The dazzling appearance of the writer Christian Gálvez has been able to overshadow the well-known television host. And that speaks enormously well of the capacity of this new novelist who already has to his credit a substantial bibliography, with his historical fictions that have sometimes aroused controversy.
Of course, when the work of an author transcends the criticism of purists in any field, it has worked overwhelmingly well. And assuming that historical fiction as a popular part of novelism, everything can happen in those parallel worlds that usually pose uchronies or transformations.
The case of Christian Gálvez is for me the most prominent of the stereotype of a television character reached in literature. From other great references such as Monica Carrillo, Carlos of Love o Carme Chaparro for me they have a way with the most overwhelming Gálvez if we stick to strictly literary arguments.
Top 3 recommended novels by Christian Gálvez
Kill Leonardo Da Vinci
The assault on the novel by Christian Gálvez. And as it started, it invited us to learn about the genius of geniuses and predicted a narrative series about the time of the greatest splendor of our civilization, the Renaissance.
The question was to summarize all the elements of the plot so as not to make this story one more among the thousands of novels that can be published a year in the world on historical aspects with an enigmatic component. The best way to do this is to aim directly at the thriller, at the power of psychological tension rather than at the outburst of the too-hackneyed mystery in these struggles ...
Europe, XNUMXth century. While Spain, France and England finalize their unification, the Italian states are involved in permanent conflicts because of religion, power and the desire for territorial expansion. The only thing that unites them is the cultural renaissance of the arts. In the Florence of the Medici, the epicenter of this artistic display, an anonymous hand accuses a young and promising Leonardo da Vinci of sodomy. For two months he will be interrogated and tortured until the lack of evidence releases him. With his reputation damaged, Leonardo will set out on new horizons to show his talent and to appease the psychological consequences caused in prison.
Who accused him? For what reason? While debating between evasion or revenge, Leonardo will discover that not everything is as it seems when it comes to achieving success. Showing off an exhaustive and exquisite documentary style, the result of several years of research and trips to the most representative settings of the genius's life, Christian Gálvez constructs a thriller historical, an adventure novel in which art, revenge and passion come together. A work that captivates from the first pages and that will change the opinion that until now is had of the Florentine genius.
Hannah
We do not leave the luminous Florence of Da Vinci but we advance centuries until we find ourselves in the darkest XNUMXth century. A perhaps unintended but even more powerful contrast to set the contrast of dehumanization in World War II.
A call, a recruitment card from the Nazi German armed forces, and a handwritten phrase inside it trigger an emotional crisis in Hannah. "Hannah, girl number 37. G. Wolf"
The name of G. Wolf will emerge strongly and will become the common thread that will allow him to immerse himself in the story of his grandmother, a survivor of the Second World War who never told her granddaughter about her family's odyssey in occupied Italy. the Nazis. Hannah reveals a dance between past and present in a city: Florence. The city of the bridges over the Arno as a witness to the barbarism and cruelty of fascism in 1944, but also as the cradle of men and women, lovers of art and culture, who, despite the war, tried to find some light in a period of darkness.
Hannah It is a vital and passionate story, a fast-paced novel in which Christian Gálvez rescues from the past the forgotten story of a German consul in Florence, Gerhard Wolf, and events whose consequences serve as a warning in a present full of uncertainty.
Pray for Michelangelo
As the world makes its way as we know it today, overturning over and over again the statements of the Church believed to be incontestable, the contrasts get bigger and bigger until they become destabilizing paradoxes.
The people, the people from any point in the known world could still be easily subjugated. But artists, the most creative beings, always find their own light far above the prevailing darkness. The long-awaited second installment of Christian Gálvez's "Renaissance Chronicles" reveals the secrets of the man behind the greatest artist in history, Michelangelo.
Europe, XNUMXth century. The discovery of a new world brings out the Holy Scriptures. New lands and races that do not appear in the Bible shake the foundations of Christianity as Martin Luther confronts the Holy See and causes a schism with terrible collateral damage. Florence of the Medici will see a young Michelangelo Buonarroti leave, called by the States Vaticanos, where he will achieve glory in the Eternal City.
Using chisel, pigment and character he will create his own legend while the known world will never be the same. Meanwhile, on the other side of the Mediterranean, the son of Juana I and Felipe el Hermoso will access the throne of Spain and become the emperor of the Holy Roman Empire, which will be a big problem for the France of Francis I and the Rome of Gregory XIII.
Very good information about Christian Galvez's books, thanks
Thank you Eleanor.