Dramatic novel reviews
The feeling that the trains pass is not something so alien or pilgrim. It usually happens to every mortal who at some point meditates on what did not go quite right. The perspective can sink you or make you strong, it all depends on whether you are able to extract something positive ...
A sinister allegory of women today. Said like this it may sound like a pretentious judgment, but so are subjective impressions. And it never hurts to say them to start a debate about a work of fiction with a certain point of complaint and controversy. In the book In state ...
The African-American author Colson Whitehead apparently abandons his tendency to the fantastic, addressed in recent works such as Zone One, to immerse himself fully in a story about freedom, survival, human cruelty and the struggle to overcome all limits. Of course, the baggage ...
Relatively recently I reviewed the novel The Sun of Contradictions, by Eva Losada. And this book Better the Absence, written by another author, abounds in a similar theme, perhaps clearly disparate due to the differentiating fact of the location, of the setting. In both cases it is about making a drawing ...
A story that invites you to regain faith. Nothing to do with a religious belief. It is more about faith in the magic of life, to which you can only return with the eyes of the child. The look of the kid you see running around now ...
It is perverse to know each other under what circumstances. It is likely that from the disastrous moment in which you meet someone in an adverse circumstance, every time you see their face, you relive the ordeal that united you to him / her. But at the same time there is some essential humanity in the ...
Unconsciousness is a common point for every child, adolescent ..., and most adults. In the book My True Story, Juan José Millás lets a twelve-year-old teenager tell us the details of his life, with a deep secret that he cannot do ...
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 title of this novel has its crumb. Knowing that we are presented with a story of survival in the middle of World War II, this title tells us about the peremptory nature of life in those circumstances, about improvisation to survive, from decisions with an environment to last decisions ..., in short, ...
When you experience a war, you don't always escape it by leaving the conflict zone. In the aseptic consideration of this last term, other concepts existed before, such as: house, childhood, home or life ... Heda left her home or conflict zone accompanied by her family. The promise of ...
I recently spoke about the novel by Javier Cercas, "The monarch of the shadows", in which we were told the vicissitudes of a young military man named Manuel Mena. The thematic coincidence with this new work by Lorenzo Silva makes clear a will of the writers to bring to light ...
Whether or not it was worth making a decision is a question that tends to be raised in the future with advantageous overtones or at least with a more practical and less sentimental perspective. What happened in Attua's youth and that changed the course of his life had to do ...