The 3 best books of Alejandro Corral

From such a stick to such a splinter or how literature is transmitted from generation to generation. From a popularizer of History but also an essential narrator of historical fiction in Spain as it is Jose Luis Corral, to a scion with similar creative sap. Only in the case of Alejandro Corral the narrative imprint is channeled for the moment to suspense as the plot essence, intertwining with disparate scenographies that also probe historical fictions or more current spaces.

The point is that the issue is not a daylight or a marketing product (something that you can always start with like a sanbenito when the father of the child is who he is). So what is relevant is that making a way despite everything with stories that are gaining followers. Nothing better to demonstrate that desire to make writing a profession than the scores of disparate genres typical of the incipient writer.

So in the mighty start of Alejandro Corral we can already enjoy novels loaded with tension, with inspirations between Joel dicker y Dan Brown. An association with other authors that only serves as an approximation for a career that will end up forging that character of the writer with his own voice.

Top 3 recommended novels of Alejandro Corral

The lady of the Prado

The closer the delivery date of the manuscript approaches, the less inspired Oliver Brun, a young writer and researcher in Art History, feels who, after winning a major literary award, fears that he will not live up to expectations with his second novel. Nothing manages to get him out of his block until one day, at the home of his teacher and teacher David Sender, he discovers a secret: the enigmatic photographs of a young woman and a portrait of herself posing as the Mona Lisa.

A few days later, in the town in the mountains of Madrid where David Sender lives, some bones appear in the lake. The evidence confirms that they belong to Melisa Nierga, the young woman in the photographs, and the teacher is immediately detained by the police. Suddenly, Oliver realizes that he has before him not only the great story he was waiting for, but also a chilling unknown: is the man who has taught him everything a murderer?

Oliver turns to his college classmate, Nora, to help him unravel the mystery. Together they will discover some writings in Latin that could link the murder of the girl with one of the most beautiful paintings ever painted, the portrait known as "the Mona Lisa of the Prado".

Is the key to this mystery found in the corridors of the museum or in the lonely streets of the town where it all happened? In this fascinating novel, Alejandro Corral combines the investigation of some of the best kept secrets in the history of art with a fast-paced thriller currently that manages to catch the reader from the front line.

The lady of the Prado

The challenge of Florence

At the beginning of the XNUMXth century, Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo Buonarroti meet for some time in the city of Florence, where the former is portraying Mona Lisa del Giocondo and the latter plans to deliver a formidable coup. Mired in tumultuous personal relationships, they compete for the concession of a huge block of marble in which only Michelangelo sees his David.

The greatest artistic duel in the History of Art. The rivalry between the two artists reached its zenith when the Lordship of Florence decided to commission both of them to paint two murals, facing each other, in the most emblematic room of the Palazzo Vecchio.

A city that was a world. The two geniuses of the Renaissance thus face each other in a colossal challenge orchestrated by the clever Machiavelli. A combat between two opposing souls, dazzling and tormented, who fought the most prodigious of battles: the one that would lead one of them to win the absolute favor of the Florence that had been ruled by the powerful Medici.

The challenge of Florence

New York Sky

The debut of a Alejandro Corral that leads us to that New York that never sleeps and that plunges its inhabitants into placid dreams of lights and big apples or into gloomy nightmares between lost alleys.

New York now. A financier leaves a psychiatric hospital after having been admitted because of a traumatic personal experience. Outside the medical center, you'll meet the most troubled guys from the Big Apple's underworld: unscrupulous thugs, vicious mobsters, drug addicts, and prostitutes. 
Divided between the love of two women and mired in an unsolvable personal conflict, Hank Williams will live a disturbing and unsuspected experience. On New York Sky reality and fiction coexist in parallel universes where nothing and nobody is what it seems.

New York Sky
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1 comment on «The 3 best books of Alejandro Corral»

  1. I just read the Florence challenge and I'm ready to read another book by Alejandro…. He catches one...

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