A publishing phenomenon has two possibilities in the medium term, to claim new novels capable of maintaining the hook and even mark an evolution and an undoubted improvement, or to finally stagnate in that strange assumption of the invasion of muses for the only work, which is so little so atypical if we consider great authors of literature as kennedy toole, Patrick Süskind, salinder or even Kafka, all of them remembered, in the popular imagination at least, for a single masterpiece.
light gabas She has been emerging as the writer who is establishing herself in that position of a national bestseller, in a genre between manners and the historical that has a flourishing niche thanks to Luz herself and authors such as Maria Dueñas. A genre that stages moments of history punctuated by war or convulsive social and political circumstances to present, by magical contrast, great love stories that adorn and complement at times, that support the plot in others. Very intense lives on their own narrated events that offer a fascinating review of that other past time that always sounds better thanks to the idealization of some people who, despite disparate adversities, make us much more human than what we have to observe in the present.
I do not mean to say that this idealization supposes to dispense with stark realities of the past. But it is that this manifest crudeness also made the strongest wills flourish in the fight against inequalities or injustices. And it is these aspects that make this historical setting for fiction a kinder place to consider the human being capable of doing better in the face of adversity.
Top 3 recommended novels by Luz Gabás
Like fire on ice
Luz Gabás's third novel is a display of skill and mastery of a genre almost made its own ... Whether it was worth making a decision or not is a question that tends to be raised in the future with advantageous overtones or at least with a more practical perspective and less sentimental.
What happened in the youth of Implement and what changed the course of his life had to do with a sense of honor, with the notion of what should always be defended. This idea is the starting point of "Like fire to ice." The presentation of a value of honor highly regarded in the historical period of the plot, the XNUMXth century.
Madrid is the first stage, accessory in terms of the development of the plot, although it does remain as the place where the life of Attua and his friend Matías would take unpredictable directions. But this novel it's mainly a love story.
Of course, nothing to do with a pink weave of little stem. light gabas She is one of the few authors who knows how to build a solid, complex and at the same time captivating narrative in her reading with the main focus pointing to a love story. Love, in full bloom of a romanticism that also came to Spain in this XNUMXth century, is not by itself the leitmotif that surrounds the knot of history.
The particular circumstances that surround it are what make it a sum of scenarios in which it tries to find its place, despite so many and many vicissitudes. That love between the protagonists confers a certain lyricism to the entire work, as if it were rescued from an ideology of Becquer passed into the more traditional prose.
A true gem that captivates and excites any reader. Of course, the plot has its substance, and advances moved by a dynamic script, alive. In short, entertainment, emotions and a final feeling of having tasted a great work.
Away from Louisiana
They chased their dreams on the banks of the Mississippi. Their lives were bigger than the river.
After years of colonization, the Girard family accepts the controversial decision of their country, France, to cede to Spain in 1763 part of the untamed lands of the Mississippi; 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 troubled times, Suzette Girard and Ishcate, an Indian from the Kaskaskia tribe, will fight their own battle: to preserve their love from the threats of the world they have lived through. All this makes up a captivating and monumental novel that spans the four decades in which Spain possessed the legendary lands of Louisiana.
Luz Gabás, one of the most widely read authors on our literary scene, returns to bookstores with a novel that will captivate all her readers just ten years after the publication of her first book Palmeras en la nieve, a phenomenon of criticism and international sales whose film adaptation was a resounding box office success. Her new work Far from Louisiana, winner of the 2022 Planeta Prize, is a masterful novel and a great historical fresco about Spain's adventure in the heart of North America.
Palm trees in the snow
That great novel with which Luz stormed the sales charts and that has finally enjoyed its film version to end up rounding out a literary proposal halfway between the gray Spain of the mid-XNUMXth century and the exuberant (also by name) colony of Fernando. Poo, still today considered a Spanish overseas province in distant southern Africa.
Kilian and Jacobo travel there and together with them we discover those contrasts that occurred between Spain marked by political, moral and religious obscurantism and the bright onslaught of life offered by an island where everything seems to invite the hedonism of leisure time between long-suffering cocoa collections.
On that island, the days pass with other spirits and unknown drives for young people sustained in an impossible balance between drives and duties. Those days the lives of the young people changed forever, as well as that of their own family that was peppered with the false morality of the times.
Long after, those days lived are being rebuilt by Clarence, who, with his wit and passion for family history, will end up revealing an incomparable secret. A novel composed with those necessary comings and goings from yesterday to today to end up composing a canvas of time with the aroma of recent glories and failures.
Other recommended books by Luz Gabás
Back to your skin
It is what you have. In my experience, I have found people who thought this novel minor to Palmeras en la Nieve and other readers who consider reading it as a great discovery because, precisely, they had not yet read Palmeras en la Nieve.
The natural evolution of an author always points to improvement, only that the disparate theme can awaken more or less taste for one work or another, without more. Because this novel is a great story that maintains an even greater degree of intensity.
In it we accompany Brianda in both times. Because the protagonists share a name and lineage from the remote XNUMXth century to the present day. The two protagonists bond thanks to a few days of weakness of the current Brianda in which her retirement to the old family home guides her towards the fast-paced story of the original Brianda.
Witches' days, autos-da-fé, impossible loves, murders and debts whose hope of resolution depends on a future in which someone like the current Brianda knows how to undo the knots of the past.
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