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There is an I don't know what fatal premonition in every calm and peaceful scene, away from the madding crowd. In a kind of desert, among cacti and crickets, Elmer and Rose survive with their five daughters. Life beats at a leisurely pace, reality passes with the cadence ...
On some other occasion I have already spoken about unspeakable loves, specifically for the review of The Book of Parables, by Olov Enquist. In this case we also find large doses of forbidden love taken to the extreme of the moral and the natural, as we are generally given to understand. ...
Are you a runner? In other words, if you like to go jogging from time to time ... If so, this is your novel. For the first time sport and thriller come together as a fascinating whole. And the result, shocking ... In the book Run to the end of the world you will use the same ...
The sixties sounded in Spain like a siren song announcing modernity, open-mindedness and freedom. But the Spanish reality rose like a wall against interference in a morale etched by fire, that of the rifles that still drew gunpowder 30 years later ...
Faced with a battle tank, the reincarnation of David tried to put his life before the advance of the "Goliath" tanks towards what he should consider the inalienable space of freedom of the Chinese people: Tiananmen Square. We all keep that image alive as one of the most representative ...
Whenever I undertake a novel, book or even some tourist infomercial about Egypt, the great novel by José Luis Sampedro comes to mind: The Old Mermaid. Thus, any novel has a lot to lose in comparison. But the truth is that soon I park that unique reference and ...
When at the time I read the book The Eve of Almost Everything, by Víctor del Árbol, I considered the undoubted literary contribution that a profession such as police can give. Work in the street, in direct search of the scenarios where the crudest aspects of our ...
Another powerful voice reaches the publishing market with a new proposal. Wit and talent are not the heritage of any author. And arrivals like Anna Snoekstra's become a remarkable literary event. In this case in the genre of mystery novels. The only daughter book ...
There is more than one analogy between this book The Substance of Evil and the bestseller The Truth About The Harry Quebert Affair. I do not mean by this that the books replicate their plots. I don't mean that at all. It's just curious, to begin with, that the title of this novel ...
Getting out of the box is never easy. The labeling of a writer, musician, actor or any other artist serves for a popular cataloging, a standardization in the manner of a consumer product. Stephenie Meyer has manifested herself as a brave writer who seeks more her own evolution as a writer than simple contentment ...
The Orán manuscript, with the supposed vital testimony of Cervantes, becomes a vein to pose a very concrete scenario of the life of the universal writer Miguel de Cervantes. Based on this fictitious discovery of the Algerian city, Álvaro Espina complements an exciting biography, insofar as ...
Female narrative, how fed up with the tagline ... Something similar happened to me when I read the official promo for the novel Una familia imperfecta, by the great author Pepa Roma. There may be literary genres, of course! I agree. But calling a type of narrative feminine is so clumsy because ...