List of books from 2011

image

One might think that hanging the 2011 book list is a very typical option. But really, it is a way of reviewing the books that have really impacted the most throughout the year.

In this list we have everything: family sagas, ironic criticisms of contemporary society and art, violence and drug trafficking, prostitute mothers and many imaginaries or Nordic beauty and harshness.

Here are the most outstanding books published in 2011:

- "The map and the territory", by Michel Houellebecq. Novel with which the controversial and rebellious French writer won the Goncourt prize and the book that has obtained the best reviews and sales of this year. The narrative is a whip against many of the myths of contemporary society, such as art and new technologies and introduces a very innovative element that is the creation of a character that is the writer himself, Michel Houellebecq.

- "1Q84"by Haruki Murakami. It is one of the most ambitious works by the Japanese author and one of the books of the year that has arrived in Spain in two volumes, in which the poet's poetic writing returns to dreamlike atmospheres, plots on the border of reality and dreams and isolated characters, in this case located in Japan in 1984.

-"Crushes", by Javier Marías. One of the main books of this year. In this novel, which is going to be translated into twenty languages, the writer explores the dark side of this" so desirable "state that infatuation tends to be, but also it can lead to the most heinous acts.

- "The sound of the things when they fall", by Juan Gabriel Vásquez, winner of the 2011 Alfaguara Prize. In this novel, the Colombian writer, who grew up in Bogotá amidst drug-trafficking violence, curfews, and murders of politicians, reflects on fear and on the anxiety that comes from living in a vulnerable and threatened society.

- "My parents' spirits keep rising in the rain", by Patricio Pron. The Argentine writer makes the leap to the international literary scene with this novel, which has been contracted by eight countries, including the United States, France, Germany and Great Britain. In the book, the most personal, Pron he goes back to the Argentine dictatorship (1976-1983) to rescue painful episodes from his parents' past.

- "Hammerstein or tenacity", by Hans Magnus Enzensberger. The German writer, one of the most influential European intellectuals, reflects in this book, halfway between the novel and the biography, on Nazism, and does so through the figure of Baron Kurt von Hammerstein , head of the High Command of the German Army at the time of Hitler's rise to power, an elevation to which he opposed at all times.

- "The sky is half done"by Tomas Tranströmer. Sweden's most important living poet received the Nobel Prize for Literature this year, an award that has rediscovered one of the most exciting and intense poets of today. In this book, which is an anthology of his poetry, shows the passionate and harsh nature, in equal parts, of northern Europe and the complexity of human beings with their dreams.

- "Purge", by Sofi Oksanen. She arrived in Spain this year full of anticipation, since it was the most praised novel at the 2010 Frankfurt Fair. The book recounts the traces left in Estonia by the Nazis and later by the Soviet Communists. All this in middle of a thriller with the mafia of sexual exploitation in between.

- "Complete stories", by Guy de Maupassant. The publication, for the first time in Spain, of the" Complete Tales "by the French Guy de Maupassant, translated and edited by Mauro Armiño, constitutes an excellent opportunity to enter the narrative universe of those who masterfully reflected in his stories the society of his time, from the most humble strata to the halls of high society.


Be the first to comment

Leave a Comment

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked with *

*

*

  1. Responsible for the data: Miguel Ángel Gatón
  2. Purpose of the data: Control SPAM, comment management.
  3. Legitimation: Your consent
  4. Communication of the data: The data will not be communicated to third parties except by legal obligation.
  5. Data storage: Database hosted by Occentus Networks (EU)
  6. Rights: At any time you can limit, recover and delete your information.