David Trueba seems to have fictionalized the script for a still unpublished film, a road movie that has taken the reverse path of the typical book-film process. But of course, only a film director can go through this process in the opposite direction film - book and that, in addition, it turns out well. ...
The course of history presents us with unique characters. And Empress Alejandra played a role that historians have been able to measure over the years. Beyond the sparkle, the tinsel and the roles to assume, Alejandra was a special woman. Espido Freire places us few ...
The city of lights also produces, consequently, its shadows. For the protagonist of this story, Paris becomes a space of memories, a melancholic wasteland in the middle of the big city, the same city that once housed happiness and love. For the big Romantics with capital letters of the ...
The purest initiatory journey is the one that moves you to know yourself. If you can also get to know what moves someone who accompanies you on the trip, the route becomes a satisfying transcendental plan, a perfect vital communion. Maybe, in the ...
From the Baztan valley to the Ribeira Sacra. This is the journey of the publication chronology of Dolores Redondo which leads to this novel: «All this I will give you». The dark landscapes coincide, with their ancestral beauty, perfect settings to present very different characters but with similar essence. Tormented souls ...
A whole chasm opens up in the word "Forgiveness." There are those who can jump it for the imperious need for peace, and who doubts what is a leap into oblivion. The forgetfulness of a broken life, the reconciliation with the absence. Bittori he tries to find the answer in front of Txato's grave and in his own dreams. ETA's terrorism served, above all, to generate a civil conflict, from neighbor to neighbor, between the people that ETA itself intended to liberate.
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The starting point of this book is a situation that seems extremely disturbing for all of us who are parents and who meet in the shopping centers spaces where to free our little ones while we browse a shop window.
In that blink in which you lose your sight in a suit, in some fashion accessories, in your long-awaited new television, you suddenly discover that your son is no longer where you saw him in the previous second. The alarm goes off immediately in your brain, the psychosis announces its intense irruption. Children appear, always appear.
But sometimes they don't. Seconds and minutes pass, you walk the bright corridors wrapped in a feeling of unreality. You notice how people watch you move restlessly. You ask for help but no one has seen your little one.
I'm not a monster reaches that fatal moment where you know something has happened, and it doesn't seem like anything good. The plot advances frantically in search of the lost child. The Inspector Ana Arén, aided by a journalist, immediately associates the disappearance with another case, that of Slenderman, the elusive kidnapper of another child.
Anxiety is the predominant sensation of a detective novel with that absolutely dramatic tinge that is assumed in the loss of a child. An almost journalistic treatment of the plot helps in this sensation, as if the reader could share the exclusives of the pages of events where the story is going to unfold.
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Strange times those of the Spanish transition. The perfect setting to present the strange family nucleus of Ángel. The young man moves between the frustration of a father who bet everything on a dream and who is unable to escape failure. The need for a father figure, personified ...
In his work Soldiers of SalamisJavier Cercas makes it clear that beyond the winning faction, there are always losers on both sides of any contest.
In a Civil War there can be the paradox of losing family members positioned in those conflicting ideals that embrace the flag as a cruel contradiction.
Thus, the determination of the ultimate victors, those who manage to hold the flag in front of everything and everyone, those who raise heroic values transmitted to the people as epic stories ends up hiding deep personal and moral miseries.
Manuel Mena he is the introductory character rather than the protagonist of this novel, the link with his predecessor Soldados de Salamina. You begin to read thinking of discovering his personal history, but the details of the skills of the young military man, absolutely rigorous with what happened at the front, fade to give way to a choral stage where incomprehension and pain spread, the suffering of those who understand the flag and the country as the skin and blood of those young people, almost children who shoot each other with the fury of the adopted ideal.
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