Confabulation, by Carlos Del Amor

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When I started reading this novel I thought I was going to find myself halfway between Chuck Palahniuk's Fight Club and the movie Memento. In a sense, that's where the shots go. Reality, fantasy, reconstruction of reality, the fragility of memory ... But in this ...

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Land of fields, by David Trueba

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David Trueba seems to have fictionalized the script for a still unpublished film, a road movie that has taken the reverse path of the typical book-film process. But of course, only a film director can go through this process in the opposite direction film - book and that, in addition, it turns out well. ...

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Call me Alejandra, by Espido Freire

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The course of history presents us with unique characters. And Empress Alejandra played a role that historians have been able to measure over the years. Beyond the sparkle, the tinsel and the roles to assume, Alejandra was a special woman. Espido Freire places us few ...

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The hidden part of the iceberg, by Màxim Huerta

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The city of lights also produces, consequently, its shadows. For the protagonist of this story, Paris becomes a space of memories, a melancholic wasteland in the middle of the big city, the same city that once housed happiness and love. For the big Romantics with capital letters of the ...

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All this I will give you, of Dolores Redondo

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From the Baztan valley to the Ribeira Sacra. This is the journey of the publication chronology of Dolores Redondo which leads to this novel: «All this I will give you». The dark landscapes coincide, with their ancestral beauty, perfect settings to present very different characters but with similar essence. Tormented souls ...

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Patria, by Fernando Aramburu

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A whole chasm opens up in the word "Forgiveness." There are those who can jump it for the imperious need for peace, and who doubts what is a leap into oblivion. The forgetfulness of a broken life, the reconciliation with the absence. Bittori he tries to find the answer in front of Txato's grave and in his own dreams. ETA's terrorism served, above all, to generate a civil conflict, from neighbor to neighbor, between the people that ETA itself intended to liberate.

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Patria, by Fernando Aramburu

Farm Rebellion by George Orwell

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The fable as a tool to compose a satirical novel about communism. Farm animals have a clear hierarchy based on indisputable axioms.

Pigs are the most responsible for the customs and routines of a farm. The metaphor behind the fable gave much to talk about its reflection in different political systems of the time.

The simplification of this personalization of animals exposes all the pitfalls of authoritarian political systems. If your reading is only looking for entertainment, you can also read under that fabulous structure.

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The Divine Comedy, by Dante Alighieri

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The allegory made complete and full work. We are all Dante, and life is a passing through heaven and hell, a worldly passport that is sealed in the soul. We wander in circles around our destiny, a destiny that cannot be understood without the philosophy that must accompany each moment to assume the wisdom that remains at the end, a wisdom that, in any way, does not become ours until we leave the path. circulate around ourselves.

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Les Miserables, by Victor Hugo

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The justice of men, war, hunger, the cynicism of those who look the other way ... Jean Valjean suffers, but at the same time flies over, all those tragic circumstances that a literary drama needs to move. Good old Jean is the hero, among the social filth that existed in the nineteenth century in which the story takes place, but that extends to any other historical moment. Hence the easy mimicry with this character for universal literature.

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The Picture of Dorian Gray, by Oscar Wilde

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Can a painting reflect the soul of the person portrayed? Can a person look at his portrait as if it were a mirror? Could mirrors be a hoax that they don't show what's on the other side, on your side? Dorian Gray He knew the answers, the positive and the negative.

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Perfume, by Patrick Süskind

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Rediscover the world under the nose of Jean Baptiste Grenouille it seems essential to understand the balance between good and evil of our instincts. Searching for essences with his privileged nose, the unfortunate and disowned Grenouille feels able to synthesize with his alchemy the fascinating aroma of God himself.

He dreams that one day, those who ignore him today will end up prostrating before him. The price to pay for finding the irresistible essence of the Creator, which resides in each beautiful woman, in their wombs where life germinates, can be more or less expensive, depending on the final effect of the aroma achieved ...

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