3 best books by Roberto Santiago

I have always argued that the writers of children's and youth literature they end up exploiting a wit, an empathic capacity and narrative resources that predispose them towards the potential writer for adults. Cases like You just have to find the moment, if you feel like it, and take the leap.

The moment of Robert Santiago In the adult novel, he arrived in 2017 with a thriller titled Ana, as I say, with no previous antecedents in the genre by this author. Although back in 2014 a novel came out with hints of historical fiction about the battle of the Ebro, it was not until the arrival of Ana that it was released with total ease in new creative paths.

And the result of Ana was that of a highly valued work, a great door for a bet by Editorial Planeta that also knew how to see that ability to jump between genres; for the individual hardened of a trade that is usually more successful from the narrative for children to the adult novel than in the opposite direction.

But it is that, in addition, a foray into the previous bibliography leads us through wonderful stories brimming with ingenuity in environments that dazzle young readers because of their very close theme, especially revolving around sports, but at the same time capable of fully entering in that literature towards values.

So this ranking will combine my favorites in a heterogeneous mix but always recommended for one type of reader or another.

Top 3 recommended books by Roberto Santiago

Ana

It is truly fascinating how today's gambling whitening is proceeding. Under the friendly faces of celluloid or sports, the "companies" (companies to call them in some way although they really do not do more than dirty any qualifier) ​​dedicated to gambling monopolize publicity with total impunity at any time, especially looking for defenseless young people, exposing them to the risk of a devastating disease. The Administration looks the other way.

But hey, that's another topic, or at least the reality reflected in this novel is another topic. Ana is a fledged lawyer. His brother Alejandro is a blurry memory of his early childhood turned into a prodigal son and brother. You may feel estranged from your family for whatever reasons, as happens to a defeated Ana. But a brother's claim always ends up turning, if only for what it used to be ...

Your brother has gotten into serious trouble. The burden of a homicide weighs on him, pointing to an easy case and a harsh sentence. Ana is impelled to resurface like the phoenix, like that great lawyer that she was.

Parking the fears, doubts and guilt is never easy. But once you have achieved that all that negativity accompanies you only when you relapse into weakness, you can go back to being who you were, although only due to the imperative of the circumstances.

In the middle of the case stands the monstrous figure of the gambling empire, with its firm ramifications at a base of the political system. Justice is Ana's last hope, but the flagrant error in her brother's accusation must be clearly exposed in order to have any guarantee against the most vicious teams of lawyers. And to reveal the truth, Ana must be ready for anything ...

Ana

The very football

I do not know how many deliveries this series has, which has already become a generational reference for many boys of our days.

Soccer is a great claim to get them into great adventures, in excitement, in team values. But the way of facing each plot of the saga invites on many occasions to deep reflection on many values ​​such as the integration of others, empathy, also competitiveness as an exercise in personal improvement in the first instance.

A set of stories that can always be read with our little ones to enjoy entertaining narratives while establishing so many blurred values ​​today.

The very football

Ivan's dream

I have to admit that I never played soccer. I was always chosen second to last or last in my schoolyard draft. My thing was basketball. And yet I began to fall in love with football thanks to a very special book «Senén«.

It was a story about a border boy, as you could say then. And it turned out that this child was transformed into a preview of Forrest Gump who was successful in soccer. My first soccer idol was, then, Senén.

And this book reminded me a bit of that explicitly moving intention of soccer as a sport for children where the important thing was to see the impossible as a feasible goal with effort or union. Only then can the boys of the boys' team face the best footballers in the world with any hope of victory.

Although the last victory is surely hidden in the learning of a fixed match in order to raise money for the victims of an earthquake.

Ivan's dream

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The rebellion of the good

According to the philosopher Edmund Burke, "For evil to triumph, it is only necessary that good men do nothing." A maxim with all the weight of reason. But the good guys on so many occasions have been subdued by the fear that they themselves would be incapable of infringing, that it is not at all easy for the necessary revolution to take place. Let's live it at least in literature. Let's learn again from the parable of an increasingly smaller David against an increasingly wise and threatening Goliath.

Fátima Montero, owner of one of the most powerful pharmaceutical emporiums in the world, hires the irreverent lawyer Jeremías Abi to handle her multi-million dollar divorce. She wounded her pride after learning that her husband and her partner has a loving relationship with a minor, she only wants to destroy him, but something very shady is hidden under her order.

Abi, who has also been deceived by his ex-wife and lives under threats, discovers terrible illegalities in the pharmaceutical's methods: tests with human guinea pigs, extortion, blackmail and scams. He and his firm are close to bankruptcy, but his desire for justice exceeds all limits: they are preparing to face a multinational with long tentacles, even if that requires looking directly into the eyes of evil.

The rebellion of the good
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