Historical novel reviews
The arrival of the writer Nino with an unpronounceable surname was that unusual popular cyclone for a genre with a large part of historical fiction but loaded with enough sociological and geopolitical connotations as to scare off bestselling readers. The eighth life was an exercise in reconciliation between literature supposedly ...
For a writer of historical fictions, where fiction outweighs the informativeness of history, it is impossible to abstract from civil wars as a setting and argument. Because in that museum of horrors that is every fratricidal confrontation, the most transcendent intrahistory ends up emerging, the flashes of ...
The appearances of novels recovered from the handwriting of the late Philip Kerr always have that unpredictable point of suspense that the Scottish author always maintained. With its component of historical fiction at times; with its doses of espionage in the midst of Nazism or the cold war; until …
When the reissues of the books are released barely 10 years after their original edition, it is happening as with the great music groups, that the growing fans ask for more than what is produced. About the platinum editions and all those techniques of ...
There are novels that confront us with that haunting past that looms over the protagonists. This time it is not so much the past but the shadow of oneself that insists on clinging to his feet despite everything. Because as much as they want to walk new ...
One of the most repeated anecdotes is that of the bullfighter Luis Miguel Dominguín who left scared after a passionate encounter with Ava Gadner. She, the great actress, was surprised to see him rush out of the hotel room and asked him where he was going. He turned ...
The Florio, a powerful dynasty turned legend that left its mark on the history of Italy. Ignazio and Paolo Florio arrived in Palermo in 1799 fleeing poverty and the earthquakes that shook their native land, in Calabria. Although the beginnings are not easy, in a short time ...
After completing his medieval trilogy, the Aragonese Luis Zueco invites us to another exciting journey a century later, when the printing press began to shape a new world. Knowledge was housed in coveted libraries and the knowledge gathered in the growing volumes offered the power, the privileged information of ...
A work that is recovered for the cause of the deepening bibliography of Irene Nemirovsky, already mythical author of world literature. Novel by the writer already consolidated in her profession, loaded with that transcendence of the work that could never be presented due to the unfortunate end that awaited her ...
Historically, Julia Domna lived through her glorious time as a Roman empress for eighteen years. In the literary field, it is Santiago Posteguillo who has recovered it to green those laurels (never better brought the laurel as a Roman symbol of victory par excellence), and incidentally make a feminine ...
Eleventh installment of a series that points to a large bibliography of fiction as a chronicle and intrahistory of the gray historical period from the post-civil war to the extensive Franco dictatorship. A time that allows for many intrahistories in which Jordi Sierra i Fabra finds the perfect setting to spread his ...
In September 1943, the young Ella arrives as a prisoner at the Auschwitz concentration camp, from France. The head of the women's camp, the bloodthirsty SS María Mandel, nicknamed the Beast, discovers that her calligraphy is perfect and incorporates her as a copyist in the Women's Orchestra. Thanks to your …