From Inside, by Martin Amis

From Inside, by Martin Amis

Literature as a way of life sometimes explodes with a work that stands on the threshold of the narrative, the chronic and the biographical. And that ends up being the most sincere exercise of the writer who mixes inspirations, evocations, memories, experiences ... Just what Martín Amis offers us in ...

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Hildegarda, by Anne Lise Marstrand-Jørgensen

Hildegarda, the novel

Hildegarda's personality introduces us to the misty space of legend. Only there can the myths of saints and witches inhabit with the same relevance in our days. Because today a miracle to recover a blind man has the same trickery as a spell capable of ...

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Escombros, by Fernando Vallejo

Escombros, by Fernando Vallejo

Everything is susceptible to collapse. Even more so, life as one dodges the controlled explosions of age. Then there are the rubble, of which the important memories were never recovered in time. Because after all, no memory retains touch or voice with ...

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The Immortal Flame by Stephen Crane by Paul Auster

The Immortal Flame by Stephen Crane

The Wild West, as a synecdoche of the American homeland in formation, extended its imaginary, its idiosyncrasy and its forms to an entire gigantic country of disparate sensitivities and beliefs regarding almost everything. Never could something so heterogeneous be suspected that it would be formed in a country like it is today ...

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Looking back, by Juan Gabriel Vásquez

Look back

There is more than something dangerous about today's revolutions. Almost all are imported with the legitimacy of the conviction of the one who vindicates against the one who is silent, although even the silence comes from the silence, from the annihilation of the opposite. Thus one ends up, immersed in the mass, convinced by the arousal ...

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Women of my soul, of Isabel Allende

Women of my soul

Knowing by heart the way to the source of inspiration, Isabel Allende in this work he turns into the existential gibberish of maturity where we all return to what forged our identity. Something that strikes me as very natural and timely, in tune with a recent interview that ...

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Memory exercises, by Andrea Camilleri

Memory exercises

It is curious how in the absence of the author on duty, what could have been a disruptive publication, an extravagance in life, ends up being a rarity for mythomaniacs after his death. But also a whole approach to laymen who perhaps never read the writer who not so long ago left the scene ...

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Fireproof, by Javier Moro

Fireproof

New York fascinates even more when you just visit. Because it is one of the few places that not only maintains expectations but even exceeds them. Especially if you can discover it with good friends who live throughout the heart of the city. No, NY never disappoints. So what …

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The Irishman, by Charles Brandt

The Irishman, by Brandt

In the rescue of one of those good books that at the time already triumphed in the United States but was left for domestic Yankee consumption, De Niro indulged in a non-fiction criminal plot to get that hook of the real thing that captivated millions of viewers. Cast …

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Spy and Traitor, by Ben Macintyre

Spy and traitor book

Since its release in June 2019, this espionage thriller, with large doses not only of realism but of reality, is among the best sellers of its genre. You can check it HERE. And it is that the English historian and columnist Ben Macintyre is a specialist in the most unusual biographies ...

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Mom, by Jorge Fernández Díaz

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The theme of this novel is disguised under the title of a famous song by The Clash, "Should I stay or should I go?" (Should I stay or should I go?) It is because of that connotation to doubt, to that mixture of hope and dark certainty that nothing invites you ...

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