Journalist and writer. Maruja torres she is one of those that has made a name for herself since she became self-taught. End up being one of the most reputable columnists and writers (in her strictly writing or narrative role) having risen based on work, dedication and passion can only be a matter of creative genius.
An author with a marked class consciousness, which she manifests as early as in fiction as in some of her most controversial columns, she has written novels of great personal universes, with characters of depth and depth, but almost always within adverse social circumstances.
The tragedy of living, the drama as the source towards overcoming. Perhaps a reference, in the literary commitment of the feminine, of later authors such as Almudena Grandes, to his credit are already unforgettable novels of the current narrative scene.
Top 3 best novels by Maruja Torres
While we live
Many of us discovered this author thanks to this great novel. A new proposal on writing, on the role of the writer (of the writer in this case), a presentation of what it means to give your life and your dedication to looking for stories to put on paper ..., and the emptiness, the fear of Writer's void ...
Summary: It is a great story of admiration and jealousy, of lies and truth, of hate and love, of losses and encounters. Judit is twenty years old and wants to be like Regina Dalmau, a consecrated novelist in her late fifties, for whom she feels an almost sick obsession.
On All Saints' Day she goes to meet him, convinced that the writer will see her talent for literature and will help her leave the proletarian neighborhood in which she has grown up and which she denies. Judit ignores that Regina, mired in a serious creative crisis, and victim of profound moral unrest, cannot even help herself.
The young woman's appearance at the famous novelist's house will make her face the true roots of her double crisis, and her relationship with Teresa, the never-forgotten woman who illuminated her past.
Teresa's last lesson will last beyond her death, because this great novel deals with the inheritance that women pass on when they choose one another to weave a bond stronger than blood.
Rain men
War, conflicts have a single gift, to make you love with absolute dedication, with total passion. When what you want can be taken away from you every day, your life becomes a defense and a fair assessment of what you have. And even then, you can make a mistake by surrendering to the fleeting.
Summary: There was a betrayal. And a conspiracy. Young Malcolm arrives in Beirut not knowing that this city is going to change his life. The love, identity and war of others will make him a man of rain between two women of rock.
With Men of Rain, Maruja Torres gives us a story of discoveries and love in times of uncertainty. Beirut, capital of pain, the city that symbolizes the fragility of our time is the setting of this magnificent novel. «In Villa Encore my disloyalty was consummated.
What else could I do? Blood is blood. I had burst onto the scene, believing myself a spontaneous actor. And I performed the piece that others wrote for me. The night of my second meeting with Valeria lasted until dawn.
Leaving the hotel we went to his apartment, that place where we will soon say goodbye, on this winter's day and in this Beirut where men fall like rain or bullets. Torrential, we change his face without changing anything else. Rain we are, men. Women are walls, they are stones. They form the rock on which it is built, without altering it, how much can be transformed or demolished. "
Wait for me in heaven
Halfway between friendship and vital teaching. What of Maruja Torres with Terenci moix y Vazquez Montalban It was more than friendship. Maruja seemed indebted to this story, a biographical projection, a fictionalized fiction, something of what united these three brilliant characters of our culture, a story about what they told each other and what they left pending to share.
Summary: A story for adults about the happiness of never giving up. The narrator and protagonist meets in the Beyond with her friends Terenci Moix and Manolo Vázquez Montalbán. Together they can go back in time and revisit the scenes of their sentimental upbringing, as well as instantly move to any point they want.
Wait for me in heaven It is a joyous book with which Maruja Torres consecrates her talents as a storyteller, making fascinating use of the freedom of genres. The free and fictional evolution of a generation that lived intensely and changed the country - to which Maruja Torres, Manolo and Terenci belong.
