The Muse, by Jessie Burton: A picture hides thousand words.
On a hot July day in 1967, Odelle Bastien climbs the stone steps of the Skelton gallery in London, knowing that her life is about to change forever. Having struggled to find her place in the city since she arrived from Trinidad five years ago, she […]
The Awakening by Kate Chopin: a story of female self-actualization back in the late 19th century.
The Awakening is a novel about a woman’s transformation. From an obedient, traditional wife and mother into a self-realized, sexually liberated and independent woman.
When first published in 1899, The Awakening shocked readers with its honest treatment of female marital infidelity. […]
New Boy: a modern retelling of Othello set in a suburban schoolyard.
Arriving at his fifth school in as many years, a diplomat’s son, Osei Kokote, knows he needs an ally if he is to survive his first day. So he’s lucky to hit it off with Dee, the most popular girl in school. But one student […]
Men without Women by Murakami : «one of the most influential novelist of his generation».
‘I find writing novels a challenge, writing stories a joy. If writing novels is like planting a forest, then writing short stories is more like planting a garden.’
Across seven tales, Haruki Murakami brings his observation to bear on the lives of […]
Honeydew by Edith Pearlman: one of the most essential short-story visionaries of our time.
The stories in «Honeydew» are unmistakably by Pearlman; whole lives in ten pages. They are minutely observant of people. Of their foibles and failings, but also of their moments of kindness and truth.
The characters are dazzling. Somalian women who have suffered circumcision, […]
Leaving the Atocha Station: Luminously original, like a comet from the future! by Ben Lerner.
Nothing is more American than running away to Europe, avoiding your countryfolk, pretending not to be American. Our narrator really hates the would-be expatriate intellectuals «who, when they spoke Spanish, exaggerated the peninsular lisp». And hates them mostly – as will […]
Summertime by J.M Coetzee: compelling, funny, moving and full of life!
«Summertime» és una novel·la publicada a l’any 2009 per l’autor J.M Coetzee, Premi Nobel de Literatura. És la tercera d’una sèrie de memòries novel·lades per l’autor. Detalla la vida d’un noi des de la perspectiva de cinc persones que l’han conegut.
La novel·la és ambientada a […]
The Summer without Men by Siri Hustvedt: discover one of our favourite summer book!
Mia Fredrickson, the tragicomic poet narrator of The Summer Without Men, has been forced to reexamine her own life. One day, out of the blue, after thirty years of marriage, Mia’s husband, a renowned neuroscientist, asks her for a “pause.” This abrupt […]
An intelligent, beautiful and healing read: «Homegoing» by Yaa Gyasi at Linguae Bookshop in Girona.
“Homegoing”—the title is taken from an old African-American belief that death allowed an enslaved person’s spirit to travel back to Africa. It is rooted, like the Bible, in original sin.
A novel of breathtaking sweep and emotional power that traces three hundred […]
«The Sea, The Sea», was Iris Murdoch’s 19th novel. It was also her fourth to make the Booker shortlist.
Naturally, the fact that Murdoch was so often nominated and only triumphant later in her career has been the cause of plenty of speculation. But it’s easy to understand why she so often fell at the last […]
