Marie, a novel mix of genres, travel, black and erotic, published by Ediciones Atlantis.
Marie, by Mariola Díaz-Cano Arévalo, has been finalist for best romantic / erotic novel in the IX Edition of the Atlantis Awards - La Isla de las Letras, that the Atlantis publishing house gave to the works published in 2017.
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Marie: fusion of travel novels, the noir genre and eroticism.
"Eighteen months behind bars is nothing and enough to want to forget even your skin, especially when they played it on you, so the ice and the blizzard were dreamy caresses."
Marie is a travel novel, framed in the erotic romantic genre. In it we find love sex (what is love without sex ...), music y poker games, black touches, dramatic and an ending that may surprise.
In the words of the author herself, Marie
"It is not an easy novel, although it can be read very quickly if one is not prejudiced and likes love stories that are not common."
It's like a road movie with many ingredients where prevails an inner journey of the characters when the love story arises that serves as a common thread to the novel. It is also a story of overcoming, wanting to live and redemption.
And has more influences of the harsh and harsh tone de The last end of creation, by Tim Willocks, than that of a decaffeinated sado, but also with the feeling and intensity by Jane Eyre.
«"Don't kiss me on the mouth, please." You know how much I like you.I had no intention of doing it and she knew it, but I always said it before getting into her bed. It did not matter to me and less on that occasion.
"You're not going to tell me anything, are you?"
"You know not." I just want to fuck.
"The last time we made love."
"We've never made love, Kitty, and no more talking, Okay?».
It is striking that it is written in first person male, and that it is worth the favor of male readers, who identify with the protagonist.
"But neither that day nor yet could I touch her no matter how much, from that morning on, I always wanted her with all my might because I thought that, also always, I would want to sleep with her, fall in love and love her."
Marie is a novel with a woman's name and narrated in the first person by a man.
Synopsis of Marie
1973. El Francés is a player and musician who has just been released from prison. On a visit to a former mentor and friend meet to his niece, Marie Martin. Together they will embark on a journey from the east to the west of the United States. He for a penance and revenge, she to start a new life with her sister.
Long trips by train and car passing through Chicago, Denver or Salt Lake City that will take you to encounters and disagreements with friends, enemies and former lovers. In between, poker games and more bets on illusions to reach their destination that is perhaps a definitive beginning or end.
But what will they really find on that journey and who are they playing the most important game with?
The author:
Mariola Díaz-Cano Arévalo belongs to the vintage manchega from 70 and reader, writer and movie buff by definition and genes. He studied English philology and is spelling and style corrector.
Passionate about genre noir, is also attracted to historical and romantic novel. His reference writers include RL Stevenson, EA Poe, Charles Dickens or Pearl S. Buck, and contemporaries such as Arturo Pérez-Reverte, Víctor del Árbol, Francisco Narla, Fred Vargas, Don Winslow, James Ellroy or Jo Nesbø.
Some readers' opinions on Marie:
«I have read for a long time Marie And since then it hasn't left my head. A small story that hooks you because you get to feel that their characters are real, that you have ever met them and it is impossible for you not to empathize with them. Each page is enjoyed and leaves a mark. What has surprised and amazed me the most has been your ability to get into the male character and describe his purely male instincts. "
"There were three of us in that car. Me from the back seat feeling so many emotions: rage, revenge, passion, loyalty, friendship, disappointment, love, hate, sweetness, regret, fear… When the last stop came, I didn't want to get off. I got out of the car with a pinch in the stomach, I left Marie and the Frenchman to continue their adventure. Thank you for writing as you do ».
"From the beginning, the slum language and the arrogant and quarrelsome personality of the French catch the eye of a story in which the first part is like attending a high-risk climb by two people who are only united by reaching a destination and sharing the journey.