The boreal lovers, by Irene Gracia

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Nothing better than a title composed as an ambiguous metaphor to awaken that curiosity about the image represented. It is about knowing how to offer an elusive idea or concept for reason that invites you to read to unravel its nature. Irene Gracia introduces us to «The Boreal Lovers». And immediately ...

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The Conjugal Bedroom, by Éric Reinhardt

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I am one of those who think that it begins by thinking that reading a dramatic novel is not going to give me anything. To suffer, that reality is already recalcitrantly bent on murdering dreams, as Bunbury would say, but my insisting on discarding the tragic may not always be the best option. Because sometimes ...

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If you don't know the lyrics, hum, by Bianca Marais

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Since 1990 South Africa began to come out of apartheid. Nelson Mandela was released from prison and the black political parties had equality in parliament. All this effective social segregation was carried out with the typical reluctance of privileged whites and with the consequent conflicts. Must …

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El Corzo, by Magda Szabó

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There are stories that harbor a continuing sense of Macbethian drama. Eszter's story is that self-fulfilling tragedy, which is the same, a surrender to self-destruction. But it is not a nihilistic idea about the world, quite the contrary. Eszter would like to be, to become like that ...

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Eight, by Rebeca Stones

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In order to write the perfect novel, we would have to find the magical balance that the round work could create. It would then be appropriate to compensate the insolence, vehemence and emotionality of the youth of the writer or writer, with the grounds, the profession and the intellectuality of the adult writer. AND …

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The Potter's Daughter, by José Luis Perales

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I recognize that I have been one of those who have found out not so long ago that José Luis Perales had composed songs for singers from half of Spain. Very great themes associated with the image, the performer, but which are really born from the inspiration of this unparalleled composer in our country. The …

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The girls who dreamed of the sea, by Katia Bernardi

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In the manner of a Decameron revisited since the third age, this story opens us to the drives, to the most personal plots of twelve women who dream of the sea, of the one who could have broken its waves under their youthful feet, although never they will come to visit ...

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Immersion, by JM Ledgard

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JM Ledgard is an English writer who has recently appeared on the world literary scene and could become a mass phenomenon at any moment. After reading his book Immersion, you discover that freshness of the new contribution, that brightness of the different plot. The book is ...

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Beauty is a wound, by Eka Kurniawan

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What could happen to a missing woman for twenty years? If the approach is already suggestive from the perspective of a society like ours, the matter takes a sinister turn if we locate the plot in Indonesia. In this country where religion and government intertwine until complete confusion, ...

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Kes by Barry Hines

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The protagonist of this novel, originally published in 1968, is Billy Casper. But there is another Billy that can serve as a reference to locate this boy from the depressed England of the mines, it is Billy Elliot, that boy dedicated to dancing in the 80s. Both ...

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Return to Birchwood by John Banville

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There are countries like Portugal or Ireland, which seem to carry the label of melancholy in any of their artistic forms. From music to literature, everything is permeated by that scent of decadence and longing. In the book Return to Birchwood, John Banville deals with presenting an invaded Ireland ...

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God does not live in Havana, by Yasmina Khadra

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Havana was a city where nothing seemed to change, except the people who came and went in the natural course of life. A city as anchored in the needles of time, as subject to the honeyed cadence of its traditional music. And there it moved like a fish in the ...

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