May. And we are as we are, but it seems that a little better. Also for him publishing market that, despite everything, has continued working. So seeing some light shine at the end of this fateful tunnel, there they go 5 titles chosen whose launch is scheduled for this month. We hope that this is the case and, above all, that we can go to the bookstores for them.
The babe - Carmen Mola
Planned for May 28, we have the third title by Carmen Mola, the latest phenomenon of the patria noir novel, and whose identity remains an enigma. And this installment starring Elena Blanco they sell it to us as yet more violent and shocking.
The plot revolves around Czech, the member of the BAC (Case Analysis Brigade) who now assumes command and who disappear after spending the night of the Chinese New Year with a stranger. When his companions get to look for itThey will also be helped by Elena Blanco, who left the police after the previous case of the Purple Network. And the investigation will lead them to to discover that there are many more secrets behind that disappearance.
Pandemic — Slavoj Žižek
Planned for May 20This test by the philosopher, sociologist and political activist Slavoj Žižek is one of the great novelties of its kind. Žižek is one of the most prestigious and followed essayists of the present time, and has already signed more than 40 books of philosophy and cinema or psychoanalysis. Y all benefits of this book will be destined to the NGO Doctors without borders.
In this he proposes a reflexión of urgency on the coronavirus crisis that devastates the whole world. Reflections on what relationship has with the political, economy, fear own and general and liberties or, rather, the non-freedoms imposed.
It also leads us to think about the connection between expansion global pandemic and economic model of modern societies. And mainly it raises the question of how we can change not only our livesBut the whole model of society built on values that have so easily faltered in a few months.
Blood in the snow - Jo Nesbø
Also for him May 28 the latest from the Norwegian crime novel master is scheduled to launch. East Blood in the snow is a independent title to the well-known series of Commissioner Harry Hole. Much shorter and with a protagonist, Olaf Johanssen, what is a hitman paid, a antihero who tells us his story in the first person.
Etty Hillesum's diary. A shocked life
Its launch is scheduled for May 4.
Etty Hillesum belonged to the Jewish bourgeoisie from Amsterdam and she and her family died in Auschwitz in 1943. Their Letters. The particularity of testimony that Etty Hillesum left in this diary lies in her human and transcendental value that are well worth remembering in this year of the 75th anniversary of the end of the Second World War.
Sinful - Carmen Roman
Roman is a journalist long-standing in South Canal and in other media. In this book collects the portraits of some women in history, marked by the stigma of alleged sins committed and confused with their wishes to be free or simply from sobrevivir in the only ways they could or had within their reach.
Thus we have names like those of Phryne, one of the most beautiful ladies of Ancient Greece or Sicilla, the most famous prostitute in Rome. Also from there, he tells us about Julia, the daughter of Emperor Augustus, Agrippina or Messalina, the wife of Emperor Claudius. Or those of Maria Magdalena, Madame Pompadour, our Bella Otero or the actress Joan Crawford, who fled her home and tried her luck in the show, but was arrested for prostitution.
Sources: UDL distributions, Casa del Libro, I like to read, Editorial Anagrama