Arrives July, the summer months par excellence arrive, leisure time on the beach, mountains, swimming pools and nature. And you can not miss a good book. This is one selection of 6 novelties to take a look at them.
a perfect lie —Jo Spain
Jo Spain is a Irish writer and screenwriter, trained in journalism. This novel is the first published in Spain and tells us the apparent idyllic life of six families residing in the exclusive Withered Vale development. When he appears corpse of a woman from house number four, there is a commotion, though they hadn't cared before when it suddenly disappeared three months ago. So when the police start asking questions, so do the secrets. interests and motives that they all have to have wished for his death.
The mask of Prometheus — Jairo Junciel
Jairo Junciel is the Albert Jovell Award winner novel and also planet finalist and in this novel mixes adventure and science fiction. The stars Daniel, a young man who lives in Compostela in the middle of the nineteenth century and that he inadvertently ends the life of his cousin, so he must flee so as not to be sentenced to death. He arrives at the mansion of a rich old man named Waterfall who has organized a philanthropic expedition to return to the world a part of what he has given. Daniel becomes part of a group of mathematicians, biologists and linguists who have also suffered great personal tragedies. But as the journey begins, Daniel receives a shot that puts his life in danger and the scientists decide to put an object on him to heal him: the Prometheus mask, a mask that is incomplete but heals Daniel. This is how the true reason for the expedition is discovered: to put it back together so that it can heal, enlighten, resurrect and give eternal life.
remind me why i love you — Natalia Junquera
Natalia Junquera is journalist of The country and debuted in fiction with a novel set in Galicia. The stars Lola, who lives in Milagros, one of those villages where men emigrate and women wait. Lola agreed with her husband, Manuel, who would spend three years in Argentina, but after a couple of visits, he stops showing signs of life. While the rest of the neighbors return from America, Lola keeps her life in suspense, looking for justifications for the lack of news from Manuel. Her main support is Paul, his brother-in-law, who secretly writes every night to the woman who wakes up every day wishing for someone else's letter. When twenty years later Manuel returns, everything will be turned upside down in a village that seemed calm but is full of secrets.
land of shadows —Elizabeth Kostova
Elizabeth Kostova is an American of Slovak descent. She presents this new novel where the protagonist, Alexandra Boyd, travel to Sofia hoping that starting a new life there will ease the pain of losing her brother. Shortly after arriving she helps an elderly couple into a taxi and accidentally keeps one of her bags. Inside is a wooden box with a urn with ashes and a name: Stoyan Lazarov. Alexandra will undertake a trip through Bulgaria to locate the family of Stoyan Lazarov, but he does not suspect that he will have to face unexpected dangers and discover the secrets of a highly talented musician whose life was cut short by political repression.
letters to daughter —Madame de Sevigne
A classic for these dates could be the letters that Madame de Sévigné wrote to the Countess of Grignan, her daughter, and that are in the summit of epistolary literatureespecially love literature. The Marquise de Sévigné, the widow of a hustler, pours a complex and yearning filial love into her newlywed daughter, until she discovers that she loves her more than God.
De Sévigné was a leading figure at the court of Louis XIV, a close friend of Madame de La Fayette and François de La Rochefoucauld, and in her letters her intelligence, her irony, her taunts and her fresh style shine. Of the more than a thousand letters that are preserved from her, the writer Laura Freixas has selected and translated those where modernity and style stands out the most.
The lost ring. Five investigations of Rocco Schiavone — Antonio Mancini
Great news for lovers (among whom I count myself) of the most irreverent and singular deputy police chief of Aosta, RoccoSchiavone, the charismatic protagonist of the Roman writer Antonio Manzini. Are 5 independent stories that begin with that of an unidentified corpse found spread out over a woman's coffin, with a wedding ring as the only clue. The following stories are a mountain excursion of three friends that ends with a death, a fraudulent football match between lawmen, a crime in a train compartment and the murder of an innocent hermit. Schiavone will have to take charge of all the cases with his particular methods and character.