Again April, the month we can call from the books. And as every month we also get interesting proposals Reading. These are 6 of my selection: the new titles of genres and names as varied as those of Fernando Aramburu, Clara Sánchez, Catherine O'Connell, Petros Márkaris, Enrique Vila-Matas or Néstor F. Marqués. Let's see what they bring us.
The silent lover - Clara Sanchez
The winner of Nadal prize Novel in 2010 by What hides your name, and the Planet Award en 2013 with The sky has returnedNow get out this new book.
The protagonist is Isabel, a woman who works in the Association of Dependent Victims and who receives a peculiar proposal: to go to Mombasa, an area of Kenya, to locate and rescue to a young man named Ezekiel, whom he has abducted a sect, the Humanitarian Order, which hides shady issues.
Isabel accepts because she still feels the guilt for him suicide his brother's that he was the victim of another sect and that she could not help. In Mombasa get infiltrate the orderbut their leader, a man named
Maine, in good manners and supposedly kind character, he is suspicious of her.
One day Ezekiel disappears and Isabel decides to ask helps desperate. Get in touch with Said, a mysterious man who always appears at the most appropriate time and who had promised to take care of her. Both will try to discover and uncover what the sect and its leader hides.
Fake news from ancient Rome -
Marqués González is the author of A year in Ancient Rome and now it comes back with this new title. The fashionable expression is now applied to the Roman world in this book that reveals the deceptions, hoaxes and lies who have told us about the history of the Ancient Rome.
From those who have created, sometimes unintentionally, their own historians, or those that have been formed by the passage of time. Also limmortalized in movies, series and novels, and even those who own romans they created about themselves. Because maybe Nero didn't set Rome on fire ...
University for assassins - Petros Markaris
Markaris is back, so come back Jars. The veteran Hellenic writer dispatches the umpteenth novel of this policeman as veteran as he is.
This time Kostas Jaritos has been vacation in their land, in northern Greece. Upon returning, he finds the news that the director Guikas retires, so your place will be vacant for the time being. But Guikas proposes Jaritos so that take your position on an interim basis, in the hope that he will end up being the chosen one.
Just then a minister, a former university professor found dead of Law. Apparently he has eaten a poison cake brought to him by a stranger. And his recognized passion for sweets leads him to that fatal destiny. But the research seems to be more about the university world than the political world. So we will see if Jaritos manages to become the boss if it solves the case.
This insane haze - Enrique Vila-Matas
Vila-Matas is considered one of the best current storytellers. In this novel he makes a reflection on literary creation. It opposes two voices: that of faith in writing and at the same time reluctance and rejection of it. The two can achieve a fusion so that the most authentic originality emerges.
The protagonist is simon schneider, hokusai, un dating dealer for other writers, and he works for a blockbuster author who calls himself Big Bros who lives in hiding in New York. One afternoon Simon is blocked trying to remember a phrase and leaves his refuge in Cadaqués to undertake a long walk in search of that appointment that does not appear.
Deep veins - Fernando Aramburu
Fernando Aramburu is still trying to digest the overwhelming success of Homeland, and now launch this selection of your favorite poetry. Because for him poetry is transporting himself to a safe place, away from the daily noise, a refuge to which you need to go from time to time. So he introduces us to some of his dearest poems who sign names like Rosalía de Castro, Góngora or Vallejo, to name a few. And he also links them to facts from his life experience.
Confidences and betrayals - Catherine O'Connell
This American writer brings out new intrigue novel where the protagonist, Maggie trueheart, he wakes up in his bed next to a stranger the morning after his bachelorette. But the worst is that her friend Angie has been murdered. Then Maggie's occasional lover becomes the prime suspect in the murder.
She wonders whether she should help him by confessing that she spent the night with him or lying to protect her future marriage. While, the police investigate each of her friends and reveals seemingly insignificant secrets. So some of them lie or maybe they all do.