Permafrost, by Eva Baltasar

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The end of living. The intense need for life sometimes leads to the furthest point, to the contrary. It is about that peculiar magnetism of the poles that in the end seem to be the same separate thing in origin. A thing, an essence, a something that insistently demands and ...

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Late Afternoon, by Kent Haruf

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After his previous book published in Spain: The Song of the Plain, Kent Haruf returns to the assault of the bookstores with this novel that again addresses an intimacy of private lives, suddenly abandoned in the middle of the moor, among the valley of already dry tears , what has been ...

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A Life for Sale, by Yukio Mishima

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A truly eager soul like Yukio Mishima always ends up colliding with the farce of conventions, with the fleetingness of time, with the peremptory feeling of happiness. In this novel A Life for Sale, the author presents an alter ego in its essentials. Hanio ...

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Hermann Ungar's full narrative

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Hermann Ungar, a Jew in the former Czechoslovakia, a writer influenced by Thomas Mann and determined to write about the unstoppable drives that move the human being. Between dreams and sex, between dehumanization, tragedy and the comic of surviving oneself. A search for the human being since ...

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Alias ​​Grace, by Margaret Atwood

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Can homicide be justified? ... I am not referring to an approach under the current state of our most civilized societies. Rather, it is about looking for some kind of natural right, however remote in time, that could justify killing a fellow man. Currently we resort to the ...

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The Puppet Man, by Jostein Gaarder

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Our relationship with death leads us to a kind of fatal coexistence where each one assumes the countdown in the best way he can. Dying is the ultimate Contradiction, and Jostein Gaarder knows it. The protagonist of this new story by the great author is in a particular ...

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A house next to the tragadero, by Mariano Quirós

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The XIII Tusquets Editores de Novela Award 2017 brings us a unique story. The man secluded in nature, or liberated from society in it. A Robinson of whom we will soon want to know his reasons for isolation. The Mute wanders in his particular kingdom of nothingness, of emptiness ...

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The Inner Life of Martin Frost, by Paul Auster

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The Planeta publishing house has launched, through its Booket label, one of those books for those who want to get closer to the world of the writer or for those who dream of being able to dedicate themselves to writing professionally. This is The Inner Life of Martin Frost. I personally prefer the book of Stephen King, While …

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The Dream of Heroes, by Adolfo Bioy Casares

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Fantasy, touched by an author such as Adolfo Bioy Casares, a down-to-earth, existentialist guy, deep in his way of narrating his different detective novels or even science fiction, ends up endowing this specific literary work with a singular nature to halfway between estrangement ...

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The Schopenhauer Cure, by Irvin D. Yalom

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Not long ago I was referring to another book about the supposed last hours of a character facing a terminal illness. It was The Rest of His Days, by Jean Paul Didierlaurent. It comes to mention citing him to present this new book as the same concept narrated in an antagonistic way. ...

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4 3 2 1, by Paul Auster

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The return of a cult author such as Paul Auster always arouses enormous expectations in the most demanding fans of literature worldwide. The unique title refers to the four possible lives that the character in the novel may have gone through. And of course, for so much life ...

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