A NOVEL TO READ HIDDENLY IN THE OFFICE
The podcast host Arsenic Caviar and winner of the Ondas, debuts with a sharp novel about a woman fed up with work.
Discontent It is the story of Marisa, a woman in her thirties who lives anesthetized using orphids and YouTube videos to endure the routines and sorrows of his day-to-day life in an advertising agency. Just go to the office in person to save money on air conditioning during Madrid’s sweltering August. Marisa hates work. However, she can’t leave him: she likes pretty things too much.
The week before a team building organized by your company, Marisa’s anxiety skyrockets; Sharing an entire weekend with her colleagues is unbearable and the buried memory of a tragedy that occurred some time ago returns to torment her. As the days go by, His social mask, so cared for and polished over the years, will crack until everything flies into the air..
This novel is a sharp dart that pierces the reader with every word.A masterful x-ray on the crises experienced by any person who works; about loneliness, the need for bonds and connections to find the spark and not throw yourself in front of a bus on a Monday morning.
First installment of the “Dreaming Spiers” trilogy. A mystery and adventure novel about a group of paranormal investigators who face the case of a spirit trapped within the walls of an Irish castle.
“Álvarez mixes romance and intrigue to tell the story of a medium.”
The vanguard
Once upon a time in Ireland…
The first days of January 1903 are running and the Professor Alexander Quills, a wise and sad man, returns home to Oxford after attending lectures in London; meanwhile, Oliver Saunders, young and shy, works in his small room at Balliol College, surrounded by dictionaries and gothic novels; and Lionel Lennoxlover of the good life and light skirts, is in Egypt, about to desecrate the tomb of a princess to take a jewel of inestimable value.
The three friends have little in common, except the affection that unites them and their interest in the new sciences that explore the world beyond. Very soon their desire to know will take them to Ireland, a land full of legends, where the stones have a story to tell and the sound of the rain is confused with the crying of women who took care of their loved ones even beyond the distance. death.
heir to The Lady in white by Wilkie Collins, Your name after the rain It returns us to the best literature of the 19th century.
San Servando, Cádiz 1922 The aroma of orange blossom perfumes the Alameda de los Naranjos on the day when the arrival of new neighbors disrupts the peaceful routine of Cala Torrealta. Resigned to leading a life that is nothing like the one she had dreamed of, Cala dedicates herself to taking care of both her father, a famous composer, and her sisters: the rebellious Azahara and the pragmatic Violeta. Mauro Buenaventura is a young and wealthy widower from Madrid who only cares about the prosperity of his cookie company and the health of his sister. Nothing had made him suspect that, upon his arrival, all the marriageable girls in that town in Cadiz would begin to preen like never before to meet each other, and much less that, right in front of his residence, a force of nature like Cala Torrealta would live, someone capable of tearing down the wall he had built around him, shaking his most deeply held beliefs. A novel as delicious as freshly baked cookies and as vibrant as the waves of the Atlantic.
He brutal Carla Nyman’s novelistic debut, “firm promise” of writing in the Spanish language (The Cultural):a mother and daughter have committed a crime and are willing to confess it. A delirious Almodovarian thriller on the coast of Almería
«Tremendously disturbing and funny. A novel where desire and death come out to sunbathe.
Monica Ojeda“With all certainty, one of the most original debuts on the Spanish literary scene.”
Sara Barquinero
A girl has killed her boyfriend with the help of her mother. It is summer and the heat is on the coast of Almería while they carry her corpse in a wheelchair. Sunbathing and drinking cocktails in beach bars accompanied by the dead man, the daughter insistently calls the judge who could perhaps investigate her case to make things easy for her: they are guilty and she is willing to tell him in detail how they killed him and why. . But the judge doesn’t answer and goes to voicemail.
The award-winning playwright and poet Carla Nyman debuts in the novel with this Almodovarian delirium, a machete attack covered in hysterical laughter that launches abrupt questions about desire, femininity, jealousy, sex and love.
A letter. Lots of photos. A TikTok video. A reunion. A road map. Welcome to the honeymoon trip that my grandmother should have taken and that, fifty years later, I am taking. With the man she was in love with. And with her grandson # my high school nemesis.
A body inhabits a place: a body with its circumstances and its history, in a place also with its circumstances, also with its history. That place is not a set, because it has the life of ghosts and shooting stars, drought, grass, a herd of goats, the traces left on the earth by everything that also was. In the poems of Fuego la sed, bodies and places take the floor, yes, to tell us the story of a danger: the one that stalks a world – ours – that is becoming extinct. María Sánchez has written a militantly political, militantly lyrical book about our relationship with our environment: about the way in which human decisions impact the course of a stream or the flight of a bird, about the lack of memory by which we we impose on the territory, and we erase the possibility of other experiences. The publication of Cuaderno de campo, María Sánchez’s first book of poems, marked a revolution in our literature: a vision of the rural environment far from stereotypes, which opened new paths and raised a debate. In times of climate emergency, Fuego la sed broadens the conversation, reflects and includes us, appeals to listening for self-knowledge. Beautiful and subtle, at the same time resounding and powerful, in Fuego la sed those of us who have insisted on never hearing speak.
THE MONUMENTAL NOVEL OF A GENERATION
The young Sara Barquinero, praised by Carlos Zanón, Nuria Labari, Andrés Barba, Elvira Navarro, Elizabeth Duval and Luna Miguel, consecrates herself with an astonishing work.
«The Spanish novel with the greatest ambition in recent years. Barquinero’s anhedonia and escapism meet here with the best of The infinite joke of David Foster Wallace and the novels of Don DeLillo, intersecting with the echoes of 2666 by Roberto Bolaño, Ottessa Moshfegh, Mariana Enriquez or Michel Houellebecq.
Elizabeth Duval
Scorpions It is a novel of novels: a titanic and mysterious narrative work. The protagonists, Sara and Thomas, find themselves involved in the web of a conspiracy theory directed by political and economic powers, who seek to control individuals through hypnosis and subliminal messages in books, video games and music to induce them. to suicide. Both carry emotional imbalances and, while an unclassifiable and powerful relationship is woven between them, they decide to investigate this sect whose name is that of one of the few animal species that prefers to kill itself rather than continue enduring pain.
From Italy in the 1920s, through the deep south of the United States in the 1980s, to present-day Madrid, Bilbao, a lost town in rural Spain, and New York, this is a story about existential angst. , loneliness and the need to believe in something, whatever it may be, to find the meaning of life.
Sara Barquinero provides a reading experience that obsesses, disturbs and drags the reader to the end.
