The 3 best books by Alfonso del Río

Books by Alfonso del Río

A good mystery writer with a vocation for thrillers must be able to transfer that notion of verisimilitude over so much strange component that surrounds us. Because, as much as we have a supposed efficient and empirical answer for each need, what ends up happening does not always depend on controllable variants. On …

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The hidden language of books, by Alfonso del Río

The hidden language of books

I remember Ruiz Zafón. It happens to me whenever I discover a novel that points to the esoteric aspect of books, to hidden languages, to that aroma of wisdom gathered on endless shelves, perhaps in new cemeteries of books ... And it is good that it be so. The vast imagination of the Catalan writer ...

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The city of rain, by Alfonso del Río

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Bilbao as a rainy city is a typical image that can have its days numbered thanks to climate change. But the imaginary already has this great city cataloged in this way, so the synecdoche or metaphor of "city of rain" still works perfectly. But back in the 80s ...

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