December already. Another year is over. So today touch a little miscellany with a review of what he has given of himself in the literary sphere. I also announce one of my most anticipated new arrivals of 2019 and I comment a couple of anniversaries. All very varied in genres such as black, comics and more contemporary phenomena in literature and cinema such as those of Harry Potter or the saga of Twilight. Those of this year itself have been The Handmaid's Tale and the latest about The truth about the Harry Quebert case or the saga of The discovery of witches. Here we go.
There will be more maids
Margaret Atwood, the famous Canadian writer of The Handmaid's Tale, which is from 1985, he just announced that he is ending his sequel. Its publication is scheduled for 2019 September. It will be titled Testaments and the plot is set 15 years after the last scene of Offred, the main character. The new story will be told again three female characters.
The events that occurred in Gilead, the America imagined by Atwood in this dystopia, whose adaptation as a television series has been a success equal to or greater than the editorial. It has also been social, by becoming a reference of the most vindictive feminism today.
Potter and Cullen have a birthday
The most famous magician and the most vampire ... let's say teenager are on their anniversary. His series have years respectively in literature and cinema. His fans, perhaps not so youthful anymore but always fans, cannot be more in luck.
The wizard of JK Rowlings carry on 20 years with us in Spanish and a special edition of harry potter and the Philosopher's Stone. Actually they are four editions of this first volume dedicated to the four Hogwarts houses: Gryffindor, Hufflepuff, Ravenclaw and Slytherin. They are illustrated by Levi pinfold and contain exclusive material on the history of these famous magical brotherhoods.
And on the other hand Edward Cullen and Bella Swan, the leading couple in the novels of Stephenie Meyer, another publishing phenomenon of those that make an epoch in juvenile literature, meet 10 years with their cinematic faces, those of Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart.
So the producer of the franchise on the big screen has launched a Special Edition commemorating that tenth anniversary that includes the original novel Twilight and a new reformulation of history completed by the author, together with a preface and epilogue.
Witches and vampires
Another saga, this time that of the American writer Deborah Harkness, has just seen the light in its television adaptation this past November. It is also 10 years old since Harkness came up with it. The discovery of witches is the story of witches, vampires and demons of the present looking for a manuscript enchanted and revealing of its origins while making them travel back in time and make you fall in love among them.
Correct series, it lets itself be seen and stars Teresa Palmer and Matthew Goode. It may simply be worth it for sentimental reasons for those of us who know and have lived in that extraordinary and beautiful city of Oxford. The first season of 8 chapters which awaits a second and third of the other titles that make up the trilogy: The shadow of the night y The book of life.
Harry Quebert
Another Harry. This put its creator, the Swiss, on top Joel Dicker, which ate the publishing scene with this story set in three times (1975, 1998 and 2008) about the murder of Nola Kellergan, a fifteen-year-old girl.
Now, the same producer of The Handmaid's Tale has made the adaptation to television directed by the prestigious French director Jean-Jacques Annaud (The bear, The Name of the Rose). It is starred by another no less well-known actor also more than television as it is Patrick Dempsey. They are both also executive producers. And my first impression of what I am wearing is that it is a quite faithful adaptation to the literary original.
Inspector Leo Caldas will return
The Vigo writer Sunday Villar, after a long wait for its readers, publishes the Winners will be announced in March his third installment of the series starring the inspector Leo Caldas. The last ship (whose previous title had been Stone Crosses) comes after nine and twelve years respectively from The beach of the drowned (whose film adaptation was made in 2015) and Water eyes.
The Vigo estuary, that I have visited and has been in my heart for more than twenty years, it will once again be the scene of a new case for the calm inspector so from that land. This time he receives a visit from a man worried about the absence of his daughter, who did not show up for the weekend lunch or attend his class at the Vigo School of Arts and Crafts on Monday.
Playing with John Blacksad
The toughest black kitten in the comic it takes a leap in format and leaves its pages covered in cardboard and sepia colors to get into a console and move. What we lacked ... Handling John Blacksad at the keystroke. East anthropomorphic feline, private detective In the America of the 50s, he is not at all given to being handled except by his Spanish parents, Juanjo Guarnido and Juan Diaz-Canales. But he was asking for it. For being one of the best and most successful comic series in recent years.
Blacksad: Under the Skin is the name of the game that will come out in 2019 thanks to Pendulo Studios. And according to what can be seen, it is a graphic adventure that looks as good and as faithful as its original. Will be available for PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch, PC and Mac.
We are still in the 50s and we are going to New York. There John Blacksad is hired by Sonia Dunn. You will have to find out why her father, owner of a modest boxing club, was found hanged shortly before fight of the year. And also find her star boxer, who disappeared that same night.