The stylish books chosen by ‘Bellver in April’, May 9, 2024Enric Fontcuberta
The impact of meteorites
MA Vidal
Disset
19 euros
A thematic diversity, answers, that range from mathematical or philosophical problems to mythological or erotic episodes, and are situated in periods as different as Sumerian, Egyptian, medieval or contemporary, the economy of linguistic resources , the tria of the lexic, the literary jocs and the structural entramat are the elements that provide unity and coherence to the recull.
The impact of meteorits, MA Vidal
Jaguar
Gabriel Janer Manila
Nova Editorial Moll
18 euros
Gabriel Janer Manila’s foray into the novel·la breu; A fast-paced and immersive adventure set in the first half of the 19th century, when a group of young people begin a journey through the depths of the Amazon jungle, the land of the Jaguar, following the adventures of a woman who had defied the conventions of the time. .The investigation of the indigenous population of the Korubo tribe.
Jaguar, Gabriel Janer Manila
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Laia de Ahumada and Cinta Fosch
Akiara Books
€18.50
Soly, originally from Senegal; Helena, born in Bolivia; Said, who fled Syria; Ruth, from El Salvador, and Meriem and Ossama, who left Morocco behind. They all tell of their odyssey to reach Spain and what their new life in Catalonia is like in this illustrated book that aims to raise awareness about immigration. They are hard stories, of pain and loneliness, but also hopeful, of improvement and integration.
lonely planet
Ana Flecha Marco
Mr Griffin
€16.64
Inspired by an informal proposal from her editor, who intended to publish a travel book, the author of this third-person synopsis decides to turn her cloak into a coat and embark on writing a text about ideas peripheral to the act and concept of traveling. , from the notion of being from a certain place and not another to the awareness that there is a world outside of what one knows.
Zeal
Sabina Urraca
Alfaguara
€19.90
Zeal is the long-awaited return to Sabina Urraca’s novel after The Prodigy Girls. It all begins the night the Human finds the Bitch. She now lives with an animal that is absorbing the energy that she lacks. In order for the psychiatrist to prescribe more anxiolytics, she will have to go to group therapy where she will meet Mecha, a woman who becomes, with the Bitch, an animal that is difficult to save.
No trace of Humanity
AG Novak
Maniac Editions
€19.76
The mutilated corpses of several young people are found in the Madrid neighborhood of Tetuán. The investigation is complicated by verifying that the culprits in this and other similar cases share personality traits. In collaboration with a neuroscientist, Inspector Magda Romero will discover that something strange is transforming ordinary people into multiple or serial killers.
The barren land
Carla Berrocal
Reservoir Books
€21.90
A curse plagues the landscape in this graphic novel by Carla Berrocal. The Them, wild and predatory creatures, get too close to inhabited areas and livestock. In the middle, two families confronted by their past: the house of Salvatierra and that of Isla Perdida. And at the center of that conflict, the forbidden romance between Leonor and Isabel, the heirs of each house, which will play a fundamental role.
