Maze
Mexico City / 10.05.2025 01:27:30
A criticism of society from the childish look; a victim of fascism; a kidnapping that refers to a biblical episode; Mexican political fiction; essays on common objects; A reflection on the human soul … knows the books that you recommend Maze this week.
The very catastrophic visit to the zoo
One of the great exponents of thriller Police return with an unrecognizable novel if we take into account its previous production. The reason: it has been installed in the children’s universe. The plot is concentrated in a group of children special that takes the task of investigating the causes for which your school is under the waters. The focus is on criticism of the education system and the concepts of normality and difference. A great opportunity to start the pleasure of reading.
The words of the night
With prologue of Colm Tóibínthis novel by the Italian author admired by Italo Calvino, Lydia Davis and Zadie Smith. The story is located in a town in Turin at the end of World War II, with fascism still weighing on the life of the inhabitants. Elsa, the protagonist, daughter of an aristocrat family, is a 27 -year -old woman who lives with her parents and seeks to break the suffocating province life that has remained for generations.
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The sound on the altar
With the imprint of Abraham’s biblical story, which must sacrifice Isaac in divine order, although in a contemporary key, this novel is the choral history of a kidnapping, of the doubts that assault the father in the trance of sacrificing his son and the overwhelming power of money in front of moral imperatives. Martín del Campo does not hesitate to erect a structure whose complexity is based on the meeting, and shock, multiple and sometimes irreconcilable points of view.
Paso through paradise
This first volume of a trilogy that explores, through fiction, half a century of Mexican politics takes place in Chiapas, but, although what Zebadúa account is limited to a region, it becomes a microcosm of the national circumstance. In the transition of powers, the agreements between the former governor and his successor are broken. During a trip, he finds out that he has been accused of corruption and that the authorities want to stop him. From that, other episodes are hilviated.
Ordinary fetish
The domestic space and the objects that occupy it tireless is the fire that feeds these trials, minutiae on the value, sometimes inadvertent, of the insignificant. We talk about toilet paper, highly valued in times of crisis; of that second skin that is the blanket; of the soap, the water bottles, the pots and even their majesty the dust, always omnipresent. Luigi Amara It proceeds with expertise until recognizing the extraordinary in the most soy and ordinary realities.
Three you
Three are the territories explored by this essay book focused on defining the human soul: the metaphysical landscape that supports the imagination to connect to the source of all energy; the voice that comes from experience and invites contemplation; The spiritual exercises that feed the spirit. In this way, the creator of psychomagia continues his works dedicated to finding a deep sense to life.
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