Indispensable books to read in May

The indispensable books to read in May They promise intense emotions, deep reflections and intense confrontations. Whether under the spring sun or in a rainy afternoon, they will take you to other realities.

Unmissable

Amélie Nothomb returns to the load with THE BOOK OF THE SISTERS, A fraternal love story and parental heartbreak in which the Belgian author weaves with a mastery The invisible threads that unite already drown Tristane and Laetitia, two sisters facing the indifference of self -absorbed parents in their own universe. With his sharp and poetic prose, Nothom turns the everyday into an intimate drama, where each word weighs and every silence shouts in this reflection on unrequited love (even as a family).

Arriaga in its maximum power: The man It is a polyphonic narrative with indelible characters and a prose that burns and rummage in the bloody foundations of power. Henry Lloyd, a titan as charismatic as monstrous, embodies the ruthless ambition that forged the American dream to machetes: an empire raised on slavery, betrayal and the earth stolen from Mexico. There are six voices that cross time and moral, exposing the broken seams of a continent. There are no heroes, only survivors and executioners in a world where progress smells like gunpowder and freedom is written with scars.

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In the poems I kept the dusk in the drawerHan Kang, Nobel Prize for Literature 2024, is immersed in solitude, disease and that limbo where living and dead living together. Kang, author of iconic works as The vegetarianshow that your prose has no borders: Here poetry is open wound and art that bleeds language. Each poem is a map of emotions where the everyday becomes transcendent, where silence shouts and fragility stands in strength.

The greyhounds, the greyhoundsby Sara Gallardo, is one of those novels that are installed in the reader as a silent beat. In these pages, the author weaves the story of Julián, a man who inherits not only goods, but also the weight of a asphyxiation tradition. What begins as an apparent bad business – to achieve a house through a field – becomes an intimate trip to the folds of desire, frustration and the oppressive stillness of rural life. The Argentine landscape joins the inner landscape of the characters in an unforgettable tour.

Indispensable books to read in May

Mariano de Vedia gives us the definitive biography of Francisco, the Pope who broke molds. With the rigor of a journalist who knows the ins and outs of the Vatican and the agile narrative of a chronicler, this book unravels the life of Jorge Mario Bergoglio: from his childhood in flowers to his choice as a pontiff in the middle of a church in crisis. It’s about An essential book to understand not only the first Latin American Pope, but also the tensions between tradition and reform that today shake Catholicism. An intimate and revealing portrait, as human as inspiring.

Javier Sicilia and Jacobo Dayán resume the legacy of Semprún and Wiesel to challenge our present in Crisis o apocalipsis. With the rawness of those who have walked with the victims in Mexico, the authors weave a conversation that is shout and hope. They speak of memory not as a museum, but as an antidote; of truth not as comfort, but as a weapon; of justice not as abstraction, but as a vital demand. This book does not offer easy answers, but something more valuable: the possibility of looking at the abyss without surrendering to it. A necessary testimony for those who believe that, even in collapse, the human word can be an act of resistance.