From the farewell of Gabriel García Márquez to the new novel by Joël Dicker and through the resistance of Sonsoles Ónega
A new April passed and, with it, another Book Day. However, although with each month that ends the bookstores are filled again with new items that bury those of previous months, good stories have no expiration date. So, if you are one of those readers for whom the best-seller label is the best predictor, searching the list of April’s best-selling books you will find your readings for this newly released May.
‘A wild animal’, Joël Dicker
Two criminals are preparing to rob an important jewelry store in Geneva, far from being a common robbery. Twenty days earlier, in a luxurious development, Sophie Braun is preparing to celebrate her fortieth birthday. Her life smiles at her: she lives with her family in a mansion surrounded by forests, but her idyllic world is about to shake. Her husband is entangled in her little secrets. Her neighbor, a police officer with an impeccable reputation, has become obsessed with her and spies on her down to the most intimate details. And a mysterious marauder gives him a gift that puts his life in danger.. Several trips to the past, far from Geneva, will be necessary to find the origin of this diabolical intrigue from which no one will emerge unscathed.
‘See you in August’, 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 visits end up assuming an irresistible invitation to become a different person for one night a year. Written in the unmistakable and fascinating style of García Márquez, ‘See you in August’ is a song to life, to feminine desire and to the resistance of enjoyment despite the passage of time. An unexpected gift for Colombian Nobel readers.
‘The Child’, Fernando Aramburu
Nicasio, now retired, usually goes up to the Ortuella cemetery on Thursdays to visit his grandson’s grave. He is one of the many children who died after a gas explosion at a school in that town, an accident that shook the Basque Country and all of Spain in 1980. Through the grandfather’s adventures, through the mother’s testimony many years later, through the objective chronicle of what happened to the family, we will discover how that lacerating and devastating tragedy altered them, how it brought out unexpected aspects, how it disrupted their lives. . A heartbreaking and unforgettable story.
‘Dress rehearsal’, Milena Busquets
A short and light-looking book, which hides much more than what it reveals at first sight. A distillate of evocations, emotions and experiences converted into literature. Snapshots of a life. An impressionistic canvas of vital moments: joys, pain, memories, longings… The mother who died years ago, but whose presence is still felt; the childhood nanny in Cadaqués; the children who grow up; the good and bad lovers; the lonely morning baths during the summer; the little things that make life worth living; the chance meeting with a childhood friend already forgotten and the discovery of an old friend of the mother whose trace had been lost…
‘The city and its uncertain walls’, Haruki Murakami
Little does the young protagonist of this novel imagine that the girl he has fallen in love with is about to disappear from his life. In their meetings, sitting 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 hers truly I It is found in that mysterious city. Years will have to pass before he can glimpse any possibility of finding her again.
‘Blackwater’ Saga, Michael McDowell
‘Blackwater’ is a novel in six installments that covers fifty years in the life of a family of rich landowners who are anything but ordinary, with their stories, their alliances and their Machiavellian plans to retain power. What is hidden behind the Caskeys? Matriarchal power struggles, surprises of fate, sudden deaths and the most inexplicable events are about to be discovered. A matriarchal saga. Powerful women fighting for dominance for generations. An addictive and realistic portrait with supernatural touches. An ambitious project between pulp and HBO.
‘Ship of Theseus’, JJ Abrams
A young woman accidentally finds a book left out of place by a stranger: an intrigued reader, enthralled by the story and its mysterious author, as revealed by notes written in the margin. She responds by writing more notes and puts the book back down for the boy to pick up.. Thus begins an exchange in which the two will enter the unknown. The book is the latest novel by a prolific but enigmatic author named VM Straka, in which a man with no past is kidnapped and taken to a strange ship with a sinister crew, beginning a perplexing and dangerous journey. ‘The Ship of Theseus’ is the chronicle of two readers who meet in the margins of a book and find themselves involved in a deadly struggle between forces they do not understand.
‘The crack of silence’, Javier Castillo
1981. Daniel Miller’s bicycle appears abandoned near his house. There is no trace of the little one. Thirty years later, investigative journalist Miren Triggs follows a trail that leads her to the terrible discovery of a corpse with its lips sealed. Triggs and Jim Schmoer, her former journalism professor, They will try to discover what links both cases as they help Ben Miller, Daniel’s father and former FBI inspector, piece together one last time his son’s disappearance. They will thus delve into the depths of an enigma full of nooks and crannies in which voices from the past resonate. What happened to Daniel? Who is hiding behind the horrible murder? Can silence be the refuge of truth?
‘The maid’s daughters’, Sonsoles Ónega
One night in February 1900, two girls came into the world. whose destinies were already written. They are Clara and Catalina and their lives will be forever shaken by an unexpected revenge. Also those of all the Valdés. Doña Inés, matriarch of the saga and faithful wife of Don Gustavo, must survive heartbreak, the pain of abandonment and power struggles until her true daughter becomes the heir to an entire empire. All of this at a time when women were not allowed to be masters of their lives.
‘Baumgartner’, Paul Auster
Baumgartner is an eminent writer and university professor, as eccentric as he is incredibly tender, who lost his wife nine years ago. His life was defined by the deep and abiding love he felt for Anna. and now, at 71 years old, he continues to fight to live in his absence. Their common story begins in 1968, when they meet as penniless students in New York and despite being almost opposites in many aspects, they begin a passionate relationship that will last for forty years.
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