3 best books by Elvira Lindo

Sometimes the good also sticks. For Elvira Lindo share life and desk with the huge Antonio Munoz Molina it could serve as a spur to develop that narrative imprint. And in faith that she ended up finding her, until she became a fundamental author of the infantile and juvenile genre and managed with solvency in other types of adult genres.

It should be understood (in the case of susceptible minds) that the reference to learning is not a macho consideration. My hypothesis only stems from the objectivity that Antonio Muñoz Molina began publishing novels long before Elvira Lindo.

Another possible hypothesis would be that the wood of writers shared between the two ends up facilitating a meeting space added to love ... who knows?

The point is that Elvira Lindo's career has always run along an independent and varied path, achieving real successes in youth fiction while also successfully lavishing intimate or humorous novels. An all-terrain writer in which you can always find a good book to give to all types of readers.

Top 3 recommended novels by Elvira Lindo

in the lion's den

The wolf is always stalking the Little Red Riding Hood as a paradigm of the naivete of childhood in the face of the risks of the forest. That is why the forest is the simile of discovery. Especially since the myths and legends about the fears that always remain stem from that ancestral imaginary of leafy forests with their legends. From there each one ends up exporting their fears and hiding their secrets between narrow paths of memories.

Julieta and her mother arrive at La Sabina to spend the holidays. At eleven years old, that lost village seems to Juliet the best place to leave behind problems she doesn't know how to put a name to. That eternal summer full of first times, she will discover that the foundations of the town are made of secrets and memories; the edges of the forest, of tales and legends; and the hearts of the people of fear, hate, love and hope, the four feelings that nourish her dreams and also her worst nightmares.

In the Wolf's Den arises from the perspective of an author who has dedicated a large part of her work to observing childhood in all its richness, singularity and vulnerability, and shows that the stories we share, and the ones we tell each other, can break the curse of a poisoned inheritance.

Elvira Lindo returns to pure fiction creating her own literary territory, the uninhabited Sabina and her forests, a setting in which reality and fable go hand in hand, as in classic tales. The reader who delves into it will be immersed in a magnificent novel, of increasing intensity, before whose mystery they will only be able to respond with amazement and emotion.

in the lion's den

Manolito glasses

Let us place children's and young people's literature in the place it deserves. As an approach to the reading world, nothing better than absolutely empathetic books for children.

Adventures, feelings and emotions typical of a surprising, wonderful world and at the same time so close to our neighborhood reality that it manages to captivate all types of readers.

Since his departure back in 1994, many new adventures have taken us into the Carabanchel neighborhood with Manolito and his inseparable Orejones López in that fight typical of any adventure between good and evil more, only more at street level than ever.

The first installment was a bombshell, but any of his new adventures keep that brilliant prose absolutely close to the world of children, with a sly point and a constant vindication of childhood on the street.

Manolito glasses

A word from you

In my opinion, writing novels for children or young people is the most difficult thing for an adult. So when you discover Elvira Lindo unfolding in a crude, emotional and overwhelmingly human realism, you have no choice but to assume the evidence on the merit of a writer who is capable of moving in two such different fields with identical solvency.

In this book two stories, two lives, those of Rosario and Milagros come together. They are both street sweepers and in their urban chores they share their dreams and nightmares, their frustrations and their hopes. Between the two a scene of maximum emotion is drawn as they undress their souls in an alienating reality in which, however, their humanity overwhelms everything.

There is only one problem, the harmony of the two souls announces a rupture when one of the women decides to take on new life challenges, favored by a stroke of optimism ...

A word from you

What I have left to live

If there is one aspect that stands out in Elvira Lindo's narrative, that is vitalism. Elvira Lindo's characters, starting with Manolito Gafotas and ending with any other of his disparate novels, give off that vital aroma, that sensation of stepping on the present floor with the intensity of which he does not want to escape, despite the fact that he already senses that the future ended up erasing everything with its rain of time.

The Madrid of the eighties that Elvira Lindo knew well becomes the setting for this novel. Antonia's circumstances, in her early twenties, have nothing to do with the famous Madrid scene. Her turn is to take care of her son in solitude, with the arrests of an inertia that require strength not to give in to despair.

Antonia's story is a completely dissonant composition for the stage in which she is misplaced. The city moves at a different pace, opportunities do not stop coming and weakness appears every second.

Then there is him, his creature so alien to everything, capable of rescuing her in the moments when infinite sadness appears once more in his existence.

What I have left to live
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