News for May. Selection of black novel, travel and comic

A new month of may y new arrivals ready. This is one selection of 5 titles where there are trips through the extinct USSR and in trains of comic, very dark escapes to Galicia and France, to Monet's town, and fraternal reunions very intriguing in the Norwegian moors. Let's see.

Black water lilies - Michel Bussi

Already in bookstores

michel bussi is a professor at the University of Rouen and this was his second novel, which today is a classic of the genre in the Gallic country, was the best-selling black title of 2011 and won many awards. Its success has already spread to more than 30 countries as well.

It is set in Giverny, Monet's village, and its inhabitants have much to hide. It happens in thirteen days, starts with one murder and ends with another. The corpse of Jérôme Morval, a man as passionate about art as he is about women, appears in a stream and in his pocket they find a postcard of Monet's Water Lilies with the words: "Eleven years, congratulations!" And from there the dramas will intersect.

The Secret Life of Úrsula Bas - Arantxa Portabales

May 6

Arantza Portabales has been considered the new great lady of the national crime novel, although she thinks it is an exaggeration. But the point is that Red beauty, his previous novel, was and continues to be a success. In it he introduced us to the police Santiago Abad and Ana Barroso, a charismatic couple who handled a case a la Agatha Christie and with a magnificent background of characters. Now he returns with this second title and the same protagonists.

This time they will have to investigate the disappearance of Úrsula Bas, a successful writer, who leads an apparently normal life in Santiago de Compostela. Her husband, Lois Castro, will go to report him to the police. Úrsula has been kidnapped and she knows that sooner or later they could kill her.

El reino - Jo Nesbø

Not a year without a novel by Jo Nesbø (and not missing). The past was two: Blood in the snow y Blood sun, short and baptized as the saga of Assassins of Oslo. And now comes this new title where we find the classic story of a brotherly reunion. It is written in the first person and with only 50 pages read and knowing the Nesbø cloth, it has already removed my guts and put several flies behind my ear.

The protagonists are Roy, a lonely man who lives in an old mansion in the mountains, away from everyone. He is an expert on birds and runs the town gas station and everyone else is gossiping about him. Then come back Carl, his little brother, whom he has not seen since he went to study in the United States fifteen years ago, after the tragic death of his parents in a car accident. He is accompanied by his brand new wife, Shannon, an enigmatic architect. They both intend to build a great hotel in the old family lands, which in addition to making them rich would also bring prosperity to the area.

But in the small towns everyone knows each other and knows about certain episodes of the past they have not yet forgotten.

Snowbreaker - TermJean marc rochette and Bjamin Legrand

May 28

Second part and conclusion of this cult comic book which was made into a movie in 2013 by the director of Parasites and that has recently been adapted into a television series by Netflix. It's about the translation of the book Le Transperceneige 4. Terminus, published in 2015, which belongs to the series Snowbreaker.

The Snowbreaker, after decades of aimless travel across the frozen planet, has already is not in a position to continue traveling. Its passengers - humanity that has survived - have to abandon the train in search of a new refuge. There are risks, but they assume they will do better. Or not…

The last summer of the USSR - Sara Gutiérrez (with illustrations by Pedro Arjona)

Sara Gutiérrez She is a doctor, a Russian translator, writer and journalist.

In this 2021 in December they will be fulfilled 30 years after the signing of the end of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics forced by the presidents of many of those republics and headed by Mikhail Gorbachev. It was in the summer of 1991 when the author, which was not entirely alien to that fact, took a trip that took her from Kharkov (Ukraine), where I was studying ophthalmology, to cross the country, from the Baltic Sea to the Black Sea. And it occurred to him to tell about it in this book in which he captured not only snippets of the daily life of the last two years of the USSR, but also of the first five years of the independent life of the republics, which he also spent there.

He gives the letters illustrations Pedro Arjona, graphic designer, illustrator and painter. It became known as comic artist with the collective El Cubri, which during the seventies and eighties renewed the comic with a work characterized by its graphic radicalism.


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