From Detroit to Triana, by Ken Appledorn

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The title of this novel is already a declaration of intentions, an intention of its author, the actor Ken Appledorn, marked by the desire to convey the most comical part of an initiatory journey, the one that ended up turning a Detroit neighborhood boy in a devotee of ...

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Death Notice, by Sophie Hénaff

Death Notice, by Sophie Henaf

It never hurts to find a crime novel that is capable of offering a point of humor, no matter how contradictory it sounds. It is not an easy task for the author to summarize these two aspects so apparently distant in theme and development. Sophie Henaff dared and succeeded with the first ...

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The Sold Out, by Paul Beatty

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There is a disjointed stream of humor novels between the absurd, the surreal and the tragic. Let's say that I just created this stream myself. It happened to me when I discovered the hilarious coincidences between this book The Soldier by Paul Beatty and the copy Sakamura and tourists without ...

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Where are we going to dance tonight ?, by Javier Aznar

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It often happens to me that reading a book I link concepts with a very different one. In this case, the click jumped and shortly after reading I remembered La unbearable lightness of being, by Milan Kundera. It will be a question of that aroma to the magical moments of life, so rare ...

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Sakamura and tourists without karma, by Pablo Tusset

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You could see it coming. In this novel we discover that the future is a self-fulfilling prophecy. The doomsayers who aimed for the invasion of the eastern will become the new prophets. The hordes of Orientals taking photos were just the reconnaissance patrol. Years later, in a dystopian future, the ...

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