At a time more timely, it arrives in Mexico God’s madman at the end of the worlda novel counted in Thriller born from the meeting between Javier Cercas and the Papa Francisco. There is a long literary tradition around cats, within this current we could include The cat’s silencethe new poems of Alberto Ruy Sánchez. The Mexican Elisa Díaz Castelo He pauses poetry, to present Malacría His first novel and in which he addresses the female experience during the beginning of the 21st century. We close our recommendations with another prima opera, it is about A note of fire and nothing morea squeezing novel of Elena Piedra.
Javier Cercas. God’s madman at the end of the world. Random house literature. 485 pp.
Never before the Vatican had opened its doors to a writer. The Spanish Javier Cercas presents a novel without fiction to speak, in the tone of thriller, of the greatest mystery of humanity. Through his encounter with Pope Francis, the narrator returns to his most personal line, in which he manages to link his intimate obsessions with one of the fundamental concerns of today’s society: the role in human life of the spiritual and the transcendent, the place in it of religion and the desire for immortality.
Alberto Ruy Sánchez. The silence of the cat. Was. 107 pp.
This book is a sum of love prints, intuitions and glare. Its author, a cheerful officer of the “religion / discreetly feline” to which the apparent owners of the cats belong, tells us how Thor, the “fire redhead” that shares his nine lives with the poet and his family, is the tiny domestic divinity that tends his spell of silky demand on every corner of the house and the soul of his owner, who thoroughly records his transfigurations in dragon, Flower, cloud, moon, currency that clinks when snoring.
Elisa Díaz Castelo. Malacría. Sixth floor. 266 pp.
How do the past that inhabit us affect the present, even those of whom we have no knowledge? Malacría, Elisa Díaz Castelo’s first novel, investigates these lands through the intergenerational history of three women and the thread of violence that crosses them. The story also works as a small fresco of female experience in Mexican society of the twentieth century and the dawn of the XXI.
Elena Piedra. A note of fire and nothing more. Tusquets 196 pp.
Since the word fire broke into his head, Fernanda – a young woman who could never have a healthy relationship with his mother – has not been able to think of anything else. Early by a family history of silences and grudges, a homicidal impetus is gradually charged into its head and the fire is revealed as the only way to freedom. How far are we able to arrive to tear away the pain that we cause us who most want? The narrator poses this and other questions in this remarkable novel.
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