The family can be that space full of unspeakable secrets hidden between habit, routine and the passage of time. Felicity, a recent graduate in medicine, is about to orient her medical vocation towards humanitarian tasks. She is young and impulsive, and maintains the kind ideal of helping others, ...
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…
When a mystery novel with overtones of a thriller is presented to us from an everyday aspect, we immerse ourselves even more in the specific plot that is presented to us. That is what happens in the book In the Devil's House. Giulio Terenzi is a routine guy with an ordinary life, ...
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, ...
The ultimate cause of all fear is death. The fact of knowing that we are mortal, expendable, out of date leads us through reason and consciousness to all the fears that we may harbor or develop. And with that Javier Beristain plays in a metaphor of the death of all, ...
There are few who see the apocalypse as the arrival of a huge asteroid that raises eternal dust over the Earth's atmosphere. And that's exactly what this Ben H. Winters novel is announcing. There are barely a few months for everything to end. Our civilization ...
From the first moment, when you start reading this novel, you discover that intention of the author to fully introduce you into the skin of Laura Blacklock. This female character is open from the beginning to produce that chameleon effect, giving room to any reader who is willing to live the ...
Noir novels, thrillers, have a kind of common line, an unspoken pattern for the story to unfold with its greater or lesser degree of intrigue until a twist near the end leaves the reader speechless. In the case of this book Unspeakable Silences, Michael Hjorth allows himself ...
French author Frank Thilliez seems immersed in a prolific stage of creation. He recently spoke of his novel Heartbeats, and now he presents this book to us, Pandemic. Two very different stories, with disparate plots but conducted with similar tension. As for the knot of the plot, the main guideline is that ...
This is not the first novel to present the idea of the end of the male sex in humanity. The idea seems to be taking on a sinister literary appeal in recent literature. Naomi Alderman's latest novel pointed to this end of man, materialized by evolution itself. Although …
Lorenzo Falcó is already another of those star characters that Arturo Pérez Reverte has successfully built for Hispanic literature. Of course, this wicked, cynical and opportunistic guy has nothing to do with the glorious Alatriste, but he is the sign of the times. The hero yields the witness ...
A suggestive title, a question thrown at Nathalie, a girl who wandered lost on the beach, like coming out of the dark sea. Simon cared for her and welcomed her, hoping that the girl could take charge of her life, whatever it may be, once she regains the necessary clarity after the traumatic event ...