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A exquisite classic of the difficult relationship between a mother and her daughter, of social ambition, hypocrisy and the arduous path to adulthood. A little gem of universal literature.
The novel tells the story of the Kampfs, a family of nouveau riche settled in a luxurious Parisian apartment, who have everything that money can buy, but lack what they most desire: the recognition of French high society. Eager to win her admiration, the couple prepares a grand ball to which Mrs. Kampf forbids her daughter, Antoniette, to attend, to which the young teenager decides to take revenge.
A fun and enjoyable work, with a direct style that contains many autobiographical elements of its author.
Qualification: The dance
Author: Irène Némirovsky
Editorial: Soul. Illustrated Classics Collection
Translation: Ruben Martin
Illustrations: Bea Lozano
A novel that has become a international phenomenon.
Dokgo He lives on the street and sleeps in Seoul station. Some time ago he had a job, a house, a family, but one day she lost everything. Even memory. When he finds a purse, he decides to give it to its owner, Mrs. Yeom, a middle-aged former teacher who runs a small business. store open twenty-four hours.
To thank him, the woman invites him to eat whenever he wants at her place and not only that: faced with the need to fill a vacancy on the night shift, she offers him the job. Thanks to his new position, Dokgo, a little clumsy at times, silent at others, begins to help many people in the neighborhood. Contact with others will make you recover memory and a new reason to live.
Qualification: Mrs. Yeom’s Amazing Shop
Author: Kim Ho Yeon
Editorial: Duomo
Translation: Ainhoa Urquia
He expected return by the Japanese author, in Catalan and Spanish.
Little does the young protagonist of this novel imagine that the girl he has fallen in love with is about to disappear of their life. When she meets him, sitting under the wisteria in a park or walking along the banks of a river, the young woman begins to talk to him about a strange walled city, located, apparently, in another world; Little by little, she ends up confessing her disturbing feeling that her true self is in that mysterious city.
Suddenly, the protagonist receives a letter from her that may mean farewell, and that plunges him into a deep sadness. Years will have to pass before he can glimpse any possibility of finding her again. And yet, that cityjust as she described it, exists.
Qualification: The city and its uncertain walls/La ciutat i les seves muralles incertes
Author: Haruki Murakami
Editorial in Spanish: Tusquets
Editorial in Catalan: Empúries
Spanish translation: Juan Francisco González
Catalan translation: Albert Nolla
Twelve horror stories twelve stories about horror: about the evil that lurks and the monsters that suddenly appear in the most everyday reality, in large cities or small remote towns.
In one of the stories, a woman keeps the ghosts that roam loose in a neighborhood at bay peripheral of Buenos Aires; among them, those of his mother who died of a painful illness, those of some teenagers murdered in the street, that of a thief caught in the middle of a robbery and that of a boy who was fleeing from an express kidnapping.
In another story, a couple rents a house for a vacation in a town that has been losing inhabitants since the train stopped passing; They visit the exhibition of the disturbing canvases of a local artist in the abandoned station, but the truth is It will be terrifying to meet the author of those paintings.
Qualification: A sunny place for gloomy people
Author: Mariana Enriquez
Editorial: Anagram
The novel unpublished by Gabriel García Márquez.
Every August, Ana Magdalena Bach takes the ferry to the island where her mother is buried to visit the tomb in which she lies. These trips end up being an irresistible invitation to become a different person for one night a year.
See you in August It is a song to life, to the resistance of enjoyment despite the passage of time and to feminine desire.
Qualification: See you in August
Author: Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Editorial: Penguin Random House
