Historical novel reviews
If anyone has the magic formula to succeed in the historical fiction genre, it is Santiago Posteguillo (with the permission of a Ken Follet who, although he is much more recognized, it is no less true that he fictionalizes rather than historicizes) And Posteguillo is that perfect alchemist precisely because of his ...
In the continuous process of reinvention of the publishing industry, the contribution of the long sellers that remain as a permanent fund in every bookstore, represent a safe bet to reach more readers in a constant trickle. Consequently, the long-selling novel becomes an enduring product that endures ...
When a book by an Italian author, not yet well known beyond its borders, ends up jumping to the rest of the world with the virulence of what this novel does, it is really because it brings something new. And yes, that is the case of Rosella Postorino and her work «La catadora». ...
"The revolution will be feminist or it will not be" a phrase inspired by Ché Guevara that I bring up and that should be understood in the case of this novel as a necessary historical reconsideration of the figure of women. History is what it is, but I almost always know ...
The bitter awakening of the Second World War was a transit between the echoes of the nightmare. Because, logically, in addition to the war itself, the macabre aroma of an annihilating ideology persisted that had been able to bring out the worst in millions of people, as in a massive abduction. ...
«Magical like One Hundred Years of Solitude, intense like The House of Spirits, monumental like Ana Karenina« A novel that is capable of summarizing aspects of Gabriel García Márquez, from Isabel Allende and of Tolstoy, it points to the universal of the letters. And the truth is that to achieve that ...
hen a journalist like Juan Ramón Lucas, with a long career and also awarded for his performance in different radio and television media, launches himself into the literary world, a transition towards the narrative marked by that vocation of communication, of transmission of intra-stories is always expected , of interest for the ...
The XNUMXth century is already a kind of consolidated past in its entirety. With that melancholic feeling of a deadline for life, this century becomes the place to find stories of all kinds. And those of us who occupy that time, to a greater or lesser extent, discover that yes, that ...
Perhaps the Munich accords of September 30, 1938 were the launching off of the imperialist anxieties of Nazism. The annexation of the Sudetenland to Nazi Germany was that concession to the cause of the Third Reich, prior to the final outbreak of the Second World War, and interpreted by ...
Yesterday is history. In the same way that any decade of the XNUMXth century, however close it may be, is already part of a history that those of us who go through part of this century still feel as part of our lives. And in that dual space between memory and facts ...
The chicha calm before the Great War. Civil society is the last to understand that this state of imposed normality is part of the latency of a war about to manifest itself. Even more so when the war of wars awaited them, that first conflict that they faced ...
Planeta has already launched the latest Fernando Lara novel prize on the market. On this occasion, a fascinating historical novel by Jorge Molist has been selected that by its own title points to many historical aspects of those that always move the world in gear. The epic of ...