Those of one side and those of another, the national martyrs or the red martyrs. Sometimes it seems that the question is to discern who killed more or more viciously. Justice is not a question of quantifying but of making reparations, and we are still working on it today. But in …
When one has been hardened in the first novels of Stephen King, those filled with terror that he wrote in the prolific 80s, finding a good horror novel today is not an easy task. But the young author Malenka Ramos, skillfully approaches that narrative knowledge ...
A novel by Almudena Grandes which focuses on the historical period after the end of the Spanish Civil War. With the Franco dictatorship already established and consolidated in the XNUMXs, many dissident Spaniards continue with their lives, escaping as best they can from the tight control of the Regime. William …
The focus of this novel by Amélie Nothomb, its cover, its synopsis, reminded me of the setting of the first Hitchcock. That esoteric touch that slipped through the cosmopolitan life of cities in the early twentieth century. And the truth is that there was nothing wrong with my interpretation at first sight. ...
The return of a cult author such as Paul Auster always arouses enormous expectations in the most demanding fans of literature worldwide. The unique title refers to the four possible lives that the character in the novel may have gone through. And of course, for so much life ...
Recent controversies aside, the truth is that Javier Marías is one of those different authors, capable of bringing chicha to any story, giving everyday scenes an overwhelming weight and depth, while the plot advances with ballerina feet. that, the mind of a creator ...
A feminist slogan like: women to power, takes absolute force in this novel The Power. But it is not a social claim, or a wake-up call to achieve equality. In this case, power happens to be an evolutionary improvement of women, a kind of ...
If Ken Follett or Dan Brown announce a new novel, the literary world trembles. Beyond the most purist critics or the most erudite readers, fiction finds authors like these, adding some other as Stephen King, to those best sellers that revive the literary market. If all readers ...
Everything that is science fiction mixed with a good plot in a thriller style, has won me over before starting. As a sample serve this recent reading. If the story also focuses on recognizable environments, honey on flakes. Spain in 2065 is largely a kind of wasteland ...
The detective novel appears today dispersed between black novels and thrillers, that is, with a component of a certain gore, which is recreated in darkening nuances of the plot. Karin Fossum herself has leaned into this trend, in a shameless way, in this fourth installment for her ...
The supposed setting from which this novel started, commercially presented as "a world populated by the most abject characters in history" caught my attention. Because when it comes to writing about abject characters, one already has their experience. What the book The Door of Darkness does is ...
International politics gives a lot of play, also in literature. And authors like Brad Thor know how to take full advantage of this type of approach to present a singular intrigue that moves between the appearances of diplomacy and the dirty game that undermines that theater of understanding between ...