Good morning to everybody. This week I want to present you again the May editorial news that will hit bookstores, including reissues, books to reflect on life and some science fiction and fantasy.
"Mendelssohn on the roof" by Jiří Weil
Impedimenta - May 9 - 320 pages
Set in Prague in 1942, "Mendelssohn on the Roof" reflects a satirical look at everyday life in Prague during the Nazi occupation. A story about evil, pain, power, violence and suffering that shows how human beings always find a new way to survive.
"Zero K" by Don DeLillo
Seix Barral - May 10 - 320 pages
In this story there is a center that fights against death in the style of science fiction: freezing the bodies until in the future technology can wake them up. Jeffrey travels there when his father goes to say goodbye to his sick wife in the hope of finding her in the future. When his father, in perfect health, decides to enter this center to accompany his wife, Jeffrey rebels and denies his support.
A story about what it means to be alive and a meditation towards death.
Neal Stephenson's "Cryptonomicon"
Editions B (Nova) - May 11 - 864 pages
Cryptonomicon is the relaunch in a single volume of a work of science fiction that was originally published in three volumes and sold more than one hundred thousand copies.
In this deluxe edition we find the story of Randy Waterhouse, a crypto hacker who teams up with a girl named Amy in order to try to save a sunken Nazi submarine where the key to keeping the Crypt's dream afloat. In this adventure, a great conspiracy as well as an indecipherable code will be uncovered.
"The Lord of Coombe's House" by Frances Hodgson Burnett
Alba Editorial - May 11 - 456 pages
A bleak and inhospitable place in a narrow house on a narrow street but in a posh neighborhood. A girl in a dayroom, a mother they call “Pluma” and a father who has just died. To her rescue comes an enigmatic marquis with a reputation for being wicked who will try to establish the complex relationship between mother and daughter, which is full of secrets and misunderstandings.
«Seveneves. Seven Evas »by Neal Stephenson
Editions B (Nova) - May 11 - 816 pages
Seveneves has been one of the most relevant science fiction titles that were published in the United States during the past year, 2015. In this most ambitious work, Neal Stephenson asks us the following question: what would happen if the end of the world came ? In a new science fiction work, he shows us Earth as a place that is nearing its inevitable end, with the solution of seeking asylum on another planet, leaving a few survivors on Earth.
Five thousand years later, his descendants embark on a journey to a totally transformed alien planet: Earth.
"Silber. The Third Book of Dreams ”by Kerstin Gier
Editions B (Block) - May 11 - 400 pages
This Wednesday the third and last part of the Silber trilogy by German author Kerstin Gier hits bookstores. Silber is a youth fantasy trilogy that combines fantasy and humor with unique and singular characters and a light plot that takes the reader into the fantastic world of dreams and the dangers that it can entail.
Denis Johnson's "The Name of the World"
Random House Literature - May 12 - 144 Pages
In "The Name of the World" he tells us the personal adventure of Michael Reed, a university professor who tries to recover from the death of his wife and daughter in a car accident. Michael Reed, heading towards a personal hell, wanders through the university when he meets a young student who becomes his salvation.
Following other characters of the author, Michael Reed moves in the terrain of paranoia and the loss of the meaning of life, narrated by the author with sharpness but without neglecting a humorous tone in the most macabre subjects.
"The god murdered in the men's service" by Sergio Sánchez Morán
Fantascy - May 12 - 336 Pages
Veronica is a paranormal detective who has just found the corpse of a Greek god in the trunk of her car. To investigate this crime involving a war between factions, Veronica will have to deal with Valkyries, centaurs, vampires, paparazzi, soccer players, ghosts and Irish goblins.
Has anyone caught your interest?
The last one is the one that most attracted my attention.
It caught my attention too, it has a striking title and promises to be a fun read.
A greeting.
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