Winter comes. Those of us who love cold, snow and ice are in luck. I would particularly be happy if winter lasted all year, but since it is not the case, I will settle for enjoying it the more the better. In addition, it puts one of the best environments to read. That couch, that blanket, that hot coffee or chocolate, and a good book. What more could you want?
Well there go those 8 varied proposals for many audiences. From children's literature to classics of classics through romantic, fantasy or drama novels. The fact is that they have winter in their titles. Let's see.
The winter book - Rotraut Susanne Berner
De 2004, this title of 20 pages is aimed at younger readers up to 5 years. Its author was born in Stuttgart and as a graphic designer she received in 1984 the German Prize for Children's and Youth Illustration.
Framed in the magical realism, in this book we walk through a city and its surroundings. At the same time, we follow the little adventures that happen to people and animals on a winter day. Like Andrea, who misses the bus again, or Lena's parrot who goes on an excursion. Although the mystery will be provided by a seemingly ownerless red purse.
The bride and groom of winter - Christelle Dabos
Dabos is a French writer and this is his first book in a fantastic saga full of imagination. Ophelia, the protagonist who wears a worn scarf and has myopic glasses, tHe has very special powers: he can read the past of objects and go through mirrors.
Live quietly in the Ark of Anima and then she gets engaged to Thorn, of the mighty clan of Dragons. The girl must abandon her family and follow him to the Citacielo, the floating capital of the Pole. But Ophélie does not know why she was chosen or why she must hide her true identity.
Beyond winter - Isabel Allende
The renowned writer brings together in this novel a Chilean, a young illegal Guatemalan and a mature American, who survive a terrible snow falling over New York in the dead of winter. They will end up learning that beyond that winter there is room for unexpected love. It is one of the more personal stories de Allende where the reality of emigration and the identity of today's America through those characters who find hope in love and second chances.
Winter on your face - Carla Montero
Posted in 2016, is the latest novel by the Madrid author of The Emerald Tablet and intermix adventure, love and war in the first half of the XNUMXth century.
The stepbrothers Lena and Guillén they live quietly in a mountain village. Both are very close but an unexpected and extraordinary event forces them to separate. Over the years and distance that complicity turns into youthful love fed by a sporadic encounter and hundreds of letters.
The Civil War surprises Lena in Oviedo and Guillén in France. Anguished by her situation, he will make a risky journey through a country ravaged by conflict to meet her. But the war has another destiny prepared for them because Lena is a volunteer nurse for the rebel side and resists in a city besieged by republican forces where Guillén arrives, who is part of those forces that besiege the city. Y his circumstances will be repeated in World War II.
The mermaids of winter - Barbara J. Zitwer
Zitwer is literary agent, film producer and screenwriterto. This is his first novel and revolves around Joey rubin, a young architect and decorator living in New York. Her addiction to work has alienated her from her old friendships and she only feels really close to her dog Tink. But When Joey travels to the English countryside to supervise the renovation of the old mansion where JM Barrie himself wrote Peter Pan, his life will take a turn..
In that small English town he meets the girls from JM Barrie Women's Swimming Club, a group of octogenarians who share a curious passion: bathing every day of the year in the waters of a lake near the town. They are the mermaids of flesh and blood, full of stories and humanity, that will help Joey discover the true meaning of life.
Winter's Tale - Mark Helprin
Helprin was born in New York in 1947. He is a journalist and also the author of essays and works of fiction for adults and children. His great success came in 1983 with this novel that is already part of the great North American tradition. It is a love fable with magical elements, set in the early XNUMXth century in New York.
Peter lake He is a rebellious member of a gang of criminals who one day walks into a mansion hoping to find it empty and get some good loot. But discover to Beverly penn, the daughter of the owners of the house, an eccentric and enigmatic young woman, but condemned to an untimely death. The two fall in love and Peter tries to stop time so that his beloved does not leave him. He is accompanied by a white horse who will be your guardian.
The writer, screenwriter and director Akiva Goldsman performed a film adaptation in 2014 with mixed success.
Winter children - Gilbert Bordes
Posted in 2010, this novel by this French writer is set in the winter 1943. It tells us the story of some guides that have been caught trying evacuate to Spain six children of members of the Resistance. They have hidden their protégés, but they refuse to hand them over and are executed by the SS. However, the children still do not appear. The executioners decide to abandon them and destroy the only pass through which they could return. The six children (children of communists, bourgeois, Jews and Christians) will have to organize, find food and fire, and overcome differences to survive.
Winter's Tale - William Shakespeare
How not to read a classic of classics in this wintry weather? Well we're done with this comedy in five acts, in prose and verse, of the most famous English bard which was probably written in 1611. Drink from the plot of the novel Pandosto or the triumph of time by Robert Greene. The title refers to the genre of fantasy history of the text and has tragic elements, but above all pastoral comedy.