Reviews of intimate novels
What better title is just… light, light, and sibilantly pretentious than this one? Before you die, yes, just a few hours before listening to it, you will take your list of essential books and cross out the best-seller by Belén Esteban that closes the reading circle of your life... (it was a joke, a macabre and bloody joke) No...
The moment when life forks. The dilemmas imposed by simple chance, by destiny or by a God enchanted to repeat the scene of Abraham with that of his son Isaac, only with unpredictable variations of the ending. The point is that it seems as if the existence...
The cold is capable of freezing time in a place like Iceland, already shaped by its nature as an island suspended in the North Atlantic, equidistant between Europe and America. What has been a singular geographical accident to narrate the ordinary with exceptionality for the rest...
Every tree has its fruit. From the apple tree with its ancient temptations, enough to throw us out of paradise, to the common fig tree with its uncommon fruits loaded with symbolism between the erotic and the sacred, depending on how you look at it and, above all, depending on who is looking at it... A story in the …
The everyday is a common space for every human being. From the inside doors of each house, stripped of the disguise of the moment, the characters that we are become the most certain of existence. And Anne Tyler dedicates her work to that kind of fuller introspection, which ...
Looking for a story that addresses this universe that is unfolding in nascent human relationships, Jonathan Coe deals for his part in the exquisiteness of the most introspective details. That yes, Coe cannot abandon that detailed preciousness that contextualizes with the most complete descriptions. From …
Reunions can be as bitter as second chances in love. Old friends strive to regain a space that no longer exists to do things that no longer belong. Not for anything in particular, just because deep down they do not satisfy, but simply seek ...
There was a time when Europe was an uncomfortable world to be born in, where children came into the world amidst nostalgia, uprooting, alienation and even the fear of their parents. Today the matter has shifted to other parts of the planet. The question is to take that view ...
Who else who least released a tear with Marco's adventures in search of his mother. This time the age of the protagonist, Lobo, would bring him closer to a Holden Caulfield (yes, Salinger's famous nihilistic teenager). And the thing is that also the figure of the mother ...
Every story needs two parts if it is to find a kind of synthesis, which is what it is about in any framework that ventures into the territory of emotional mimicry. It is not a question of highlighting this type of dual narratives in front of the first person. Because also ...
There are times when language accompanies a story with the most precise lightness. Because searching for a disappeared person does not require lyrical or artifice. Narrative sobriety makes this path to personal reunion a composition of verisimilitude and proximity to bring us closer to all ...
Fine-tuning in the reading, currently a certain narrative harmony is discovered between Eloy Moreno and Albert Espinosa. Because both draw their novels with that stamp of the authentic around the stridency of living and their unsuspected final symphonies of the most fascinating. It would be something like that, while ...