The 3 best books by Luis García Jambrina

García Jambrina is one of those total writers who spread his narrative imprint between different genres with the sufficiency of will at the service of ingenuity.

In his literary development, this Zamora writer as soon as he constructs a great series of historical fiction as he changes registers to become a noir author, finally manifesting himself as a metaliterary essayist, extending the vision and value of literature to every living space.

As the great namesake of this author said, Don louis landero: «Childhood is happiness, adolescence is love and the rest is literature». And whoever has literature in adulthood, from whatever prism, is fulfilled to a greater extent than whoever dispenses with it.

And that is what good Luis is about, cultivating as essentially writing is, to harvest oneself and to invite those who are willing to read to harvest.

Top 3 recommended novels by Luis García Jambrina

The fire manuscript

An undoubted aspect of a historical novel but with shades of black genre surrounds the approach and the plot. The Salamanca town of Béjar becomes the scene for an intriguing murder case. The journey towards the knowledge of what happened, the unpinning of the clues and clues serve in turn for a setting in XNUMXth century Spain and characters and moments from that still splendid historical moment of the old Spanish empire.

Characters such as Fernando de Rojas (capital of course in this new installment of the series) and his young assistant Alonso happen to be the detectives in use at the time, but with clear evocations of Sherlock Holmes or Guillermo de Baskerville himself, that wonderful friar from The Name of the Rose. The invented characters revolve around the real character of Don Francés de Zúñiga, the deceased.

But the novel is not only intrigue but also knowledge of our past, the prevailing morality and the loopholes to be able to “sin” behind that strict morality. Summary: Béjar, February 2, 1532. Don Francés de Zúñiga, old Buffoon of Emperor Charles V, is stabbed in the middle of the night by several strangers.

The empress entrusts the investigation of the case to Fernando de Rojas, who is close to his sixtieth birthday. Through his research, we will learn about the life of the controversial and irreverent Don Francés, as well as the ins and outs of a time as fascinating as it is scandalous. To solve this case, Rojas will have the help of Alonso, a young student; With it, he will have to face numerous obstacles and various challenges, such as searching for a very mysterious manuscript or trying to decipher one of the most enigmatic works of European art and architecture: the façade of the University of Salamanca.

The fire manuscript

In the land of wolves

There was a time when the voice of the most gloomy events in Spain had the voice of a woman. Perhaps a necessary counterpoint come from the sufficiency of a woman determined to exercise her vision of journalism, surely an opportunity to exercise feminism from the fait accompli when being a feminist sounded outrageous.

Inspired by Margarita Landi, the famous reporter from The case, Aurora Blanco is an unforgettable character. March 1953, a woman is run over on a regional road in the province of Salamanca. A few hours later, the orderly from the hospital in the capital called Aurora Blanco, a well-known crime reporter from Madrid, to inform her that the victim was already injured before being run over. When the journalist arrives at the hospital, the woman has disappeared.

Thus begins a novel full of intrigue and crimes that is also a portrait of the murky and gray Spain of the fifties, a country where, according to the propaganda of the time, nothing ever happened, and, when it did, the sewers of the State They took great care to hide it. Shaken and intrigued by the circumstances surrounding the case, Aurora Blanco will try to do justice to the victims and reveal the truth, even if it means putting her life and work at risk.

In the land of wolves

The stone manuscript

The first installment of a historical series that has taken us through disparate scenarios always by the hand of a Fernando de Rojas transmuted from his role as a writer to one derived from his real practice as a jurist.

Mystery, intrigue and culture, The stone manuscript it is a window to pre-Renaissance Salamanca, the true epicenter of the knowledge of the time. At the end of the XNUMXth century, Fernando de Rojas, a law student at the University of Salamanca, must investigate the murder of a professor of Theology.

Thus begins a complex plot in which the situation of the Jews and converts, the unleashed passions, the heterodox doctrines, the emerging Humanism, the hidden and underground Salamanca and the History and legend of a fascinating city in a time of great turmoil and change. On his way, Rojas will have to solve some enigmas and avoid various traps until he discovers what is hidden under appearances. To do this, he will have to move through a real and ghostly topography at the same time, through a labyrinth full of surprises and dangers, with which his investigation will become an adventure of initiation and learning from which he will emerge radically transformed.

The stone manuscript participates in the historical, detective, mystery, campus novel ... but at the same time transcends all those genres, thanks to its symbolic scope. Luis García Jambrina offers us a story in favor of Humanism, freedom and tolerance, a tribute to the author of La Celestina and a gallery of unforgettable characters. A gripping and winking story told with intelligence, vividness and great doses of irony and intrigue.

The stone manuscript
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