“Your name is not your name ”by Federico Bianchini. Marea, 184 pgs., $ 22,900.
It is one of those stories that we never get tired of listening or reading, because in the end the truth is imposed and the truth is always a safer path towards happiness. Federico Bianchini, excellent chronicler, Tour the path that led Mercedes Landa to find out that this was not his real name but Claudia Poblete Hlaczikthat her biological parents had died in captivity and that those who had raised her was her appropriate.
The story accompanies Claudia’s slow transition, the way in which the pieces fit into a complicated puzzle, where nothing is easy or simple. In one of the most exciting moments in history, she has in front of a stack of cassettes that gave her in court and begins to listen to the testimony of relatives and friends of José and Gertrudis, her real parents.
Sober and fair, the chronicle consists of very short chapters, fragments of a process that took years, marches and countermarkers and feelings found until they find its own balance. A story worth recovering.
“Sad tiger ”by Neige Sinno. Anagrama, 248 pgs., $ 27,500.
Very Recommended by Annie Ernaux, Nobel Prize for Literature 2022the essay-not “sad tiger” moved France and became one of the most commented books of 2023. The text shares with others, written in the world, a topic that has abounded After “me too”: The complaints of the victims of abuse.
The story of Neige Sinno is that of his own childhood and the violations he suffered from his stepfather. After adolescence, when he could leave the home, he finally decided to tell his mother, denounce his abuser and take him to trial. The author, who also writes fiction and literary criticism, proposes more a book of reflection than the naked narration of what has happened to her. In the text, the questions accumulate. Sinno wonders about his obsession (read everything that has to do with the subject), his hyper surveillance so that others do not happen the same, their certainty that the damage marks for a lifetime and even its impulse to make literature with trauma. She herself answers that writing is her way, perhaps the only one, to gain ground to darkness.
“All sinners bleed ”by SA Cosby. Motus, 400 pgs., $ 32,500.
SA Cosby is one of the most successful United States police novel authors today. Some call the genre that writes “Southern Noir”, a variant of the black novel that enters the conflicts and particular miseries of the south of the country. Cosby, like all teachers of the genre, tells dark and marginal stories, crossed by skepticism and black humor. After 3 novels acclaimed by the criticism and winners of very prestigious awards (“My Darkest Prayer”, “Damn asphalt” and “Tears like Navajas”), his seal in Spanish (Motus, by Trini Vergara Editions) publishes his latest book: “All sinners bleed.” The protagonist is Titus Crown, Sheriff of a small town in Virginia (author of the author), who follows the footprint of a serial murderer while facing the most violent racism in the region. The author confessed that he began writing the novel after the death of George Floyd, so the racial issue is central in the plot.
Light, bitter and dizzying descends from the best tradition of American popular narration.
“The attire of the books ”by Jhumpa Lahiri. Gray Storm, 100 pgs., $ 17,900.
This little book was published by the Mexican Seal Gris Torma, and integrates the editor collection, in which the main protagonists of the editorial guild tell the entrelons of his task. In this case, Lahiri talks about the tapas to question the excesses of information that usually contain favor of uniformity.
“Libertad ”by Angela Merkel. RBA, 816 pgs., $ 45,000.
This extensive volume contains the memoirs of one of the most relevant downs of the century. They travel the chapters of his life between 1954, when he was born and 2021, when he left his mandate. An exceptional career for a woman who for 16 years was the chancellor of her country facing all kinds of circumstances. For policy scholars.
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Fiction
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“My name is Emilia del Valle”
Isabel Allende
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“The death of others”
Claudia Piñeiro
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“The good evil”
Samanta Schweblin
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“The vegetarian”
Han Kang
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“The New Year’s crime”
Daniel Balmaceda
Non-fiction
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“This pain is not mine”
Mark Wolynn
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“Recipes to live better and more time”
Daniel López Rosetti
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“Atomic habits”
James Clear
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“Happiness-New Edition”
Gabriel Rolón
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“The country that owners want”
Alejandro Bercovich
Source: Yenny Libraries and Athenaeum.
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