The 3 best books of Almudena Grandes

Books of Almudena Grandes

In his meritorious literary evolution, Almudena Grandes He played various keys of an always intense narrative. It is not the same to approach a plot with erotic overtones or focus on vindictive aspects or start with a historical fiction. And it certainly never seemed to be a matter of marketing impositions but of creative impulses ...

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Everything is going to get better Almudena Grandes

Everything is going to get better, Almudena Grandes

Draw on uchronies or dystopias to provide a sociological vision. A very common resource in literature. From Aldous Huxley to George Orwell, as the most recognized references of a XNUMXth century that pointed precisely to a world peeking out at another type of dictatorship, buried beyond what is strictly political. …

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Frankstein's mother, from Almudena Grandes

Frankstein's mother

I always find the etymology of the word hysteria curious. Because it comes from the womb in Greek. And so the easy and abhorrent association of the feminine with the insane by nature is easily derived. Aberrant. Almudena Grandes in this novel is fixed in a particular female psychiatric that existed in ...

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The patients of Dr. García, from Almudena Grandes

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A novel by Almudena Grandes which focuses on the historical period after the end of the Spanish Civil War. With the Franco dictatorship already established and consolidated in the XNUMXs, many dissident Spaniards continue with their lives, escaping as best they can from the tight control of the Regime. William …

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The kisses on the bread, from Almudena Grandes

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The economic crisis and the undeniable parallel crisis of values ​​is already a choral story. A microcosm of silenced voices amid cold statistics. Data and more data conveniently cooked for the pride of economic interests and political clappers of all kinds. The kisses in the ...

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