happier by banishing the silly ghosts of the past.
