Like a few days ago we were reviewing those books that have starred in 2015, I have also started to take stock of everything I have read during the last twelve months. Some other disappointment (La vorágine, by José Eustasio Rivera) and, also, other readings that I hope you can discover soon.
I'm going to confess my best books of 2015.
Reeds and mud, Vicente Blasco Ibáñez
The truth is that I wanted the most famous author of my land, and the truth is that I was not disappointed. Reeds and mud is all you can ask for in an entertaining book: simplicity, the ability to catch you and a "soap opera" touch throughout this story set in the early XNUMXth century in the lagoons of the Albufera. Highly recommended.
Pedro Páramo, by Juan Rulfo
The most famous book by this Mexican author and forerunner of magical realism Not only has it been a great source of inspiration, but it also allows you to enter those mysterious lands of the Jalisco desert and, specifically, through a desolate town of Comala, among whose streets the spirits and old stories around the character dwell that gives title to the book completely catch you.
The Everyday Nothingness, by Zoe Valdés
I have to confess that at first I was not completely hooked, but throughout reading you discover that this feminist author has the ability to make you laugh and reflect. Valdés is like the particular "Cuban Bridget Jones", which illustrates to you throughout the pages of her first great novel about the precarious situation of the Caribbean island, her love affairs with crazy artists and the old bohemian nights between friends who decided fly in search of a better land.
Sea in the background, by José Luis Sampedro
José Luis Sampedro, author of one of my favorite storybooks, Mar al fondo
A storybook they can never be absent, and in this case, the first (and most satisfactory) of the year came from the hand of Sampedro, author from whom a poetic and timeless narrative emanates. This book includes ten stories with the name of other ten seas and oceans of the world, attending stories such as that of an old stowaway who ends up falling back on a paradise Polynesian island in the South Sea or the monologue of four characters who love and suffer in Land's End. One of my favorite storybooks.
Arabian Nights
I admit, I have not finished it yet, but this is one of those books that deserves a separate mention. I am at least conceiving it in small doses, since that is how I enjoy it better. As a literary matryoshka, the most famous work of Arabic literature it is pure magic, simplicity and also a book full of a more "erotic" streak than I thought. Scheherazade Illustrates us with all those forbidden princesses, ambitious merchants, palaces with secret doors and geniuses who arrive to solve the function. I hope to finish it this 2016 as a literary purpose.
Exiled in the Future, by Ismael Santiago Rubio
Ismael's book is pure science fiction. . . and the good. I discovered it in the Book Fair this year, and days later, I could hardly stop my attention from this story about a man who wakes up in a very different world after lying frozen for over two hundred years. One of those young authors which is really worth reading.
Choose my best books of 2015 It has not been easy, especially when there are so many titles on a shelf that I hope to continue filling in 2016. The next readings? Satanic verses (which I am doubting whether or not to take me to my imminent trip to Africa, I confess) and Lion the African. Pure exoticism, as I like it.
What has been your favorite books of 2015 friends?
Happy new year in advance!
Well, they are not books from 2015 but rather from long before, right?
Some, like Zoe Valdés's, are pure rubbish (from the point of view of writing or literary creativity)