Already dreaming of lying down to battle in the sand or on a soft hammock, with a novel to premiere among your most longed-for plans?
Well, here are eight titles that will not disappoint you.
'The disappearance of Adèle Bedeau', by Graeme Macrae Burnet (Impedimenta)
The author of 'A bloody plan' returns with a psychological thriller that will keep you on edge throughout its reading.
Inspector Gorski investigates the disappearance of a waitress in the French city of Saint-Louis.
The main suspect is Manfred Baumann, the last person to see her alive and who was obsessed with her, too.
The investigation will turn into a nightmare for both men.
Tension to the last page.
'My mother, her lover and me', by Adrienne Brodeur (Destiny).
It comes with the endorsement of having been on the narrative best-seller lists of 'The New York Times',' Time ',' People 'and' Entertainment Weekly ', and being named best book of 2019 by' People 'or the' Washington Post '.
The New York author presents in this novel a brilliant and timeless 'memoir' that reads like the best novel and explores the complexity of the love between a mother and her daughter.
Set in the idyllic setting of a good Cape Cod family and their summer home, the novel is an in-depth exploration of breaking out of toxic family cycles.
'KATERINA', by James Frey (Random House Literature)
The new novel by the American writer is autobiographical and takes us to the Paris of the 90s, where an explosive love story unfolds: a young American aspiring writer who has just arrived in the city to follow in the footsteps of
Henry Miller
and a young woman Norwegian model who is on the verge of fame;
both reckless, impulsive, addicted, and deeply in love.
25 years pass and the writer now lives in Los Angeles, he is rich and famous, but he feels paralyzed and depressed.
Until an anonymous message brings him back to life.
'Quick, your life', by Sulvie Schenk (Errata Naturae)
The French author brings us, in less than two hundred pages, to the emotional labyrinth of a young woman in the 50s. Louise grows up in a small town in the French Alps, which she leaves to study in the city.
In Lyon she meets Johann, a German boy with whom she falls in love.
But the trace of the past does not disappear easily, and Louise will discover how the Second World War has left its consequences in the lives of Johann and his family.
What at first seemed like another love story becomes an investigation into the past, the postwar period, resentment and reconciliation.
'The summer we returned to Alegranza', by María Fernández-Miranda (Plaza y Janés)
The journalist, current deputy director of the magazine 'Cosmopolitan', has just published this evocative novel that is the story of a return, that of its protagonist, Leandra, editor in a fashion magazine, to the Indian house that her grandfather Tomás built in the Asturian town of Colunga.
She returns to face an existential crisis and with the intention of creating a perfume that helps her define herself, following the challenge of a famous perfumer.
And so the memories of his childhood associated with smells and also the secrets of his family will begin to emerge.
'The punishment', by Guillem Sala (Tusquets Editores)
A novel that you will not be able to abandon.
Sandra is a teacher at an institute in the Barcelona neighborhood of Sant Andreu.
She has been dating Albert, a writer, for two years.
Between class and class, he begins to notice a newcomer to high school, a young man named Minu.
Sandra is also tutoring a student, Izan, who is about to get into trouble and will need her help soon.
For her part, she has had a turbulent relationship with her sister and mother since childhood, and, although no one knows it, she has been at war with herself for a long time.
To try to set the course, Sandra will evoke the girl she was, before it's too late.
'The sound of the waves', by Margarita García Robayo (Alfaguara)
This time it is not one, but three short novels in which
Margarita García Robayo,
one of the most prominent voices in current Latin American literature, exposes the best of his narrative. In 'Until a Hurricane Passes', a middle-class teenager is the protagonist of a life that is often tedious, in a city near the sea, from which she dreams of fleeing. In 'What I did not learn', a girl carefully observes the figure that her father represents: a lawyer who practices paranormal practices. Finally there is 'Sex Education', a text that moves between autobiographical fiction and the essay, set in an Opus Dei school in the Caribbean. With the latter, the connections between the three titles are revealed: a collection of youth prints of women who rebel with irony, intelligence and courage in the face of tradition and abuse, and who constantly try to reinvent themselves in other worlds.
'The fishermen', by Hans Kirk.
Nordic Books
Written in 1928, it tells the true story of the conflict between the inhabitants of the town of Gjøl and a group of fishermen who moved there from the North Sea coast.
The newcomers, who observe a very strict form of Christian faith, clash with the residents, who have more open and tolerant customs.
The novel caused consternation in the city and throughout the country, selling more than 500,000 copies, more than any other book in the history of Denmark.
This work, the first by
Hans Kirk,
is an essential text to understand how religious fundamentalism affects people's lives.
'The sanctuary of the elephants', by Nativel Preciado (Planet)
Azorín Prize 2021, in this adventure in the heart of Africa the author puts a group of Spanish billionaires in trouble.
Marcos and Elisabeth Blum decide to undertake a trip with shady financial purposes to Tanzania in which they have involved their friends.
But the journey will turn into hell.
Divine justice?
The trip, a mixture of business and pleasure, becomes hell.
The characters suffer accidents, fall ill and confront each other with real fury.
Will any of the jungle's vengeance be spared?
You will have to read the novel to find out.
According to the criteria of The Trust Project
Know more
lifestyle
culture
literature
Literature They discover an unknown comedy by Lope de Vega in the funds of the National Library of Spain
Essay César Antonio Molina: "We live in leisure time, not knowledge"
Literature: Flaubert's unpublished letter that inspired 'Memoirs of Hadrian'
See links of interest
Holidays 2021
Home THE WORLD TODAY
Hungary - France, live
Portugal - Germany, live
Spain - Poland, live