In Magallanes & Co., Isabel Soler draws from the testimonies of navigators, adventurers and merchants, in addition to numerous other sources about the Moluccan company, to give shape to an exhaustive and vivid account of Magallanes’ voyage that turned the world, including the eight years, essential for his subsequent undertaking, that the Portuguese explorer spent in the service of the Indian navy in eastern lands.
After more than 35 years, Pierre Lemaitre takes his first detective novel, written in 1985, but never published, out of the drawer. An unpublished work that marks the beginning and the end of the writer in the field of the black novel, and in which the ironic tone, the brilliant structure are already present. Mathilde is a lovely elderly woman who is always accompanied by a Dalmatian dog. No one would say she’s a relentless hired killer.
The literary debut has come to Julia Soria at the age of 73. A perfect age. She has lived in Barcelona, Paris and Rio de Janeiro although she was born in a village in Soria. Her text is discovery. A return to the rural world, from the city, and consolidation of the image of the grandmother, with certain detective touches. A tribute to her memory about a middle-aged woman who returns to her town accompanied by her brother, to sell her grandparents’ house.
Benson and Mike are a gay couple living in Houston. Benson is African-American and works as a nursery school teacher. Mike is of Japanese origin and a chef at a Mexican restaurant. Their common existence begins to show some cracks and to be threatened by monotony, until they are separated by thousands of kilometers, as Benson travels to Japan to see his sick father. The couple will face the past of their respective families and some secrets related to them.
It narrates, in the manner of a picaresque novel, the discourse of a teenager in Bilbao at the end of the 1990s, showing the crudest aspects of a brutal masculinity that is nothing more than a reflection of a macho society driven by violence, sex and gender. money. Novel that flees from conventionalisms, painfully funny and hard, in which Guillermo Aguirre portrays with scrapped lyrics and machine gun epic a sentimental education in the law of the street.
A fiction about those who live conflicts on the front line. A set of fictional stories inspired by real events, starring those who apply to be in that uncomfortable place where no one is ahead, only fatal danger, which begins in July 2002 in Alicante when Jorge, alias Ruina, is in a concert by Estopa and receives the notice that the Moroccans have taken the Perejil islet and he, a young sergeant, is mobilized.
A story that collapses the idyllic and sweetened vision of motherhood. The protagonist of it experiences pregnancy and parenting as a flight forward, an apprenticeship for which no one has prepared her. The truth is that not everything is bad in the relationship between this young mother and her newborn, but on this trip, an adventure through Argentine territory, the reader will see that child grow up, claim the mother’s breast until she is exhausted. .
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