My mother and I have been sharing readings, songs and movies since I have reason. Obviously she began, immersing me in stories that literally made me want to dance or live very strong, which in the end is the same. Titles like ‘Flashdance’, ‘Dirty Dancing’ were cast, put Barbra Streisand at full volume, rested some book by Isabel Allende on her table. Everything was full of stories of women who made me trust from the sofa of my house, with a premature innocence, at least In fiction one could be what would like to be. I absorb everything. I stayed with the couplet. This Díscola and Peleona soul is partly thanks to it.
The week before Mother’s Day I always spend it in search of a book that might like. Sometimes I think of changing this kind of self -imposed tradition, then the words of Xacobeo Pato come to mind: “What best talks about a book is the urgent will to share it, if you want the people we want to read it.” Is that love for ours is summarized in that: want dive into the cultural memory of the other and expand it. With a filma song, a story. Today I opt for the latter and I leave you five proposals written by brilliant women, that I am sure that my mother would like and also yours.
‘Mothers and daughters’ – Laura Freixas
An anthology of interconnected stories in which the author enters the Motherhood folds and relationships between mothers and daughters making space for complex questions and reflections. A theme present since the beginning of time, but deeply absent in the history of literature, which does not have a little prominence until the twentieth century. You can find it in physical format in the book of the book for 12.25 euros and in digital format for 8.54 euros in Kindle version on Amazon.
‘Divas Rebeldes’ – Cristina Morató
I engage all the books of this author. Be able to know the History of influential women always from a more human perspective It is a luxury. She teaches the woman behind the diva, the lights and the shadows of the idealized faces behind the screen. I remember a phrase that I read in one of them, excited from the same Rita Hayworth: “Men go to bed with Gilda, but they get up with me.” You have to stay to see the human being after the archetype.
Moató a little that, exposes you the biographies without makeup, without artifice, teaches you the truth. In ‘Divas Rebeldes’ he does it with María Callas, Coco Chanel, Audrey Hepburn, Eva Perón, Jackie Kennedy, Barbara Hutton and Wallis Simpson. You can find it in physical format in the book of the book for 15.15 euros and in digital format for 9.02 euros in Kindle version on Amazon.
‘Cleaning women’s manual’ – Lucia Berlin
Almodóvar was about to direct a film based on this reading. He confessed: “It is my book with more marked pages. His stories are so stark (even sordids) and so fun that I tempt me to do something with them.” I didn’t need more, blind faith in him.
At the blow of intelligent humor rinsed everything with a melancholy aura exposes several stories that narrate the disagreements of the lives of a group of women. There is space for motherhood, precarious works, fleeting loves and public hospitals. A prose full of brutal honesty. You can find it in physical format in the book of the book for 20.80 euros and in digital format for 8.54 euros in Kindle version on Amazon.
‘Where are you, world Bello’ – Sally Rooney
This author is not only one of the essentials of the Z generation, her works also have a hole in your mother’s bedside table. This time we enter Alice’s life, a successful writer in full creative blockade and that of her friend Eileen, a Dublin editor. Both will try to find meaning to a world that seems to crumble everywhere, while and exposes The beauty of sentimental ties despite chaos. You can find it in physical format in the book of the book for 19.85 euros and in digital format for 9.49 euros in Kindle version on Amazon.
‘Scar’ – Sara Mesa
A couple of years ago, I gave my mother ‘a love’, by the same author. Sara Mesa’s writing is always a success. That way in which the protagonists foolish with the abyss, which want to grab them from the hand and to release them, it is nothing more than The complexity of the human being. Everything gets embracing and you can’t stop reading. In ‘Cicatriz’ there is no exception and touches Sonia, a woman who meets Knut in an internet literary forum and, despite the kilometers that separate them, establishes with him A very particular relationship subject to obsession and strangeness.
It is a book of those that you end and accompany you even days and weeks later. You get phrases, unconnected ideas, questions to ask the protagonist. I guess it’s the grace of a good book. What leaves you thinking after the word ‘end’. You can find it in physical format in the book of the book for 17.95 euros and in digital format for 9.49 euros in Kindle version on Amazon.
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