This selection of news for october brings titles for all tastes and audiences and from names as relevant as that of Mario Vargas Llosa, which presents a new novel. But there is also boobs with the last Minotaur Prize, novel black e History. We take a look.
News for October
Daughter of the Border — Asier Moreno Vizuete
October 4
We begin this review of news for October with this novel that has been the winner of the XNUMXth edition of the International Prize for Science Fiction and Fantasy Literature. It's about a grim dark dark and bloody in the style of Joe abercrombie or George RR Martin set in a post apocalyptic world.
The Barony of Arborias It is in civil war after the death of Albredo IV Cadagara has died, while the Border swallows everything. and there it comes ilda, who flees from a past that torments her.
The Ides of January — Javier Negrete
October 11
One Romans It never hurts and with this novel we go to the day when the future general Quintus Sertorius, because around him and his mother Rea the stories of a gallery of very different characters are intertwined.
It is Antiodemis, an actress from Cyprus who wants to conquer the Roman public and, in the process, her personal independence. The protector of her, Servilius Caepio, a vicious nobleman full of debts, which make him one of the most treacherous politicians. There is also the brutal Celtiberian Nuntiusmortis, his escort, or the Greek scholar Artemidorus and his beloved, the ancient prostitute Urania. EITHER Gaius Mario, a rough and honest soldier who dreams of becoming the first man in Rome, Septimuleius, patron of the Lavernos clan, who extorts and terrorizes the Aventine with his group of thieves, murderers and prostitutes, such as Berenice or the girl Serpent.
And, especially, Stigmata, the man with the scars. Gladiator, murderer and lover for hire with a mysterious origin, whose destiny is linked to that of the child about to be born.
No reproaches — Daniel Woodrell
October 11
Originally posted in 1992, this is the last installment of the Swamp Trilogy, starring the Shade family. Black novel in its purest form.
A John X. Shade He has been left by his young wife, who has made off with forty-seven thousand dollars from the gangster Manduca Pumphrey. She has also left her daughter Etta and John does not want to be present when the Manduca discovers him. No money and too old to play billiards with which he made his living, John decides to return to Saint Bruno, the swampy city where twenty years ago he abandoned his first wife and three children.
The summer girl —The blonde neighbor
October 18
The first special edition includes a printed handwritten dedication written by the author, which now brings a rreflection on life and its stages, some beautiful and unforgettable and others more difficult and complicated. And the important thing is to know when to close each one because suddenly maturity arrives.
This is what happens with the protagonist whose friend Lucia gets sick and they try to get over it as always, being united. She, Laux, Sara and Lucía had been the same four inseparable friends, but now life circumstances don't make it easy.
With this title this saga concludes Summer.
Waiting room —Iván de Cristobal
October 16
Another of these novelties for October is this novel where they are also of the protagonists, specifically, two, who are awaiting their destiny in their particular waiting room. And when the clock strikes eleven, their lives will change forever.
Mariona, a young woman medical With strong convictions, she awaits the ruling of a high-profile judicial process that pits science and religion against each other with her as the main defendant. AND Lucia, enterprising middle-aged, disillusioned and back from almost everything, she hopes to convert a mysterious job interview in his last chance to not lose what he has.
I dedicate my silence - Mario Vargas Llosa
October 26
And we finish with these news for October with the new novel by Nobel Prize in Literature Vargas Llosa, whose protagonist is a man who dreamed of a country united by music and went crazy wanting to write a book that tells about it.
Is called Toño Azpilcueta and lives between his job at a school, his family and his great passion, Creole music, about which he has been researching since his youth. Then one day a call changes her life because she receives an invitation to go listen to Lalo Molfino, an unknown but highly talented guitarist, which seems to confirm all his intuitions: the deep love he feels for Peruvian waltzes, marineras, polkas and huainos has a reason beyond the pleasure of listening to them. So Toño decides to investigate more about him.