In the continuous process of reinvention of the publishing industry, the contribution of the long sellers that remain as a permanent fund in every bookstore, represent a safe bet to reach more readers in a constant trickle. Consequently, the long-selling novel becomes an enduring product that endures the comings and goings of the fleeting shots of those other bestsellers, which end up dying of success after an explosive irruption.
What does it take to get a long seller? Without a doubt, have an author like Julia Navarro, capable of building a very weighty plot; with varied scenarios; with a prodigiously magnetic cadence in a prolonged development and that also offers an imperishable plot.
History can always become the setting where to build a novel that is sustained at all times. In the past we find timeless readings with which to enjoy and that, after the boiling of the novelty, can maintain a level of sales towards the ideal of the classic that always continues to circulate. Of course, to tell something different you have to insert the intrahistory capable of adjusting to the facts while awakening new emotions and unexpected turns.
Julia Navarro was born as a writer, already being a long seller, just over a decade ago, at the same time as other Spanish long sellers with very different proposals such as Ruiz Zafon o Maria Dueñas They also began to set the tone for the triumphant maintenance of their works in a range of sales that a multitude of authors would already like for their greatest specific successes.
So the arrival of "You will not kill" already sounds like a success with a path of continuity. It is undoubtedly a book built with that aftertaste of a fictionalized chronicle of hard times very close, where the contrast of happiness or passion resounds like intense echoes in the darkness of a twentieth century moved between hot or cold wars that violated the world. western to the blow of dictatorships, conflicts and violence.
Through Fernando, Catalina and Eulogio we relive a time that, from direct testimonies from those who lived through it, seems to belong to us. From the Civil War to the end of the Second World War the whole world moved with greater or less intensity under the same anxiety. And it is then, when reality falters, the moment in which the most gleaming signs of humanity sprout in its opposite sides of kindness or monstrosity. Because everything is human, the best and worst of our species is.
Around the three protagonists and on three universal urban settings such as Madrid, Paris or the mystical Alexandria, we delve into all those nuances of humanity that can comprise the most courageous love opposed to the contrast of violence and death.
From both drives, as disparate as love or crime can be, they end up deriving indelible marks that in the end is what rescues this story of vivid settings, occupied by a diversity of characters that make up a cosmos of unforgettable impressions on the most atrocious time of the century. XX.
You can now buy the novel You will not kill, the new book by Julia Navarro, here: