Since Don Quixote, novels about quirky characters who undertake a real journey and another parallel presentation of their personalities and their special way of seeing the world, have been lavished as a good argument on which to extend in a plot. In the case of the book ...
A certain point of unease pervades this entire novel that deals with the rugged issue of the white slave trade as the origin for the development of its plot. But it is undeniable that sexuality must always overcome everything in order to maintain a full life in the future of a woman ...
Existence can hurt. Setbacks can provoke that feeling of a world that concentrates a somatized pain every new day. This novel is about how the people of Holt cope with pain, The Song of the Plains, by Kent Haruf. True humanity, as a kind of ...
The consequences are an inescapable future derived from a particular dilemma that usually arises by chance. And they are almost always negative, due to the fatality that has taken over the concept of this word. It's the 50's in the United States. For some guys, driving at full speed ...
The thing about the economic interests created, and their ability to break through between the three powers is not as fictional a subject as we might think. And perhaps that is why Grisham's stories end up becoming bedside readings for so many readers. In this book El bribery, ...
After reading a Spanish-style road novel: Tierra de campos, by David Trueba, we jump to other of those plots at the wheel of Héroes de la frontera. Without a doubt, these types of stories are a complete success when it comes to tuning in with the reader. The times …
It is curious how a thriller, turned towards a judicial theme, can offer a more intense reading insofar as it offers us a perspective on Justice as something vulnerable and less blind than it appears to be. It is not that we are so naive as to continue assuming the ...
If recently I was talking about the book Nordic Myths, by Neil Gaiman, with its intermingling point of mythology and literature, this time it is the turn of the book The Wolf's Smile, a work entirely of fiction about one of the most unique historical periods in Europe. from the extreme north. Run …
It has always been said that there is nothing worse than feeling alone being around people. That kind of melancholic admiration for the lives of others, awash in the complete sensation of lack or absence, can be brutally paradoxical. But it is also said that the definition of melancholy is: ...
There is no better hook for a mystery novel than to present a double mystery. I do not know who was the brilliant author who found in this guideline the secret for every self-respecting bestseller. It is about posing an enigma (be it murder in the case of a crime novel or a ...
In my complete opinion, I consider that literary alter egos were rightly invented to be freer. As an eternal budding writer, I confess that a multitude of alter egos circulate like bastard offspring (interesting cacophony) through many of my books. The point is that the author's cameo between its pages ...
Empty Spain, Sergio del Molino's previous book, presented us with a devastated, rather than devastating, perspective on the evolution of a country that went from economic misery to a kind of moral misery. And I highlight the devastated perspective because the exodus of the people from the ...