August. Selection of editorial news

August It is the vacation month par excellence and, although it is being another atypical summer, what is not atypical at all is to keep reading. This is one selection of 6 novelties editorials that includes titles such as lo new de Fernando Aramburu o Pilar Navarro and some of the comic more classic and more current, among others. We take a look.

Swifts - Fernando Aramburu

After the phenomenon and international success that was Homeland, Aramburu presents this new novel. The protagonist Toni, a high school teacher angry with the world, who decides to commit suicide just past a year. But until then every night, in his apartment with his dog and a library from which he is shedding, he will write a hard and unbelieving vital chronicle, but not without tenderness and humor. In this chronicle, he will analyze the reason for his decision, his privacy and past, his family and relationships, and the turbulent political news in Spain. Many reasons to leave, but perhaps also to move on.

Like a sigh - Ferzan Ozpetek

Ferzan Ozpetek is an Italian nationalized Turkish film director and screenwriter who also writes. In this novel he introduces us to Giovanna and Sergio, that every Sunday they invite their friends to eat and enjoy a pleasant after-dinner. But one of those Sundays shows up a woman who claims to have lived in that house in the past and want to visit it one more time. Everyone will be fascinated by its story, that of a life that will take them to the suggestive streets of Istanbul and the secret that the walls of their own house keep, a secret capable of changing the lives of both Giovanna and Sergio and their friends.

From nowhere - Julia Navarro

The new by Julia Navarro promises a new success, another one of the many that the writer has. The protagonist is Abir nasr, an adolescent who witnesses the murder of his family during an Israeli army mission in southern Lebanon. So you will swear that will hunt down the guilty for the rest of his life.

At the same time that threat also persecutes Jacob Baudin, one of the soldiers who participated in the action while fulfilling compulsory military service. The son of French parents, he still feels like an emigrant in Israel and tries to reconcile himself with his Jewish identity.

Abir is welcomed by relatives in Paris, where he feels trapped between the suffocating family nucleus and the open society that offers him freedom and that two young people embody: su before purchasing, Noura, who rebels against the impositions of his father's religious fundamentalism, and Mariona teenager of which he falls obsessively in love.

But the lives of Abir and Jacob will cross again years later in Brussels.

Do not look for me - Sara Medina

Sara Medina presents a thriller starring two women: Silvia, an executive who lives in the most luxurious area of ​​Barcelona and who discovers that his son Martí has ​​disappeared. All he has is a message that says, "Don't look for me."

After trying to report the disappearance to the police, Sílvia decides to investigate on her own and manages to contact Moni, ex-girlfriend of Martí, a young woman who traffic in cocaine in order to fulfill his dream: to move to Tonga, an island paradise in the South Seas. She also discovers that she has a reason to find Martí, because he has stolen the last bundle that he kept at home.

The two women, who distrust each other, will have to enter the dangerous Barcelona underworld, with violence and violence. tiger threat, capo of a foreign mafia, like a sword of Damocles on them.

Mouse - Limited Ed 40th Anniversary - Art Spiegelman

In the world of comics or, more specifically that of the graphic novel, Maus is considered by critics as one of the best of history. In addition, he has to his credit one of the prestigious Awards Pulitzer. And fulfills 40 years.

Now this full edition with the original format of two volumes. It also includes a unpublished booklet of sixteen pages designed by the author himself.

Recall that Mouse is the story of a Auschwitz survivor Vladek Spiegelman narrated to his son Art. It is necessary to mention what is surely the most striking aspect of this work: the characters have facial features of animals, which is used for narrative purposes. Thus, Jews are mice and the nazis are cats.

Sweet Tooth: The Return - Jeff Lemire

And from a classic we end up with one of the current titles with the most impact and fame, Sweet Tooth, by the acclaimed author. Jeff lemire and the colorist Jose Villarrubia. The haunting story of Gus, the hybrid child between human and deer, continues on the planet that has long been devastated by a deadly virus. its television adaptation can be seen on Netflix.


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