February is always the shortest month although, depending on our circumstances and personal experiences, we can make it the longest of all or even shorter than it already is. If these weeks you have been hooked on a good book, it is most likely that it has passed in the blink of an eye. And what the best-seller lists tell us is that Spanish readers have been very hooked on these titles. Luckily, March arrives already loaded with the last days of winter and more days of endless reading.
The crystal cuckooJavier Castillo
New York, 2017. Cora Merlo, a first-year medical resident, suffers a sudden heart attack that forces her to have a heart transplant. Still convalescing, the young woman is visited by a strange woman with an enigmatic offer: to spend a few days in Steelville, a small inland town, to learn about the life of his son Charles, the donor of his heart. Cora thus enters a home full of secrets, a mystery that spans twenty years and a hermetic town where, just the day she arrived, a baby disappears in a public park.
The crystal cuckoo (SUMA)
UsManuel Villas
Irene believes that she has lived the most perfect marriage in the world. Years of absolute dedication and passion between two human beings, this is how she evokes her love with Marcelo, her late husband. This relationship, the greatest of love stories, kept them isolated from their environment, on the margins of common reality. With the loss of Marcelo, Irene’s world is broken, but she discovers an unusual way to continue living with him to get ahead. That way of remembering and invoking who she was the love of her life builds this literary fantasy.
Us: Nadal Novel Award 2023: 1600 (Áncora & Delfín)
children of the fableFernando Aramburu
Asier and Joseba, two excited young men, left in 2011 for the south of France with the intention of becoming ETA militants. They await instructions at a chicken farm, welcomed by a French couple with whom they hardly understand each other. There they find out that the gang has announced the cessation of armed activity. Left to their own devices, without money, experience or weapons, they decide to continue the fight on their own, founding their own organization, in which one will assume the role of boss and disciplined ideologue, and the other the more relaxed subordinate. The contrast between the desire for feats and the most ridiculous adventures, under a persistent rain, is taking the story towards some kind of comedy drama. Until they meet a young woman who proposes a plan.
Children of the fable (Andanzas)
waiting for the delugeDolores Redondo
Between 1968 and 1969, the murderer the press would call Bible John killed three women in Glasgow. He has never been identified and the case is still ongoing. In this novel, set in the early 1980s, Scottish police investigator Noah Scott Sherrington manages to reach John Bible, but a failure in his heart at the last moment prevents him from arresting him. Despite his fragile state of health, and against medical advice and the refusal of his superiors to continue his pursuit of the serial killer, Noah follows a hunch that will lead him to Bilbao in 1983. Just a few days before he a veritable flood devastated the city.
Waiting for the Deluge: 1591 (Anchora & Dolphin)
Start overColleen Hoover
Lily and her ex-husband, Ryle, have just agreed to joint custody of their baby girl when Lily meets her first love, Atlas, again. After nearly two years apart, she’s excited that time is on her side for once, and she immediately says yes when Atlas asks her out on a date. But her joy fades when she realizes that although they are no longer married, Ryle still has a role in the family, and she will not have Atlas Corrigan in her life and her daughter’s life. Vstart again toggles between Lily and Atlas perspectives and picks up right where you left off break the circle. We will discover more about the past of Atlas and We will follow Lily in search of a second chance to find true love while having to deal with a jealous ex-husband..
Start over (It Starts with Us) (International Planet)
In the shadowPrince Harry
It was one of the most heartbreaking images of the 20th century: two children walking behind their mother’s coffin as the world watched. As Diana of Wales was laid to rest, billions of people wondered what these princes must be thinking and feeling and what direction their lives would take next. In Harry’s case, this is that story. With his direct and uncompromising frankness, In the shadow is a publication full of revelations, insight and wisdom, acquired at great cost, on the power of love.
In the shadow (Other works)
Far from LouisianaLuz Gabas
The Girard family accepts France’s controversial decision to cede part of the Mississippi land to Spain in 1763. However, he will suffer the consequences of the rebellions of his compatriots against the Spanish, the American war against the English for the independence of the United States and the desperate struggle of the native Indians for the survival of their peoples. In such turbulent times, Suzette Girard and Ishcate, an Indian from the Kaskaskia tribe, will fight their own battle: preserve their love from the threats of the world they have lived in. A novel, winner of the Planeta Prize, that goes through the decades in which Spain possessed the lands of Louisiana.
Far from Louisiana: Planeta Award 2022 (Spanish and Ibero-American Authors)
Stories of married womenCrisitna Campos
Gabriela is a woman married to a man she loves. The one she adores. A man who begs her for sex once a month. And she Gabriela, because she loves him, because she adores her husband, without wanting it, she grants it to him. But every morning, Gabriela meets a stranger, a man whom she, incomprehensibly, desires. Gabriela is a journalist and works alongside her writing partners, Silvia and Cósima, women with whom she has forged a precious and solid friendship. Like Gabriela, they too they hide little secrets from their husbands.
Stories of married women: Planeta Award 2022 Finalist (Spanish and Ibero-American Authors)
Emerald Sea Braid (Secret Novel 1), Brandon Sanderson
On her home island on an emerald green ocean, the only life Trenza knows is a simple one, marked by the pleasure of collecting the cups brought back by sailors from distant lands and listening to the stories her friend Charlie tells her. But when Charlie’s father takes him away on a boat to find him a wife and catastrophe strikes, Charlie’s Braid must stow away on a ship and set out in search of the sorceress who lives in the deadly Midnight Sea. On seas of spores full of pirates, Will Trenza be able to abandon her quiet life and create a place for herself in an ocean where a single drop can mean instant death?
Braid of the Emerald Sea (Secret Novel 1)
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