February brings us many editorial news. This is one selection of 6 titles that sign names in Spanish and predominance of relevant authors of the panorama such as Eva Garcia Saenz de Urturi, Ines Martin Rodrigo (recent winner of the Nadal Award) or Ana Lena Rivera, with his fourth novel that… I have already read. I also highlight Myriam Imedio y Africa Vazquez Beltran. And, finally, an author sneaks in, Daniel Fopiano. We take a look.
The black book of hours — Eva Garcia Saenz de Urturi
2 February
The next novel by the successful writer from Vitoria, winner of the Planeta Prize in 2020 for Aquitaine, and it finally comes out this month. The new story of black cut presents us with a very interesting puzzle.
We are in Vitoria in the present 2022. The former inspector Unai López de Ayala -also know as Creak— receives a call name that will change what you think you know about your family's past: you have one week to find the legendary Black Book of Hours, an exclusive bibliographic jewel. If you don't, your mother, which rests in the cemetery for decades, will die. This is how one starts race against time between Vitoria and the most bibliophile Madrid to try to trace the most important criminal profile he has faced, since he is capable of modifying the past.
The heart of the drowned —Daniel Fopiani
2 February
Cadiz, Marine Corps Sergeant and writer. Fopiani's resume does not look bad at all and includes various awards already in his literary career such as the Valencia Nova of Narrative in 2017 with his novel woodworm, or your finalist position in the Black Cartagena 2020 with The melody of the dark. He also actively writes for Zenda magazine.
This new novel stars the Sergeant Julia Cervantes, also Infante de Marina, and takes place on the island of Alboran, where only a small detachment of the Spanish Navy and a biologist from the Junta de Andalucía live. When in the small graveyard there appears a mutilated head of African origin, surrounded by decapitated seagulls with porcelain doll heads in their place, they will send Sgt. to carry out the investigation.
Julia Cervantes only has to his son Mario and his mother and lives marked by the death of her husband. So during a terrible storm, remain totally incommunicado with the outside and from the public address system of the lighthouse they begin to hear a strange lullaby: “Ten little soldiers went to dinner; one suffocated and nine remained.” From then on, the murders and terror seizes the island. Julia will try to find the guilty that it is not known if he was already on the island or among his own companions.
forms of love — Ines Martin Rodrigo
2 February
Arrives in bookstores recently Nadal Prize for Novel 2022 won by Inés Martín Rodrigo, from Madrid, considered one of the leading cultural journalists in this country.
in the face of the unexpected death of his grandparents Carmen and Tomás, Noray feels that when life stops suddenly, it is time to remember. Unable to overcome the absence of those who taught him the many forms that love has, he locks himself in family home of the town, where he grew up and was happy. There she decides to face the novel that he has been postponing for years: the history of his family, together with that of a country with too much fear of the past, from the civil war to the consolidation of democracy. Typing Noray will evoke the lives of those who made his possible and will face his worst fears and ghosts. But without her knowing, her story will come into the hands of Ismael, the love of his life, who will be reading, in a hospital room, the pages of a story with an ending that can mark their destiny.
The most remote island in the world —Myriam Imedio
3 February
The author says of this novel that «there is a secret project and a race against time to discover the truth. But not only that, there is also an uncontrollable sea with waves that defy the senses, mirrors that do not show reality and a protagonist who will become an animal hungry for answers.
The stars Lisa of Fez, Which is a psychologist who, due to her qualities, was chosen to participate in a secret project that could revolutionize the analysis of the human mind. But that was before a mysterious woman committed suicide in front of her on a bus and her life will change forever. Now she is convinced that the nightmare that he has just started is related to that project, but he will have to prove it. And for that the first thing is to flee.
the silence of berlin — Africa Vazquez Beltran
9 February
Africa Vázquez Beltrán is also known as Africa Ruth and was born in Zaragoza in 1990. He published his first novel at the age of seventeen and today he is already twenty-one edited between Spain and Mexico. He has played all genres in youth and adult literature. Now he presents this new title where he goes to Berlin in 1938. There Ann Weigel she is a young woman maestra aria who is expelled from the school where she works and takes a job as governess in the house of the Hoffmann, with whom his parents broke off friendship after the elections that made Hitler chancellor. While trying to teach sweet little Louise and rebellious Kristin about the Nazi Party doctrine, Ann will face the difficult reunion with his old friends of childhood: Berthold, who is now a Führer's man, and tungsten, sick, irreverent and that represents everything that the Nazis despise.
The Singer Heirs - Ana Lena Rivera
24 February
The last chosen title, which also comes out at the end of the month, touches me closely because I know its author —also was a writer on this blog- Y I have been lucky enough to read it when it was still brewing. So I can now make my recommendation with all of the law.
We have a story narrated in several times whose protagonists belong to one same Asturian family and to which a sewing machine that keeps a secret through those four generations. The first one was Aurora, who was forced to work in the mine after his father's accident and vowed to do whatever it took to get out of that hell. By getting married and getting into a loveless marriage, you receive as wedding gift a Singer second-hand, essential to start getting ahead in another way. But a terrible event It will make the Singer the only proof of the threat that will haunt her all her life. Over the years Aurora will share a complicity very special with his great-granddaughter Alba and the secret will end up being discovered.