Of course Everything is going to get better It is not just a novel, because it was the refuge of Almudena Grandes the last year of her life and because it was a project that she did not finish, born of the stupor and rage of the confinement of March 2020. Seclusion in domestic bubbles while the coronavirus seemed to lurk in the street, it created a breeding ground conducive to the disfigurement of the truth. Grandes imagined a terrifying Spain, an immense Virtual Shopping Center made up of a sheepish population of consumers. This novel, the book of the week for Babeliais an example of the intrahistorical epic that the writer practiced brilliantly and that she knew how to weave with the tiny heroism of people called to disappear into the cesspool of history, but without whom history would have been very different.
The flame of Phocaea adds the thirteenth installment of the saga of the civil guard Rubén Bevilacqua. Almost 25 years and 12 novels after the publication of The far country of the shelvesLorenzo Silva manages to maintain the vigor of the series, something undoubtedly remarkable. The word for red by Jon McGregor, he enters a base in the Antarctic, where Robert Wright, a veteran technical assistant, welcomes two new collaborators, experts in geographic information, to explore and map the area. The iconoclastic Virginie Despentes travels from Paris to Barcelona in her apocalypse baby. And, finally, Mar Abad outlines the biography of Álvaro de Figueroa y Torres, Count of Romanones and Knight of the Imperial Order of the Iron Crown. A man who, as he says in the book Romanons. A zarzuela of power in 37 acts“he changed his jacket with such agility that it is impossible to hang a single label on him”.
The author’s posthumous work, with a chapter written by Luis García Montero, speaks of resistance and solidarity in a dystopian but probable world. Review by Domingo Ródenas de Moya.
The thirteenth installment of the cycle starring the civil guard Bevilacqua shows the virtues of a commitment sustained over a quarter of a century. Criticism of Juan Carlos Galindo.
Jon McGregor faces a narrative challenge of the first magnitude to narrate the recovery from a stroke in the harsh conditions of a base in Antarctica. Review of José María Guelbenzu.
The writer publishes ‘Apocalypse baby’, a ‘thriller’ set in Barcelona and hitherto unpublished in Spanish, and shakes up the literary autumn in France with her new book, ‘Dear cocoon’, where she gets into the skin of a man accused of MeToo. Interview with Alex Vicente.
The biography ‘Romanones. A zarzuela of power in 37 acts’ recalls the figure of a politician who went from heading the Liberal Party and prohibiting the Catechism at school to sitting in the Francoist Parliament. Vincent’s review. G. Olaya.
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