3 best books by Xavier Bosch

Nothing more interesting and suggestive for a creator than that of "reconverting." For any follower of a writer or musician, the possible tendency to change can be somewhat uncomfortable, if not frustrating. But there is no one better than the creator to abandon that supposed comfort zone (supposed because I am not a big fan of this coaching term) and project himself towards new ideas.

Y Xavier Bosch is one of those authors who search for stories without labels, capable of entering proposals that surround the noir genre, under that sieve of social and political criticism, to finally indulge in youth novels with romantic overtones to dazzle new readers from that passionate stratum that includes both pubescent readers and eaters of a pink genre that, in the hands of Xavier Bosch acquires more complex and complete tints, a kind of Blue jeans with a more extended repertoire (to quote another Spanish author without detracting from him in his triumphant construction of sagas).

In the synthesis of the varied author experienced in various genres, more nuances and possible unexpected ramifications are always appreciated that complement and enrich. For this reason, a Xavier Bosch who made his way into the world of journalism from his native Barcelona, ​​who began to narrate about the twists and turns of current journalism, who launched himself into that daring transition towards love stories and that you never know what expect from his next story, it is always interesting.

In a bibliography of Xavier Bosch not yet very extensive, we go there with my consideration of his best fictions.

Top 3 recommended books by Xavier Bosch

Both of us

At first I was not clear about what caught my attention in this novel. His synopsis was presented simple, without great pretensions or an enigmatic plot.

It is good that it was a love story, and that a romantic novel does not have to be clothed in any sophistication. But in the end it was precisely that that led me to stop at this novel. In a time when everything succumbs to flashy presentation for immediate sale, simplicity made its way among other readings for me to stop at it.

And that is what is found between these pages. Peace of mind, love understood as the simplest of human instincts. Recreation in language to make the reader understand what two people can come to love each other. Nothing more and nothing less.

Because actually there is sophistication in the story. Nowadays it is very sophisticated for love and friendship to converge in a relationship. The interesting thing about this novel is that it makes you participate in the simplicity of loving someone in the face of everything and before everything. The difficult made easy. Without other dark motivations or artificial additions. And who knows, maybe it can even help you without being one of those soporific self-help books.

Empathizing with characters dedicated to the simplicity of love and friendship without prejudice turns out to be a risky adventure in our world, when it only requires a certain detachment from marked individualism, marked selfishness and what others will say.

Kim and Laura. So different and so magically equal in that common space created. The harmony of two souls that write each page of the book, each scene and situation no matter how adverse or even routine it may seem. Complicity understood as the dialogue between two souls.

Men of honor

Xavier Bosch's literary takeoff began with "Everything will be known", his second novel after a brief foray back in the 90s.

In "Everything will be known" we enter that underground world of journalism that is rooted in hidden interests and the strange mechanism of a world sustained in a very fragile balance. This novel found continuity in the one I review now, "Men of Honor." And there we find Dani Santana, previously at the helm of the written medium Crónica and now moving to television as the only way to continue his journalistic career.

But certainly Dani Santana has that magnetism to attract news difficult to tell. From the ties of the Sicilian mafia to the poorly closed affair of the Liceo fire in 1994. Dani Santana moves in the stormy waters of a reality that could end up drowning him forever. Only the help of the most unexpected hands can emerge it to bring it back to life.

Someone like You

Behind that title hides a vital sentence about the search for the better half that guides any search for a partner. But the matter can catch us more unprepared when that someone like you appears without being deliberately wanted or wanted.

Knowing what you are looking for is a rational fact, a drive towards an almost commercial decision. However, finding that someone like you from the consideration that there can be nothing out there that attracts you to anyone, is absolutely captivating.

And then the foundations of your life shake. It may be a matter of the meeting of two kindred souls... Jean Pierre and Paulina are a world away between Paris and Barcelona. However, the universe of souls has something of an inexorable physical law, by which, when two soulmates meet, the universe implodes.

The problem for Jean Pierre and Paulina is that their time and place is not the right one for their lived circumstances. And all they have left then will be clandestine love.

Someone like You
5/5 - (6 votes)

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