Between the editorial news for this Mayfigure To bewitch a hunter, the story of Luciano Lamberti winner of the Clarín Novel Prize 2023which was published by the aforementioned newspaper and the Alfaguara label.
“A dazzling novel that, returning to the horror of the last military dictatorship, takes us down unexplored and unexpected paths,” reads about Lamberti’s award-winning writing.
The synopsis
Julia listens in a bar to an old woman who accosted her on the street and claims to be her grandmother. She always had doubts about her own origin and Griselda now reveals her true story to her.
Very soon you will understand that behind that peaceful old woman there is more than what she says. With it, readers will begin a non-stop immersion in a territory of multiform horror that, in the repetition of torture and death, replicates the bloody gestures of the military dictatorship. A plot crafted with excellence that reviews the 60s and 70s with the resources of terror and gore and that dazzles with its mastery and acuity.
In The boy (Tusquets), Fernando Aramburu tells an exciting, addictive and moving story that is part of the Basque People frieze
The synopsis
Nicasio, now retired, usually goes up to the Ortuella cemetery on Thursdays to visit his grandson’s grave. He is one of the many children who died after a gas explosion at a school in that town, an accident that shook the Basque Country and all of Spain in 1980.
Through the adventures of the grandfather, a figure that grows until it becomes unforgettable, through the testimony of the mother many years later, through the objective chronicle of what happened to the family, we will discover how that lacerating and devastating tragedy altered them, how they to bring out unexpected aspects, how it disrupted their lives.
In If this is not my home, I don’t have a home (Seix Barral), Lorri Moore proposes “a captivating reflection on the transience of happiness.”
The synopsis
Finn is a middle-aged teacher who is forced to take a break from work when he is alerted that his ex-partner, Lily, is in serious trouble. Together they begin a final journey that will make Finn reconsider unavoidable questions about the comic and tragic of life, death and the past together.
With her unmatched black humor and a unique talent for challenging genres, Lorrie Moore creates a prodigious novel that works like a magic box that contains both a memorable love story and an ironic ghost story and a mystery rooted in the 19th century.
Historical novel
In The sorceress of Asturia (Plaza & Janés), Gloria V. Casañas portrays the story of an indomitable heart that resists the power of Rome.
The synopsis
The historical novel is set in Rome, in the 1st century BC. C. The empire extends its dominion throughout the world and no people seem to resist it, with the exception of Hispania, an untamed land that rebels against imperial power.
Octavio, the Princeps, sends his best man to conquer the region. And there goes Mauro Aurelius Maximus, centurion of Rome, famous for his courage and his mettle in battle, ready to face any enemy.
Or at least he thinks so, because when he first sees Eirene, a young woman of dazzling beauty who hides in the Asturian forest and ambushes the Romans, nothing will be the same for the brave soldier.
Bewitched by that redhead with green eyes who seems to read his thoughts, Mauro will discover that as he advances in the conquest of the earth, he surrenders to a passion that he had never experienced. By land and by sea, between forests and palaces, power intrigues and hand-to-hand fights, a love emerges more untamed than Hispania itself.
In Neville House 2. Don’t want anything vile (Planet), Florence Bonelli continues a story of betrayal, deception and a love that resists. This is the second plot that has Manon as the protagonist
The synopsis
Determined and sagacious, Manon Neville establishes herself as the head of the powerful House Neville. As her influence spreads, her enemies hatch new conspiracies to destroy her.
Alexander Blackraven, her fiancé, is a fundamental support for the formidable young woman. But the passionate love that unites them is not free of ambiguities or secrets that have their roots in the past.
Against everything and everyone, the young couple will begin a long clipper trip to China, during which they will both get to know each other deeply and live adventures that will put them to the test. But the enemy’s hand is long, and no matter how far they move from London, their lives remain in danger. Amid the complex web of lies and betrayals that surrounds them, Manon and Alexander will try to consolidate a love that at times seems impossible.
