Hernan Diaz. Anagram / Periscope
With this unsurpassed feat, the Argentine living in the United States Hernán Díaz, who writes directly in English, won the latest Pulitzer Prize for literature. A complex puzzle that goes through different styles and in the end composes a figure that tells us about the corrupting power of money and the neglect of women as protagonists of history.
José Eduardo Agualusa. edhasa
The Portuguese literature of the former colonies has its best version in the white Angolan writer, José Eduardo Agualusa, with the permission of the Mozambican Mia Couto. In this novel, an African festival brings together a group of native writers, but soon reality and phantasmagoria prove difficult to separate from each other.
Virginie Despentes. Random House /Sembra
An actress in low hours maintains a correspondence with a novelist accused of sexual harassment on the networks. They are both addicts and must recognize it and reflect on it. How does asking for forgiveness benefit victims? Despentes’s least combative novel but also, perhaps the most interesting for its shadowy areas.
Jon Fosse. Of Attempts
One box serves the seven books gathered in three volumes of what is the indisputable masterpiece of the Norwegian author and recent Nobel Prize winner. Starting with an alter-ego, a painter named Alse with alcoholism problems and in search of existential meaning, he considers what his life would have been like if he had taken other paths.
Ian McEwan. Anagram
The most extensive and autobiographical of McEwan’s novels, it includes his early childhood in Libya, his hardships at the strict boarding school he attended, his troubled separation, and the story of the brother, totally unknown to him, whom his mother gave up for adoption. The abuse he may have suffered from his music teacher is not documented.
Shirley Jackson. Lower case
A year before the excellent ‘The Haunting of Hill House’, Jackson created this novel, a sinister fairy tale, in which a house also stands as the protagonist. Here is the place where a family will take refuge who has been told that the end of the world will come and that the inhabitants of the mansion will be saved.
Shehan Karutilaka. Uranus
Last year’s Booker Prize recognized the voice of this excellent Sri Lankan writer with this novel about the ghost of a gay war photographer who has one week to find out who murdered him. Along the way, what is put together is a cruel, devastating and entertaining satire on the terrible situation that the country is experiencing.
Tess Gunty. Sixth Floor / 1984 Editions
The crisis of the populations of the Midwestern United States after industrial relocation created ghost cities like the one in this novel. Its protagonists are the inhabitants of La conejera, a degraded building, where their lives intersect. Tess Gunty is the youngest winner of the National Book Award.
Colin Barrett. Sayalin
Irish but Canadian-born Colin Barrett is a little-known Irish author who writes stories about sad people in inner cities. One could say that these stories are touched by the breath of old fairy tales if it were not for the fact that they do not contain princes and princesses.
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László Krasznahorkai. Cliff.
Eight stories that explore one of the most beloved themes of the extraordinary Hungarian writer: that of the individual exploited by power. With an unmistakable Kafkaesque aroma, the stories function as metaphors for Hungary that, after the fall of communism, is delving into its identity.
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2024-01-02 19:32:45
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