The 3 best books of the marvelous Lorenzo Silva

Books of Lorenzo Silva

One of the most popular writers lately on the Spanish literary scene is Lorenzo Silva. In recent years, this author has been publishing books of a very different nature, from historical novels such as They will remember your name to documentaries such as Blood sweat and peace. Not forgetting its regular ...

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The flame of Phocaea, of Lorenzo Silva

The flame of Phocaea, of Lorenzo Silva

There comes a time when the writer's creativity is unleashed. to the good of Lorenzo Silva gives him the opportunity to present novelties of historical fiction, essays, crime novels and other memorable collaborative works such as his latest four-handed novels with Noemi Trujillo. But he never hurts to recover...

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Castilian, from Lorenzo Silva

Castilian, from Lorenzo Silva

It is a fairly frequent phenomenon to find authors of all kinds who end up landing in the black genre in search of that vein of the best-selling literary niche. What is less frequent is discovering a whole superstar of the most traditional noir in Spanish venturing into a different genre. But …

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The evil of Corcira, of Lorenzo Silva

The evil of Corcira

The tenth case of Bevilacqua and Chamorro leads them to solve a crime that transports the second lieutenant to his past in the fight against terrorism in the Basque Country. A new installment of this great series of Lorenzo Silva. A middle-aged man appears naked and brutally murdered in a ...

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If this is a woman, of Lorenzo Silva and Noemí Trujillo

If this is a woman

Primo Levi himself would be proud of the title of this novel that evokes the beginning of his trilogy on Auschwitz. Because, apart from exceptions on contexts, the cruelty of the exposure of the human being in the last instance, to the most evil of the human being himself, as I already wrote in a similar sense ...

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Far from the heart, from Lorenzo Silva

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A writer can only write so many good books, in such a short span of time, by possessing devils made muses. In just one year, Lorenzo Silva has presented the novels They will remember your name and So many wolves, while he has also written the book Blood, sweat and peace and ...

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Black times, by various authors

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Various voices offer us black stories, police, small scripts taken from real settings, the opposite approach to the usual ... Because reality does not exceed fiction, it simply supplants it. Reality is a deception, at least that which is limited to power, interests, politics more and more every day ...

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So many wolves, of Lorenzo Silva

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The counterweight of this era of connection and technological benefits is lack of control and new channels to enhance the worst of the human being. The networks become an uncontrollable channel for violence and abuse, more marked in our young people, who, devoid of filters and ...

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They will remember your name, of Lorenzo Silva

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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 ...

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The impatient alchemist, from Lorenzo Silva

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Nadal Award of the year 2000. This crime novel penetrates the case of a mysterious death in a roadside motel room. There is no apparent blood or violence. But the shadow of suspicion provokes the pertinent investigation, in charge of Sergeant Bevilacqua and the Chamorro guard. ...

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The weakness of the Bolshevik, of Lorenzo Silva

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Chance as the only justification to fix an insane obsession. Disenchantment, boredom, and animosity can turn a person into a potential murderer. Envy for being what others have become, and that the protagonist of this story will never be, grows and ...

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