Julia Navarro it was a surprising writer. I say it this way because when you are used to listening to a regular contributor to all kinds of media, talking about politics or any other social aspect with more or less success, suddenly discovering her on the flap of a book…, it certainly makes an impact.
But curiously, Julia Navarro is a good, very good writer. He proved it the first time, with his debut film: The brotherhood of the holy sheet. Although undoubtedly his hours of strenuous work would take him. Because as much as you are already a recognized character, if writing is not your thing, it ends up being noticed.
Perhaps not to the first work or to the second…, but bad writers, no matter how much previous pulpit they have, if they don't have a goblin, they end up exiting the forum without pain or glory.
This writer has already been 6 historical novelons or of a more thriller tone in little more than 10 years. The phenomenon Julia Navarro came to stay in light of these events and also in the light of her faithful followers who crave good news in those periods of similar cadence between book and book.
3 recommended novels by Julia Navarro
You will not kill
In the continuous process of reinvention of the publishing industry, the contribution of the long sellers that remain as a permanent fund in every bookstore, represent a safe bet to reach more readers in a constant trickle. Consequently, the long-selling novel becomes an enduring product that endures the comings and goings of the fleeting shots of those other bestsellers, which end up dying of success after an explosive irruption.
What does it take to get a long seller? Without a doubt, have an author like Julia Navarro, capable of building a very weighty plot; with varied scenarios; with a prodigiously magnetic cadence in a prolonged development and that also offers an imperishable plot.
History can always become the setting where to build a novel that is sustained at all times. In the past we find timeless readings with which to enjoy and that, after the boiling of the novelty, can maintain a level of sales towards the ideal of the classic that always continues to circulate. Of course, to tell something different you have to insert the intrahistory capable of adjusting to the facts while awakening new emotions and unexpected turns.
Julia Navarro was born as a writer, already being a long seller, just over a decade ago, at the same time as other Spanish long sellers with very different proposals such as Ruiz Zafon o Maria Dueñas They also began to set the tone for the triumphant maintenance of their works in a range of sales that a multitude of authors would already like for their greatest specific successes.
So the arrival of "You will not kill" already sounds like a success with a path of continuity. It is undoubtedly a book built with that aftertaste of a fictionalized chronicle of hard times very close, where the contrast of happiness or passion resounds like intense echoes in the darkness of a twentieth century moved between hot or cold wars that violated the world. western to the blow of dictatorships, conflicts and violence.
Through Fernando, Catalina and Eulogio we relive a time that, from direct testimonies from those who lived through it, seems to belong to us. From the Civil War to the end of the Second World War the whole world moved with greater or less intensity under the same anxiety. And it is then, when reality falters, the moment in which the most gleaming signs of humanity sprout in its opposite sides of kindness or monstrosity. Because everything is human, the best and worst of our species is.
Around the three protagonists and on three universal urban settings such as Madrid, Paris or the mystical Alexandria, we delve into all those nuances of humanity that can comprise the most courageous love opposed to the contrast of violence and death.
From both drives, as disparate as love or crime can be, they end up deriving indelible marks that in the end is what rescues this story of vivid settings, occupied by a diversity of characters that make up a cosmos of unforgettable impressions on the most atrocious time of the century. XX.
The brotherhood of the holy sheet
When Julia started writing at a mature age, it was probably because a great idea was pushing her to do so. And it was true, the idea was great, consistent, interesting, narrated brilliantly and endowed with that load of suspense that will mark his literary career at all times.
Notes on history and on the great enigmas of that great History sprinkled with mythology and facts in the same proportion. The magic of the History of Humanity acquires new vigor in the hands of authors as suggestive as Julia.
Summary: An Italian police team specialized in art intervenes in the investigation of a series of fires and accidents that occurred in the Cathedral of Turin; all those suspected of having participated in the events are mute.
From this track begins an exciting immersion in the history of the relic that leads from the medieval Templars to the existence of a network of refined businessmen, cardinals, people of culture, all of them single, rich and powerful.
The author masterfully combines the historical elements with the best ingredients of the mystery genre to offer us a fast-paced and highly intelligent novel that will keep the reader in suspense from the first page.
Fire, I am already dead
A puzzling title for a very prominent narrative proposal. Nineteenth-century touches and trips to that chiaroscuro world of Europe emerging from the shadows of old beliefs to face a future ruling by reason.
But reason does not always lead to truth. And that's when we begin to understand that the title is one more resource, a preview of the turn that the story can take at any moment. Enigmas, scattered characters who end up orienting themselves towards the same enigmas and the same possible answers ...
Summary: An extraordinary novel of unforgettable characters whose lives are intertwined with key moments in history, from the late nineteenth century to 1948, and that recreates life in such iconic cities as Saint Petersburg, Paris or Jerusalem.
Shoot, I'm already dead is a story full of stories, a great novel that hides many novels inside, and that, from its enigmatic title to its unexpected end, harbors more than one surprise, a lot of adventure and emotions on the surface.
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Tell me who I am
After the comment of a reader, I recover this story for the cause of a selection that, even being a subjective thing, always admits that review of other ways of seeing each plot. It may be that the series adaptation did not convince me. But remembering the plot and its achieved sophistication in balance with the rhythm, I also bring it to this humble blog…
A journalist receives the proposal to investigate the life of his great-grandmother, Amelia Garayoa, a woman he only knows that she fled, abandoning her husband and son shortly before the Spanish Civil War broke out. To rescue her from oblivion, he must reconstruct her story from the ground up, fitting together, one by one, all the pieces of the immense and extraordinary puzzle of her life.
Marked by four men who will change her forever -the businessman Santiago Carranza, the French revolutionary Pierre Comte, the American journalist Albert James and the military doctor linked to Nazism Max von Schumann-, Amelia's story is that of an anti-heroine prey to her own contradictions that he will make mistakes that he will never finish paying for and that he will end up suffering, firsthand, the merciless scourge of both Nazism and the Soviet dictatorship.
From the years of the Second Spanish Republic to the fall of the Berlin Wall, passing through World War II and the Cold War, Julia Navarro's new novel brims with intrigue, politics, espionage, love and betrayal.
Story of a scoundrel
Without knowing if we are in a change of register with hints of continuity or if it is a specific incursion, Julia Navarro left us with honey on our lips in this much deeper novel.
The suspense that the author manages so masterfully remains, but this time we enter a mystery hovering over the protagonist of the plot.
It should not have been an easy task to come up with such a story, where Thomas Spencer becomes the entire novel. What was and what was not, what he did and what he stopped doing. If a final outbreak of consciousness could be born in a guy given over to evil in his life, without a doubt this novel would be the testimony of his last hours.
Summary: Thomas Spencer knows how to get everything you want. Poor health is the price you've had to pay for your lifestyle, but you don't regret it.
However, since his last cardiac episode, a strange sensation has taken hold of him and in the solitude of his luxurious Brooklyn apartment, nights go by when he can't help but wonder what the life he consciously chose not to live would have been like.
The memory of the moments that led him to succeed as a publicist and image consultant, between London and New York in the eighties and nineties, reveals the murky mechanisms that power centers sometimes use to achieve their ends. A hostile world, ruled by men, in which women are reluctant to play a secondary role.
You forget Tell me who I am because for me it is the best and the story of a scoundrel was heavy for me, the rest are all great