Historical novel reviews
In perfect harmony with the novel La maleta de Ana, by Celia Santos, this novel about that truth that never ends tells us about another woman. The fact that in the end it is not she herself who introduces us into her life, but her son Alfredo, contributes a point ...
It never hurts to do a historical review from a more feminist perspective. After centuries of completely silenced voices, it is time to review many moments to complete the scenarios that led us here. But come on, you don't have to go back to the Middle Ages to find debts with him ...
When I began to write my novel "The Arms of My Cross," a uchrony in which Hitler fled to Argentina, I also inquired about another truly illustrious fugitive from Nazism: Josef Mengele. And the truth is that the matter has its crumb ... Whoever was the most aberrant director of ...
Despite being one of the most modern countries, the history of the United States, from that 1776 of its independence and federal establishment, the great North American country has marked a preponderant role in the future of the world. But the federal aspect and its establishment towards self-determination also entailed its ...
Since 1990 South Africa began to come out of apartheid. Nelson Mandela was released from prison and the black political parties had equality in parliament. All this effective social segregation was carried out with the typical reluctance of privileged whites and with the consequent conflicts. Must …
In the worst moments of World War II, hiding was the only hope for German Jews, lost Allied soldiers at the front, or anyone else who needed to escape the Nazi regime. Brussels was one of the cities in which the resistance groups worked best those ...
In the end, the story offers a different vision, a kind of true human brilliance thanks to grotesque and bizarre characters like William Walker. Crazy people convinced by improvised ideals for adventure and who end up revealing the great miseries and underground plans that other supposed great men meditate for their ...
Every political project, no matter how good or bad, always requires two basic starting supports, the popular and the economic. We already know that the breeding ground that was Europe in the interwar period led to the growth of populisms like Hitler's and his established Nazism ...
Until recently, talking about Andrea Camilleri was talking about Commissioner Montalbano. Until, at 92 years old, good old Camilleri has decided to turn around and write a historical and even feminist novel ... Because the figure of Eleonora (or Leonor de Moura y Aragón) in the city ...
Accustomed as we are (probably unaccustomed) to associating Nordic novels with noir genre, it never hurts to take a tour of many other genres developed with success and by good pens in any of these Scandinavian countries. Marie Bennett is a good example of a counter-current writer who cultivates (at least ...
In Spain they were called capons, with that more traditional touch that turns the foreign into something more mundane. Precisely in the case of the castrati, this Spanish term, now in disuse, probably more accurately defined the no less sinister image of the castrated singing children for ...
Stealing children is not the exclusive patent of our country, where unscrupulous nuns and midwives as well as rich people eager to become parents by any means carried out the most sinister robberies, those who traded in new lives taken from their mother's bed. Really the perverse of the human being has ...