A new book by Haruki Murakami is always good news for his millions of followers. And the writer, winner of the 2023 Princess of Asturias Award for Literature, who had already delayed long enough, has just published The city and its uncertain walls, six years after the two volumes of The death of the commander. According to The writer Leonardo Padura tells us in his review of the book, in the almost 600 pages of the Japanese's new novel – it seems that he forgot to put the ax in -, the reader will find “parallel worlds that imply the existence of different dimensions of reality “, trips through time in the same space, breaks in rational logic with the creation of altered universes typical of fantastic literature, alienated characters (living and dead) bearers of immeasurable sadness, impossible loves and even a little jazz.” . That is, territories already traveled by the author of Norwegian Blues: “A lot of Murakami, all Murakami.”
From Argentina, Ezequiel Pérez offers us Mandarin, a fable located on the Paraná River in which hunger forces an entire town to begin a river trip in search of a better place. Marta Sanz writes in her review that it is a beautiful story that, narrated through the adventurers' chronicler, called Mandarino, becomes a kind of Indian chronicle thanks to a language that “recaptures literary traditions that do not enjoy today.” great popularity and turns them into renewed signs of aesthetic transgression.”
Among the books reviewed this week by the experts of Babeliahighlight the novel Linden Hillswritten by Gloria Naylor in the eighties and which, emulating the Divine Comedy of Dante, changed the course of African American literature; Voroshilovgrad, by the Ukrainian Serhiy Zhadan, writer and activist against the Russian invasion of his country, who narrates the decline of a world after the extinction of the USSR; Germans, a fiction by Sergio del Molino that collects the generational inheritance of a group of Germans living in Cameroon who, after the Great War, surrendered to Spain in Guinea and ended up dispersed in different Spanish cities; and God strike down whoever writes about me, the autobiographical essay that the Mexican Aura García-Junco wrote after the death of her father, Juan Manuel García-Junco, known in the capital's countercultural scene as H. Pascal.
Finally, The restless, the autobiography written by the cursed artist Gérard Garouste (with the help of Judith Perrignon), affected by a mental illness that forced him to live confined for many years but that did not prevent him from building a successful creative career; Alternating currents. Anthology of verse and prose, a RAE publication that honors the Mexican Octavio Paz; and Carminewhich collects the unpublished correspondence of Carmen Martín Gaite with Julián Oslé.
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