‘From within’ / ‘Des de dins’
Martin Amis. Anagram. € 24
Amis’s second memorial adventure is as intense as ‘Experience’, her first foray into the matter when she was 50 years old. Since then he has created a new family and has moved to New York, but the book goes much further in a mixture that combines reflection with drops of fiction.
‘Apeirógono’ / ‘Apeirògon’
‘Apeirógono’ / ‘Apeirògon’
McCallum column. Seix Barral / L’Altra. € 22.90
An apeirogon is a geometric figure with an unlimited number of faces. From this perspective, which opens up to 1,001 narrative fragments, the friendship between the Israeli Rami Elhanan and the Palestinian Bassam Aramin, who lost their respective daughters in the conflict, is rebuilt.
‘Crossroads’ / ‘Cruïlles’
‘Crossroads’ / ‘Cruïlles’
Jonathan Franzen. Salamander / Empúries. 22 €
From the 70s to the present day, the “great American novelist & rdquor; follows the story of a family and at the same time dissects the religious and moral drift of the United States, although with a declared intention more fictional and less historical than his previous novels.
‘The Shuggie Bain Story’ / ‘The Shuggie Bain Story’
‘The Shuggie Bain Story’ / ‘The Shuggie Bain Story’
Douglas Stuart. Sixth Floor / Ed. 1984. € 23
This magnificent autobiographical novel by this novel author, born in Glasgow into an unstructured family, in utter poverty and in an environment in which his gay condition was not well received, earned Stuart the Man Booker Prize and recognition international.
‘Paradise’
‘Paradise’
Abdulrazak Gurnah. Salamander. € 20
Salamandra recovers one of the best novels by the unexpected Arab Nobel laureate from Tanzania, who has lived in England for half a century. It was published in its day and hardly had an echo in bookstores. So you have to read Gurnah to get a good opinion.
‘In autumn’
‘In autumn’
Karl Ove Knausgard. Anagram. € 18.90
After his mammoth saga ‘My fight’, the tireless Norwegian embarks on a tetralogy that appears in Anagram in one go. This first volume consists of three letters addressed to the unborn daughter, the result of a relationship after the divorce from his second wife, the writer Linda Boström.
‘The optimists’ / ‘Els grans optimistes’
‘The optimists’ / ‘Els grans optimistes’
Rebecca Makkai. Sixth Floor / Periscopi. € 23.90
The American author Rebecca Makkai portrays the era of AIDS in this work that follows the adventures of a group of gay friends over three decades, with special attention to those years when the detection of the HIV virus was a blow to the 70’s sexual liberation.
‘Where are you beautiful world’ / ‘On ets món bonic
‘Where are you beautiful world’ / ‘On ets món bonic
Sally Rooney. Random House / Periscopi Literature. € 19.90
Rooney is not just a writer, she is an editorial phenomenon that has managed to connect with the anxieties and doubts of the ‘millennials’ regarding love relationships and their complexities. The Irishwoman knows how to capture the daily life of her characters naturally and without sugarcoats.
‘The country of the others’ / ‘The country of the altres’
‘The country of the others’ / ‘The country of the altres’
Leila Slimani. Cabaret Voltaire / Angle € 22.80
Goncourt winner, Leila Slimani uses the story of her maternal grandmother, an Alsatian who decided to marry a Moroccan, a fighter for the French troops during World War II and go live in a country that would never be hers, but it did not belong to its inhabitants either.
‘The lists of the past’
‘The lists of the past’
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Julie Hayden. Infinite doll. € 18.95
A ‘podcast’ by Lorrie Moore in which she read a story by Julie Hayden who died in 1981 brought back to the edition this author who was part of the ‘staff’ of ‘The New Yorker’ and died prematurely of cancer and drunk, leaving just one book: this careful choral portrait of loneliness in the Big Apple.
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