September has started in a big way in literary news. Expected titles of important authors will fill the shelves to prepare a autumn of the most interesting. A few months ago I already advanced some of these novelties in the black genre. Today are these that are being presented now or will do so shortly. They are the new of Auster, Marías, Posteguillo, Follett and Skal. Very varied and all interesting.
4 3 2 1 - Paul Auster
The prestigious American writer has just been here to present this new novel. It is already in bookstores since the past 29 August. It is endorsed by the best reviews qualifying it as the best this New Jersey author has written. This is even what he has declared, who has not published anything for 7 years.
Auster tells us the story of Archibald ferguson and its existence of four parallel lives but completely different. This also means four different ways of discovering love, friendship, family, art and even death. All with him fondo of some of the most important events in the United States of the second half of the twentieth century.
Berta Island - Javier Marías
Academician Javier Marías takes up the linguistic background so common in his work to elaborate the love story of Berta Isla and Tomás Nevinson. When they were very young, they both met in Madrid and immediately decide to live together. But they do not suspect that a coexistence of absences and a disappearance. All for the decision made one day after the Crown took an interest in Tomás. Half Spanish and half English, he is gifted with languages and accents and this leads him to study at Oxford.
The seventh circle of hell - Santiago Posteguillo
In 6 days This new work comes out, short for what we are accustomed to, by the famous Valencian writer, author of the well-known Historical trilogies of Scipio and Trajan. There are 250 pages of a test where Posteguillo takes up the history of literature through this subtitle of Cursed writers, forgotten writers.
Again Posteguillo infects us his love for books and authors that, in this title, traverse personal hells or that they surround them with new and more powerful works that surpass them. Among those hells and those who represent them are, for example, the KGB, Nazism, the Inquisition, the wars, the FBI, the hungry, pérdida, the disease, the exile or censorship.
Among writers his hells were, for example, the death of his daughter Josephine to Rudyar kipling that meant a work as vital and recognized as The book of the jungle. But they are many more samples and names that are worth discovering and admiring.
A column of fire - Ken Follett
The next Day 12 the long-awaited last title of one of the most famous sagas of contemporary literature. A column of fire puts an end to the best known historical trilogy of this Welsh writer, with the permission of his trilogy of the century.
There must be very few readers in the world already who haven't read The pillars of the earth o An endless world, more the first than the second surely. So the millions who are passionate readers of this prolific and more than best-selling author will surely run for this ending as well.
We are going to XVI century, to 1558, where on Christmas Eve the young man Ned willard returns home in kingsbridge. But the year 1558 it will be decisive because the queen will ascend to the throne Elizabeth I, with all that it will mean for the history of England and Europe in general.
Something in the Blood: The Secret Biography of Bram Stoker - David J Skal
And for October we have this title for figure lovers of the Irish writer Bram Stoker. A biography, the most extensive to date, signed by the North American author David J Skal. A study also on the more than turbulent end of the Victorian era. Skal has used recently discovered documents such as letters, diaries and stories unpublished by Stoker to compose a profound psychological portrait from the creator of Dracula.