Reviews of intimate novels
For writer Jim Lynch, the answer is in the wind. When the moment comes to ask the question, when the existence of all the members of the Johannssen family drifts towards an unforeseen voyage, a regatta in the waters of Seattle is presented to them as an answer to all their…
There are differences between some parents and children that suppose inaccessible slopes through which love seems to fall, or on the contrary, that are unattainable in its escalation. The worst thing is to find yourself in the intermediate zone, without knowing if you are going up or down, with the risk of falling off at all times, ...
Material things can reach, at some point, the significance of the most vivid memory. Melancholy, longing or love can impregnate with their aroma those garments that occupied the bodies that are no longer there. And this happens in a very different way for each person. For Eleonora there are many ...
The return of a cult author such as Paul Auster always arouses enormous expectations in the most demanding fans of literature worldwide. The unique title refers to the four possible lives that the character in the novel may have gone through. And of course, for so much life ...
Recent controversies aside, the truth is that Javier Marías is one of those different authors, capable of bringing chicha to any story, giving everyday scenes an overwhelming weight and depth, while the plot advances with ballerina feet. that, the mind of a creator ...
Not long ago I read The Eve of Almost Everything, the previous novel by Víctor del Árbol, a disturbing story in the tone of a crime novel, which ends up becoming a magnificent universe of personal plots, marked by absences and tragedies. In the book Above the Rain ...
A slow-paced novel that explores the shortcomings of the soul when the person is stripped of the material. The economic crisis, the economic depression gives rise to scenarios where the lack of material support, in a lifestyle based on that, on the tangible, degenerates into gray souls ...
What unites two brothers who have shared a bed since the origin of their primary cells, from that electrical spark that shoots life from an unknown space, becomes the leitmotif of this novel The Same Compass. Twins always wear it naturally. But we, the ...
The most loyal followers of Juan Marsé can find in this book Private Collection one of those spaces of intimate encounter with the author's universe. Pages chosen by Juan Marsé to reveal the most relevant question that an author can ask: Why write? A question that both ...
The true survivors of the wars appear among the punished people who assume their victims as best they can. A child who is taken from his mother on the last day of the Civil War finds in the arms of Mrs. Stendhal his only shelter in which to continue ...
The sixties sounded in Spain like a siren song announcing modernity, open-mindedness and freedom. But the Spanish reality rose like a wall against interference in a morale etched by fire, that of the rifles that still drew gunpowder 30 years later ...
Each expired decade is covered with a kind of nostalgic halo. Especially for those who enjoyed a youth already locked up in the archive of time, in its corresponding section, with its symbols and labels. The 90s breastfed a generation of privileged young people. Good work prospects loomed ...