The Song of the Living and the Dead, by Jesmyn Ward

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An interesting Afro-American literary and critical trend extends since Toni Morrison was recognized as the brilliant storyteller that she is in the eighties, in that hybrid of fiction and realism that welcomes fictionalized lives in highly recognizable social environments and where they still survive with intensity. notions ...

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The President's Gardens, by Muhsin Al-Ramli

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Amid the emptiness of the modern world, the most intense stories about human aspects come from the most unsuspected places, from those spaces in which the human being suffers from submission and alienation. Because only in the necessary rebellion, in the critical notion of everything that surrounds the ...

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The Man with Dynamite, by Henning Mankell

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Long live the work of genius. Even if it is through reissues that recover that great reference of the black genre that was Henning Mankell. Because what we find on this occasion is that disruptive or rather exploratory debut for being the first, a true jewel ...

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A criminal novel, by Jorge Volpi

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That Jorge Volpi is a narrator aware of his closest reality is not something new. In his previous book Against Trump, he already gave a good account of what Trump's xenophobic ideology implies for his country, Mexico. It is not a question of ranting just because, Volpi confers on his ...

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