Malandar, by Eduardo Mendicutti

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A singularly paradoxical aspect in the transition to maturity is that feeling that those who accompanied you in a happy time may end up being distant light years from you, your way of thinking or your way of seeing the world. Much has been written about this paradox. I …

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The exposed nature, by Erri de Luca

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A very accurate definition to describe our deepest truth. The exposed nature would be something like turning our skin to expose the internal forum of each one with the motivations and beliefs that forge the crucible of the will. An intention that, however, is conformed as ...

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Country girls trilogy. by Edna O´Brien

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Great works are imperishable. The Country Girls Trilogy transcends from its original publication in 1960 to today with the same depth and validity. It is about the human, about friendship, about the female perspective of the world, with its obstacles and why not, also with its ...

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Apricot Time, by Beate Teresa Hanika

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Intergenerational encounters are always enriching. And in the literary field it is a fruitful space in which the richness of the human can emerge, a kind of synthesis between past, present and future. Although, really past and future are always the same shadow. Elisabetta has a lot of past, a past tense of ...

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The Villa of Fabrics, by Anne Jacobs

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The awakening of the twentieth century is probably one of the most literary stages of history in Europe, a continent that began the last century of the second millennium surrounded by constant evolution and a marked geopolitical and social upheaval. Modernity loomed on the horizon with industrialization, development, technology ..., of the ...

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The Potter's Daughter, by José Luis Perales

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I recognize that I have been one of those who have found out not so long ago that José Luis Perales had composed songs for singers from half of Spain. Very great themes associated with the image, the performer, but which are really born from the inspiration of this unparalleled composer in our country. The …

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The Invisibles, by Roy Jacobsen

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In the deepest recesses one can feel free from any interference. Without a doubt, one can be free in the small, despite the fact that a kind of restlessness always encourages the knowledge of new spaces, of new people. Happiness is a balance between what you have and what you want, ...

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The Liars Club, by Mary Karr

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Who has not heard that "I have to write a novel"? There are few who answer you like this when you ask them, how's that going? or what is your life? or, in the worst case, without even having asked them. We all have to write a novel, ...

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The Last Gift of Paulina Hoffmann, by Carmen Dorr

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In this book The Last Gift of Paulina Hoffmann we revisit the Second World War to immerse ourselves in one of those personal stories that emerge between the physical rubble of the city of Berlin and between the gray misery that uniformed the souls of so many victims on the inside. Paulina ...

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The merchants, by Ana María Matute

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When we still long for the disappeared Ana María Matute, the Planeta publishing house has been busy preparing an interesting volume with some of her most representative works. A set of three novels from the most intense and delicate Matute universe. A trilogy already configured like this in its beginnings but presented in ...

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The Inner Life of Martin Frost, by Paul Auster

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The Planeta publishing house has launched, through its Booket label, one of those books for those who want to get closer to the world of the writer or for those who dream of being able to dedicate themselves to writing professionally. This is The Inner Life of Martin Frost. I personally prefer the book of Stephen King, While …

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Opinions of a clown, by Heinrich Böll

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The life of Hans Schnier has stopped for the reader. In the absence of an introspection exercise of his own, the now-defunct Heinrich Böll offers us a glimpse into the detained life of this unique character Hans Schnier. The truth is that the ...

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