The Bohemian Astronaut, by Jaroslav Kalfar

bohemian-astronaut-book

Lost in Space. That must be the best situation to do introspection and really discover how tiny the existence is, or the greatness of that very existence that has led you there, to a vast cosmos like nothing dotted with stars. The world is a memory ...

Continue reading

The Night That Didn't Stop Raining, by Laura Castañón

book-the-night-that-did-not-stop-raining

Guilt is that gift with which humans leave Paradise. From childhood we learn to be guilty for many things, until we make her an inseparable life partner. Perhaps we should all receive a letter like the one Valeria Santaclara, the protagonist of this book, receives. With the …

Continue reading

Europe, by Cristina Cerrada

book-europe-cristina-closed

When you experience a war, you don't always escape it by leaving the conflict zone. In the aseptic consideration of this last term, other concepts existed before, such as: house, childhood, home or life ... Heda left her home or conflict zone accompanied by her family. The promise of ...

Continue reading

The beards of the prophet, by Eduardo Mendoza

book-beards-of-the-prophet

It is curious to think of the first approaches to the Bible when we are very young. In a reality still in the making and governed for the most part by childhood fantasies, the scenes of the Bible were assumed to be perfectly true, without any metaphorical sense, nor was it necessary. ...

Continue reading

The other part of the world, by Juan Trejo

book-the-other-part-of-the-world

Choose. Freedom should basically be that. The consequences come later. Nothing heavier than being free to choose your destiny. Mario, the protagonist of this story, made his choice. Career promotion or love are always a good excuse to tip vital choices to one side or ...

Continue reading

The tigress and the acrobat, by Susanna Tamaro

book-The-tigress-and-the-acrobat

I have always liked fables. We all begin to know them in childhood and rediscover them in adulthood. That possible double reading turns out to be just lovely. From The Little Prince to Rebellion on the Farm to bestsellers like Life of Pi. The simple-looking stories in your fantasy ...

Continue reading

Confabulation, by Carlos Del Amor

book-conspiracy

When I started reading this novel I thought I was going to find myself halfway between Chuck Palahniuk's Fight Club and the movie Memento. In a sense, that's where the shots go. Reality, fantasy, reconstruction of reality, the fragility of memory ... But in this ...

Continue reading

The unbearable lightness of being, by Milan Kundera

book-the-unbearable-lightness-of-being

The particular moments or existence in general. Try to achieve dreams or immerse yourself in the magic of the moment. Impossible balances of the mere fact of being. You will never find a novel with philosophical overtones that allows you to access the most sophisticated ideas so lightly, those that plan around the existence of our feelings and our world as an almost inseparable perception.

You can now buy The Unbearable Lightness of Being, the great novel by Milan Kundera, here:

The Unbearable Lightness of Being

The Old Mermaid, by José Luis Sampedro

book-the-old-mermaid

This masterpiece by José Luis Sampedro is a novel that everyone should read at least once in their life, as they say for important things. Each character, starting with the woman who centralizes the novel and who happens to be called under various names ...

Continue reading