The 3 best books by Màxim Huerta

The transfer of journalists to narrative is already a marked trend, in absolute explosion with the case of Sonsoles Onega. In some cases, it starts from taking advantage of the popular pull, publishing everything from cookbooks to beauty and self-help volumes that sell like hotcakes because of the well-known face behind the book.

Where the theme is already another song is in the pure and simple narrative. Writing a novel is a matter of talent and know-how, and there only the journalists most skilled with the pen end up reaching the general reader. Maximum Huerta He has been writing a novel for some time (in the meantime there are those who say that he became a Minister). His first work would be subjected to this parallel judgment of the reasons to rise to the great marketing circles ..., however, after several novels and some great accolades, the quality of this author is undoubted, regardless of the tastes of each one for a gender or other.

To such an extent it is so, that in a certain way his activity as a writer is almost overshadowing his journalistic tasks. Winning the Primavera de novela award in 2014 I was already beginning to endow him with that consideration as a gifted writer to present quality and suggestive stories for readers who are already legion.

3 recommended novels by Máximo Huerta

Bye little one

Alienation is a childhood without happiness, filled with the melancholy of childhood sensed in others but that never happened in their own flesh. But from those ashes are born the truest heroes. Because the road to perdition powerfully calls its wanderers from the inertia of abandonment. Deciding to take another course despite everything is the most heroic everyday event ever narrated.

"My mother would have been happier if I had not been born." Thus begins the heartbreaking testimony of a writer faced with the harshest of his narratives, that of his own life. Assaulted by memories of him as he cares for his sick mother, the past presents itself with voids that he cannot fill.

Through silences and a great talent for observation, the author lays bare his intimacy and presents us, with beauty and mastery, the portrait of a country and a time from his own family universe. He is accompanied as a confidant by his old pet, a loyal and charming dog.

Discovering why we choose to love those we don't love requires ruthless sincerity, and that is what is not lacking in this beautiful farewell story. Goodbye, little one is the exciting reconstruction of a childhood in which everyone, grandparents, parents and children, have been too silent. When the past returns loaded with silences.

With love was enough

It is even necessary to meet again from time to time with a love story. It happens as with music when the loving refrains stun to the point of almost physical exhaustion until, suddenly, a good composer reconciles us with that primary but absolute emotion that is love.

That is what happens with this novel by Máximo Huerta. Nothing better than an allegory, a kind of fantasy that connects with our most liberating dreams, that intimate space in which we are free when everything tunes towards happiness. This story is atonement towards liberation, delivery to the open grave to the dreams that link everything, desires since childhood, passions and drives somatized even in the skin.

Icarus lives with resignation the decline of his parents' marriage, his mother's anguish for the future they will have to face alone, his father's confusion, the restlessness of the whole family. But, while the child awakens to sexuality thanks to the complicity of a schoolmate, one day he also discovers with amazement that he has a gift, he is capable of flying.

This makes him a person admired by his neighbors, but also someone different. In the midst of his troubles, the parents want to protect him, but all he needs is understanding, acceptance and affection to complete his emotional education and face the narrow passage that leads us from adolescence to maturity.

With love was enough

The hidden part of the Iceberg

The city of lights also produces, consequently, its shadows. For the protagonist of this story Paris becomes a place of memories, in a melancholic wasteland in the middle of the great city, the same one that once housed happiness and love. For the great Romantics with capital letters of History, romanticism was always that, the compendium of a place like Paris and its exultant beauty plus the certainty that nothing is ever forever.

Thus, in this novel the moments revisit the writer who has lost the fundamental part of his inspiration, the one that served him to script his own life. In the search for impossible love, with the luggage of disappointment always at his side, the writer finds new light loves where he can disguise himself a little, where he feels that Paris welcomes him again amidst real laughter, cradles him in new beds to which he never returns. that passion comparable to nothing.

Impossible love, romantic love, once again turns this leading writer into someone exceptional, into that person that we can all become, that perhaps we once have been.

The simple fact of presenting this story, with the undoubted desire to evoke that transforming love, denotes a willingness of the author to imbue us all with vitalism, with all that being vitalist entails in a world that, despite shining as Paris can, he usually pays with shadows for any attempt to prolong the restorative effect of light, the metaphorical light of Paris or the authentic light of life.

The hidden part of the iceberg

Other recommended books by Máximo Huerta

Paris woke up late

A story from when Paris was the Paris that announced the freedom in which it has been consumed lately. That summit of libertarian ideals and emotions as a paradigm of modernity in all areas. A Paris tailored to an author infatuated with this city of love and light with its shadows.

Alice Humbert is heartbroken. Erno Hessel, the love of her life, has left her to go to New York. We are in Paris, 1924, the city is preparing to host the Olympic Games, founded under the symbol of union and brotherhood. Everything is bustling: the completion of the Basilica of the Sacred Heart, the artistic movements, anarchism, its despair...

The streets explode with joy and Alice lets herself be enveloped little by little; She works as a dressmaker in her shop while writing letters, taking care of her siblings and relying on the protection of her friends, especially on the vitality of the great Kiki de Montparnasse, a luminous woman.

Paris triumphs. Alice too, her designs are becoming famous. Between parties, competitions and attacks, she meets a new man who dazzles her. Everything seems to be going great, but the past returns with secrets and the present takes an unexpected turn. Beauty, passion and happiness can be flames of the same fire, the question is: Alice, do you want to get burned again?

The dream night

Vital inflection points are those stellar moments in which you step outside the established script of your destiny. And childhood is a very given time to violate everything, to disrupt plans and modify what was planned. The consequence is another life, another future, another relationship with your environment. And perhaps guilt, remorse, counterweights to any free act ...

Summary: The novel begins in a fictional town on the Costa Brava called Calabella on San Juan, 1980, on a night when the summer cinema opens with a guest star: Ava Gardner.

A very special day for Justo Brightman, a twelve-year-old boy determined to put into practice a dramatic act that will turn his life upside down. Thirty years later, Justo is a renowned photographer who comes to Rome to celebrate his mother's birthday, determined to tell her the secret of what happened that night of San Juan.

The dream night

The whisper of the conch

The icon, that character who looks at us insultingly from television, from a sign on the street. His life is triumphant, like his smile. We love them and partly hate them for what they represent to our suffocating routine.

With an Almodovarian touch, in this novel we enjoy one of those Misery-type obsessions of Stephen King only, as I say, Spanish style. Summary: Ángeles, a woman who makes a living making small arrangements, walks one afternoon along Gran Vía in Madrid. In front of her, on the other side of the street, she is surprised by the placement of a large movie poster.

There appears Marcos Caballero, the protagonist of the fashion film The happiest days. From that moment on, Ángeles' existence will change radically: she neglects her work, begins to cut out all the photos and reports that appear of Marcos, follows him to parties and even finds out his address.

So until she gets to work as a housekeeper. That will be the moment when their lives intersect for the first time, but Ángeles' life hides as many secrets as those that all the women in her family have had to keep in order to be happy ...

The whisper of the conch
5/5 - (11 votes)

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