There are as many August as one wants. The de vacation consecrated to the sun, the beach, the sea or the mountains. The de work lonely (or not so much) in the office of the empty and quiet city. The travel that can finally be done. Also they hell or cold on the face. Here, like the title of Eduard Palomares, we do not close in August. We always walk with the key ready and thousands of books and stories to comment on, recommend or discover. These are 6 selected readings. Because there are many August.
War august
The canyons of August - Barbara W. Tuchman
Published in 1962, meant the pulitzer prize for its author in that year and its subsequent consideration as a classic of its kind. Also from must read for fans of that turbulent and black time of the Great War. A reconstruction of the dramatic panorama, psychological tension, uncertainty and bewilderment of the intense month of August 1914, when the first guns of the prelude to the First World War.
August customs and family
Light of august - William Faulkner
One of the most representative works of this now classic American writer. Some of the most memorable characters he created appear like the candid yet fearless Lena Grove, in search of the father of her child. OR Reverend Gal Hightower, haunted by his constant visions of Confederate cavalrymen. Y Joe christmas, a mysterious vagabond also haunted by the racial origins of his ancestors.
With this novel Faulkner became one of the most recognizable chroniclers of his time.
August - Tracy Letts
We do not move from the United States in this portrait of a dysfunctional family from deep America at its worst. His narrative assets abound with wit, acidity, irony and tragedy, as well as a lot of black humor.
The Westons They are a family that, after the disappearance of their patriarch, meets one hot summer night. There they will not be long arise all the conflicts and repressed feelings for years, past and present, and between secrets and half-truths.
It was also Pulitzer Prize for Theater in 2008, and a few years ago the Film adaptation who star in Julia Roberts, Meryl Streep and Ewan McGregor.
Black august
We do not close in August - Eduard Palomares
Palomares took up the witness of the Barcelona black genre to adapt it to the XNUMXst century of garbage contracts, sky-high rentals, mass tourism and other social pests. And he uses a crime as an excuse for the portrait of that Barcelona so changed.
The protagonist is Jordi Viassolo, a temporary and poorly paid intern at a detective agency. Actually, you just have to take care of keeping the office open during the summer without getting into trouble. But then a desperate client appears assuring that his wife has disappeared. And Viassolo, shy and inexperienced, sees his opportunity before a supposedly easy investigation. But it is only supposedly.
Three days in august - Jordi Sierra i Fabra
And we continue in Barcelona with him seventh case in the series of inspector Miquel Mascarell, where you will have three days to solve a mystery that has lasted for twelve years and is related to the 1938 bombings in the city. We are in 1950 and Mascarell, when Patro Quintana disappears, his wife, receives a note asking him to in three days he must solve a case that he left unfinished in 38 or she will die. But also, in full investigation, you will discover something that is going to change your life.
August burning - Andrea Camilleri
Camilleri just passed away and this reading can be a good tribute to your figure. Its about tenth case of its commissioner Montalbano, which takes place under suffocating heat. Montalbano is waiting for Livia's arrival, who comes with some friends to spend the holidays in a lonely little house in front of the beach. But everything goes wrong when, in the basement of the house, a trunk appears with a corpse inside.