August is the holiday month par excellence in Spain. In other words, it is synonymous with supplies of sun cream to stop a train, a cool destination and a good load of books. If you haven’t stopped by your trusted bookstore yet or you’ve already caught up on the titles on your to-read list, this list of July’s best-selling books can serve as a guide because it includes the basics that are currently in demand and with whom You will not miss reading or a topic of conversation in the pool.
The Alaskan Sanders caseJoel Dicker
“I know what you’ve done.” This message, found in the pants pocket of Alaska Sanders, whose body appears at the edge of the lake in a small town in New Hampshire, is the key to the new investigation that brings together the writer Marcus Goldman and Sergeant Perry Gahalowood. On this occasion, they will have the help of a young police officer, Lauren Donovan, determined to solve the web of secrets behind the case. As they discover who Alaska Sanders really was, the ghosts of the past will also resurface.especially Harry Quebert’s.
The Alaska Sanders Case (Literatures)
Miranda works as deputy director in a fashion magazine and is happy with her partner, Tristán. That’s why she doesn’t understand that she’s leaving her. She wishes she could turn back the clock and go back to the moment they met… But what if she really had the chance to change her story? Elísabet Benavent, the queen of erotic and romantic literature in Spanish, has returned with a time jump story reconstructs in a random (and hilarious) way the stellar moments of a couple’s relationship.
All those things that I will tell you tomorrow (SUMA)
What if we try it…?Megan Maxwell
Verónica is 38 years old and is an independent and hard-working woman, but also quite stubborn and controlling. He used to believe in princesses and princes, until his became a frog. and three rules were imposed to enjoy sex without commitment. So far, they have given him very good results but when he meets a man in his forties; self-confident; attractive; sexy and wildly romantic, she manages to drive her crazy. She knows because her heart races at the sight of him. It’s hearing her voice and getting hot from her. It’s thinking about him and noticing that stampeding elephants run in her stomach. She knows that they are very different, but the opposite poles attract…
What if we try it…? (Erotica)
Bye little oneMaximo Huerta
This is the heartbreaking testimony of a writer faced with the harshest of his narratives: that of his own life. Assaulted by memories of him as he cares for his sick mother, the past presents itself with voids that he cannot fill. Through silences and a great talent for observation, the author lays bare his intimacy with beauty and the portrait of a country and a time from his own family universe. He is accompanied as a confidant by his old pet, a loyal and charming dog.. A farewell story. The reconstruction of a childhood in which everyone (grandparents, parents and children) has been too silent.
Goodbye, little one: Fernando Lara Novel Award 2022 (Spanish and Ibero-American Authors)
AnnihilationMichelle Houellebecq
Houellebecq orchestrates an ambitious novel that is many things at once: a thriller with esoteric fringes, a work of political criticism, family portrait and existential narration about pain and love. It places us in the year 2027. France is preparing for elections that it is very possible that a television star will win. Paul Raison works as an adviser on that bid. He is a taciturn and unbelieving man, whose marital relationship breaks down. In addition, his father (retired spy from the DGSI) suffers a stroke and is paralyzed. As if all this were not enough, Paul will have to face a personal crisis when he is diagnosed with a serious illness.
Annihilation: 1081 (Panorama Narratives)
The danger of being saneRosa Montero
Starting from her personal experience and numerous books on psychology, neuroscience, literature and memoirs by authors from different disciplines, Rosa Montero offers a gripping study on the links between creativity and mental instability. And he does so by sharing numerous curiosities about how our brain works when creating, breaking down all the aspects that influence the process, and assembling them before the reader’s eyes like a detective willing to solve the scattered pieces of an investigation.
The danger of being sane (Brief Library)
The death told by a sapiens to a NeanderthalJuan Jose Millas and Juan Luis Arsuaga
After the extraordinary reception of The life told by a sapiens to a neanderthal, this brilliant tandem of Spanish literature revisits themes such as death and eternity, longevity, illness, aging, natural selection, programmed death and survival. Humour, biology, nature, life, lots of life… and two fascinating characters: Sapiens and Neanderthals. The paleontologist reveals essential aspects of our existence to the writer, and discusses the advisability of transmitting his random vision of life to a Millás on a diet who discovers that old age is a country where you still feel like a foreigner.
Death told by a sapiens to a Neanderthal (Hispanic)
the fair wordsMilena Busquets
Milena Busquets practices in these diaries a writing of impressionist brushstrokes and achieves that from the everyday, from the seemingly anodyne, the epiphany emerges. In these pages, masks appear from time to time, but above all life appears: children, love, yoga classes, visits to the psychiatrist, chance encounters, reunions, walks around the neighborhood, writing as a daily gymnastics… And seduction and the passage of time also appear, the disquisitions on true elegance, Proust, the literary and vital lessons of Chekhov, the emotion to tears before the celebration of the life of the West Side Story by Spielberg or a hilarious list of typologies of readers observed during the long signing sessions at fairs. And love, always love.
The right words: 697 (Hispanic Narratives)
Soap and water, notes on involuntary eleganceMarta D. Riezu
Difficult to describe, the book revolves around the same question Cecil Beaton was asked: what is elegance? And he replied: soap and water. Which is the same as saying: what is elegant is what is simple, what is useful, what is lifelong. Involuntary elegance is associated with a generous gesture, with discreet joy, with the person who contributes and appeases. It is a personal canon constructed, not as a refuge from vulgarity (because vulgarity can be wonderful), but against the substitute.
Soap and water (Compacts)
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