“Monsters” by Nuria Amat “This entertainment was born from a conversation. The theme of it revolved around the supposed infidelity of women when it occurred to me to think of an exception that would save the female black legend. Extracted from the back cover. See also: http://namat.wordpress.com/biografia-biography/ http://www.escritores.org/index.php/biografias/133-nuria-amat The selected titles are a sample of the materials
“Light is older than love” by Ricardo Menéndez Salmón “One Monday in 1350, when Europe is recovering from the Black Death, the future Pope Gregory XI visits the Tuscan painter Adriano de Robertis to destroy his last work, the blasphemous Virgin bearded On February 25, 1970, the American painter
“Black, black, black” by Marta Sanz “Black, black, black is a splendid black novel that can be read as such, but also, and above all, as something else, since Marta Sanz offers us an insurgent reading of violence of the system, about its imperfection, a story where the idea of crime as a result of
“Velázquez's Hands” by Lourdes Ortiz “Teodoro, a university professor married to a much younger former student, is investigating Velázquez's life to write an essay and discovers revelations that he finds hard to believe, such as the painter's possible encounter with Gentileschi's Artemis, the first woman considered a painter in history,
“Question of self-love” by Carme Riera “After a long year of silence, Angela, an elderly novelist, writes to her friend Ingrid to explain what happened. It is simply a love story, a sad adventure in which Angela has staked everything on a man whose mask she mistook.
“Inés y la alegría” by Almudena Grandes “Toulouse, summer 1939. Carmen de Pedro, responsible in France for the decimated Spanish communists, crosses paths with Jesús Monzón, a minor party official who, unbeknownst to her, harbors an ambitious plan . A few years later, in 1944, Monzón, now his partner, has organized the most
“Written in an instant” by Antonio Muñoz Molina “What matters most about a writer is not that he invents some memorable character. It matters that it is invented from nothing and solitude to a few readers, to just one. To write is to speak to someone whom we do not know, it is to throw a stone at
“Tomorrow in the battle think on me” by Javier Marías “Published throughout Europe to widespread acclaim, TOMORROW IN THE BATTLE THINK OF ME is a masterfully crafted mystery, a subtle and complex novel of a man trapped by a terrible secret. Marta invites Victor, whom she had met only a few days before, to dinner
“Barrio de marvels” by Rosa Chacel “Yes, with her first novel “Estación. Round trip” Rosa Chacel was 30 years ahead of the most experimental and distancing that literature has given, the French “Nouveau roman”, with “Barrio Maravillas” she approaches the reader and offers her what she detects as the pulse of
“The gray house” by Josefina Aldecoa “Nobody dares to reveal what time is hiding. London, 1950. Teresa, a Spanish woman who has just finished her degree, arrives at a London residence for university students. In the months that her stay will last, she will meet a group of women from different social classes and nationalities who