I know what you like literary news, especially narrative, so I thought it appropriate that you might be interested in this article where I gather some Literary news from Planeta de Libros. There are real gems, so I hope you like it. I leave you with a title and summary of each one.
"Those who dream" (Elio Quiroga)
Publication date: 06/10/2015
560 pages
Spanish Language
ISBN: 978-84-450-0279-7
Presentation: Hardcover with dust jacket
Collection: Minotauro Award
Synopsis
Dante lives in a house in the country, surrounded by forests and idyllic nature, in a place where everything appears to be placid and orderly. But nothing is what it seems in his life, which will enter an irreversible vortex when he finds himself in the middle of a wasteland. Dante will think he has lost his mind. But the reality is much more terrible: Dante is not Dante, although in reality he is. And you have a lot of outstanding bills to settle
Thus, we will meet characters such as Caín Gray, an old friend of Dante, or Boss Pérez, a king of the underworld who has left his humanity behind, and especially Lara, the woman who loves Dante but whom he does not. may love. And finally to Dana, who has been dead for several years, although not totally.
Around Dante, Lara and Dana, the entire world is collapsing in an endless, cruel and blind guerilla war, and much of humanity has chosen to commit suicide… to live forever.
And Dante ...
Dante is to blame for everything that is happening.
"Two years, eight months and twenty-eight nights" (Salma Rushdie)
Publication date: 06/10/2015
400 pages
Spanish Language
ISBN: 978-84-322-2521-5
Presentation: Rustic with flaps
Collection: Formentor Library
Translator: Javier Calvo
Synopsis
This is a fascinating novel that mixes history, mythology and eternal love, a great narrative that shows the monsters that are released when reason surrenders and fanaticism reigns.
In the near future, after a great storm, the Age of Strangeness begins. A gardener discovers that his feet no longer touch the ground. A cartoonist becomes a superhero. A baby identifies the unclean by marking the corrupt with skin rashes. They do not know that they are descended from some magical and whimsical creatures known as jinn. His world was separated from ours by a veil. Now this veil has been broken and the chosen ones will have to fight in a battle between the light and the dark that will last two years, eight months and twenty-eight nights, that is to say, a thousand nights and one more.
Salman Rushdie has written a masterpiece, a modern tale about the great conflicts of mankind, and a timeless testimony to the power of stories. After dazzling millions of readers with The Satanic Verses and Sons of Midnight, Rushdie returns with a brilliant novel that confirms his privileged place on the altar of world literature.
"The Strait of the Wolf" (Olivier Truck)
Publication date: 06/10/2015
480 pages
Spanish Language
ISBN: 978-84-233-4993-7
Presentation: Rustic with flaps
Collection: Áncora & Delfín
Translator: Joan Riambau Möller
Synopsis
In a small town in the far north of Lapland, the death of a reindeer herder in full transhumance unearths a series of dark oil interests that will change, forever, the destiny of its inhabitants. Klemet Nango and Nina Nansen take over an investigation that turns into a media event when the town's mayor is found dead at a site sacred to the local Sami ethnic minority. Revenges, economic interests, centuries-old race disputes and a dizzying pace go hand in hand in a thriller that travels the remote corners of the Arctic Circle.
"Dog Days" (Gilles Legardinier)
Publication date: 06/10/2015
400 pages
Spanish Language
ISBN: 978-84-08-14654-4
Presentation: Rustic with flaps
Collection: Planet International
Translator: Juan Camargo
Synopsis
Tired of living in a world in which he cannot find his place, and saddened by the loss of his closest loved ones, the extremely wealthy Andrew Blake decides to turn his life around and disappear. Thus, on the day that he is going to be awarded the Award for Industrial Excellence, as a merit of his entire career as an entrepreneur, he leaves his native London and goes to the countryside in France… to work as a butler! When he arrives in Beauvillier, he immediately realizes that the mansion has lost the soul it once had ...
Among its inhabitants are Nathalie, its widowed patron and Odile with strange schedules and demands; a grumbling cook; Manon, a young woman who doesn't know what she wants, and Philippe, the gardener and handyman who lives in the little house in the garden and fights with everyone ... The relationship between everyone is chaos, and is full of misunderstandings and absurd situations, so Andrew has no choice but to try to bring order to this chaotic house… Oh, and befriend Méphisto, Odile's cat!