With the arrival of August, outings in our country skyrocket and, with them, good books to read under the umbrella and in front of an inspiring blue sea. These best books books to read this holidays they become the best proposals to relax and travel to other places through its pages.
The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
After the outcome of a second (and intense) season of The Handmaid's Tale, delve into the literary origin of what is one of the best series of the moment it may be highly recommended. The Hulu series is inspired by the homonymous novel by Canadian writer Margaret Atwood published in 1985 and focused on life in Gilead, a totalitarian state where the few fertile women of the old system are used as sex slaves. Although the book covers only the first season of the series, navigating its pages can become the best alternative when it comes to understanding the potential of this television phenomenon even better.
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My Family and Other Animals, by Gerald Durrell
Zoologist and naturalist, Durrell turned to literature to present us with his famous «corfu trilogy«, Of which this My family and other animals It is the famous and fun of all. Set on the Greek island of Corfu, where the author used to spend the summer every year, the book is an analysis of his crazy family through the youngest of his children, a boy who adores his animals and portrays them as equally valid characters within the work. A soft, light and refreshing book to read on the lounger during these weeks of vacation.
The Disappearance of Stephanie Mailer, by Joël Dicker
One of currently best-selling books It is the latest novel by Dicker, winner of awards such as the Goncourt des Lycéens or the Grand Prize for a Novel of the French Academy. A tremendous thriller that starts in 1994, when a mayor and his family are murdered along with a woman. Two New York police officers, Jesse Rosenberg and Derek Scott, are investigating the case, although a journalist named Stephanie Mailer reveals 20 years later that both investigators were mistaken as the murderer. Days later, the young woman disappears. Thrilling.
The disappearance of Stephanie Mailerit is one of the best books to read this vacation.
Other ways to use your mouth, by Rupi Kaur
Waiting for what the second book of Rupi Kaur, The sun and its flowers, will be published in Spanish at the end of August this year, the holidays can become the best occasion to discover its first release: Other ways to use your mouth. Born on Instagram, this collection of poems becomes a brief but profound journey into the emotions of its author, a Canadian poet of Indian origin who recounts her vision of feminism, family or immigration with extreme sensitivity. Lightweight and ideal for getting away from social media for a few hours.
Ocean Africa, by Xavier Aldekoa
Traveling invites you to travel, and even if you are clear that you are in your 2018 vacation destination, you can always allow yourself to visit other places in the world without leaving the beach. One of the best proposals is this book by Xavier Aldekoa, a journalist who for more than 10 years it has traveled the entire African continent describing its hardships and joys, the contrasts of that great "ocean" where we witness the negotiation of the dowry of a young South African or the famine crusade of the inhabitants of Somalia, two examples of the reality of a place as fascinating as it is ignored.
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The Captain's Daughters, by María Dueñas
The last novel by María Dueñas, The Captain's Daughters, has become one of the last and most successful launches of the Planeta publishing house. A captivating novel set in New York in 1936, when the death of the owner of a Spanish food house, Emilio Arenas, pushes his brave daughters Victoria, Mona and Luz to make their way through a city of skyscrapers so different from the Spain of then.
Stories to understand the world, by Eloy Moreno
Surely many of you travel with children this vacation, more than enough reason to recommend theseStories to understand the world by Eloy Moreno. More than 22 paper editions published behind his back, this set of 38 stories It will make the little ones reflect on premises as simple as they are universal. Ideal for children between 5 and 6 years old, the book also becomes a perfect copy for adults looking to return to childhood and who, especially, prefer to tell stories to their children rather than show them videos on YouTube. Necessary and highly recommended.
Wuthering Heights, by Emily Brontë
In a summer where 200 years since the birth of Emily Brontë, delving into his greatest work, Wuthering Heights, it seems to us the best of pastimes. Set in the unique countryside of Yorkshire, the novel tells of the stormy love between Heathcliff, a young man adopted by the Earnshaws, which has unleashed in him a crude and vindictive personality, and Catherine Earnshaw, the daughter of the Earnshaws. Conceived under a novel structure for the time in the form of matryoshka literary, Wuthering Heights is one of great works of all time despite the misunderstanding it suffered during its publication in 1847.
The call of the tribe, by Mario Vargas Llosa
Vargas Llosa's latest book, published last March, plunges into the mind of the Nobel Prize winner to tell us about all the elements, experiences and influences that made up the particular universe of the author of Pantaleón and the Visitors. Authors like José Ortega y Gasset, Karl Popper or Isaiah Berlin slip into this singular journey through the thought of a Peruvian-Spanish writer disappointed by the political and sociological disasters of his original continent.
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Which of these books to read this vacation would you choose? Do you already have one?