These February news They are intended to be a selection of varied readings, of black and historical genres and authors with a long career and success like Jesus Tower Master or debutants like Marta Renato. We also have international names like David Sapphire. We take a look.
February news
The girl with the blue hat - Ana Lena Rivera
1 February
We begin this review of February news with the return of Ana Lena Rivera after his bestseller with The Singer heirs. And again he presents us with a history of women and sewing over time.
We are in the summer of 1929 en Gijón y Manuela, seventeen years old, goes to work as maid in the mansion of the Marquises of Armayor. There he will know arrogance and heartbreak, but he will also learn to sew while making great friend of the only heir of the family, Alexandra. Later, this will be her greatest support when the Civil War forces Manuela to separate from her daughter. Telva, who is sent to Russia along with other children, and also when he tries to get her back decades later.
As long as we're alive —David Safier
7 February
Another novelty for February is this new novel by a German writer accustomed to success. But this time he puts aside the humor that has always characterized him.
Count the love story between Joschi, a Jew Viennese who lost his family in the Holocaust, and Waltrauta young widow from Bremen. He is 20 years older than her and although at first Waltraut rejects him, Joschi shows up at her house with a typewriter under her arm and ready to conquer her, something he ends up achieving. That love will last decades marked by moments of all kinds, from disease or the loss of a daughter to the unbearable weight of the family secrets Joschi.
star trail —Marta Renato
7 February
Doctor in Plant Biology, Marta Renato works in scientific communication and research management and has written numerous popular articles, a play and stories for children and adults. She now debuts with this novel that is set in the Catalan Pyrenees of 1522.
The protagonist is Núria, a ten-year-old orphan whom he takes in Adaledaa healer who lives in a cave so that she is not accused of heresy. Núria soon discovers that she has a special gift for seeking natural remedies and she doesn't want to live isolated there. So when she grows up she goes to Gerona in search of her family and she will end up becoming a young woman with extensive botanical knowledge.
ink and fire - Benito Olmo
14 February
Benito Olmo returns with a new story in which the protagonist is Greta, a reputed busher of rare and valuable books in low hours due to the disappearance of a first edition of Borges that he had to appraise. So he accepts a special assignment to pay the debts incurred and regain the trust of those close to him: find the Fritz-Briones family library.
Her investigations will take her to Berlin, where you will see that the Nazis carried out the biggest book theft in history, but also that someone is murdering bibliophiles, booksellers and collectors from all over the world to try to reconstruct the mythical Library of the Jewish Community of Rome, looted and hidden by the Third Reich.
The Garden of the Vestals — Jesus Maeso de la Torre
14 February
Tower Master He is one of the most acclaimed writers of historical novels we have and in this new title he returns to Rome after the success of Oleum, the oil of the gods. Set in the XNUMXst century BC c.tells us the story of Tulio Vero, the bookseller of Gades known as Graeculus, the Little Greek, for his love of letters.
Son of a noble and rich family with trade and importing books that they then sell in their magnificent bookstore El Cálamo de Hermes, being very young he wants to visit Rome to meet the famous historian. Tito Livio. At the same time, she ends up feeling an impossible love for the Vestal Valeria Domitia. Everything will lead him to make many round trips, adventures and punishments, and to live a life always marked by the love of books.
The cursed countess — Reyes Monforte
22 February
We finish this review of February's news with this new title presented by Reyes Monforte. It takes us to September 1907 when, out of jealousy, Russian translator Nikolai Naumov shoot at him Count Kamarowski in his palace in Venice upon learning that he will marry the woman he secretly loves. With the death of the count, the police investigation will point to his fiancée, the Countess Tarnowska, as the instigator of the crime of passion along with another of her lovers, the lawyer Donato Prilukov.
El judgment which was held three years later was quite a scandal of the time, which shook the foundations of society, revolutionized the press and changed the judicial legal system. The countess was considered the first femme fatale of the 20th century, but was he guilty or innocent?