““The secret nature of the things of this world”
Patrick Pron. Anagram, 232 pages, $16,800.
“He’s going to crash, he’s going to lose control of the car and he’s going to hit the fences,” he says. the first line of this novel, about the immediate fate of its protagonist. The imminence, however, gives him time to review his life and, especially, the traumatic event that marked his childhood: the disappearance of his father. Precisely he will be the voice that contrasts his version in the second part of the book. Fathers and daughter are artists, which is why one of the themes of the novel is the inability to discern between what is felt and what is pretended, even in the bonds that should be more real.
Patricio Pron lives in Madrid and trained in Germany, he published around a dozen books. In 2010, “Granta” magazine chose him as one of the best writers in Spanish of his generation. He represents an original voice within today’s Argentine literature, in whose scenario he has an increasing participation. It is worth knowing it.
“Holly”
Stephen King. Plaza & Janés, 624 pages, $29,999.
The books of Stephen King They have the peculiarity of dragging you into the stories they tell just by reading a few lines, to trap you in them until you finish them. After reaching the end, the images remain echoing in memory. The thing is that, as he himself once expressed, the fears that he reflects in his books are everyone’s, private nightmares and, at the same time, testimony of an era.
Holly, the title name of her latest novel, is a detective that fans know: she first appeared in “Mr. Mercedes”, the novel with which King entered the police genre for the first time. In this case, he will investigate the disappearance of a girl, in a quiet city, where the bad guys are two respectable old men, whom no one would dare accuse.
It’s pandemic time, Trump is gone but he may return (Stephen King has been writing against him for years on his Twitter/X account) and people are grieving. A good starting point for a dizzying story. When it comes to forgetting the world, King never disappoints.
“The great deception
Mariana Mazzucato and Rosie Collington. Taurus, 392 pages, $22,999.
Known for her criticism of neoliberalism, the economist Mariana Mazzucato with her colleague Rosie Collington (both belong to the Institute of Innovation and Public Purpose at the University College of London) point, in this book, to what they call the “consulting industry.” Not only do they review the history and the main representatives of this practice that “infantilizes governments”; They also accuse those in power and corporations of “short-termism” and fear of risk. This extensive investigation that will surely arouse concern and controversy among us deals with the excessive influence of consulting firms, their conflicts of interest and their bad decisions. Its conclusions aim to strengthen the growth of government efforts, encouraging those in power to take care of their own work.
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