there were seven years John Irving unpublished, eternity for its most devoted readers. Now he returns with a tale of love, sex and politics called ‘The Last Chairlift’ (Tusquets), set in 1940s Aspen, Colorado. After ‘La cucaracha’, the satire about Brexit and the Europe of populism, Ian McEwan He publishes ‘Lecciones’ (Anagrama), the story of a man affected by a past traumatic event with his piano teacher. Pulitzer Prize Winner Jennifer Egan In his highly anticipated new novel ‘La casa de caramel’, which is about the bowels of the digital world, he deals with the subject of ‘Low Time’. And they’re starting a course with a new book under their arms. Antonio Munoz Molina ‘I will not see you die’ (Seix Barral) and Virginia Despentes With ‘Dear scumbag’ (Random House), a novel about cancellation and how to get off drugs.
Diaries, memoirs and biographies
to read annie ernauxIt is to read with uncompromising, radical and stern clarity his life experience, the last Nobel Prize in Literature. Her usual publisher, Cabaret Voltaire, will publish two new books for the Frenchwoman this fall: ‘The Other Girl’ is about her sister she never knew, who died of diphtheria at the age of six, and ‘Writing Like Her’ knife describes her relationship with her parents and literature. There is also a kind of commemoration in the letters he sends to her. John LeCarre To other authors such as John Cheever, Philip Roth, Ian McEwan or William Burroughs and the book that Planet has put together under the title ‘A private spy’. This Monday, Libros del Asteroide publishes ‘The Biography of Fire,’ their ultra-confessional stories. Charlotte Gurt He wrote it during their divorce. And Random House will publish the notebooks written by Nobel in a very special format called ‘Memoirs of the Far Mountains’. Orhan Pamuk For over ten years she has been writing and drawing daily about her daily life.
memories and confessions
More memories for every taste: of Britney SpearsImprisoned in her father’s tutelage castle for 15 years, the princess of pop holds the title of ‘The woman I am’ (Plaza) and promises to be the most liberating (book, announcement to sailors, published before its last edition of divorce). Blackie Books will publish Jarvis Cocker’sThe leader of the legendary group Pulp offers a very exciting title for music lovers: ‘Good Pop, Bad Pop’. Anagrama ends broadcast of ‘Diarios’ Rafael Chirbes With the third volume he wrote between 2007 and 2015, when the author of ‘Crematorium’ was booming in his career. Donna Leon He is also encouraged to narrate his life in ‘Una historia propia’ (Seix Barral). Family and closest environment Jesus Quintero We have prepared ‘The Memory of Silence’ (Themes of the Day) to describe the figure of El loco de la colina, who died last October.
love for the classics
Next October, Alianza will open an Authors Library dedicated to writers. Robert Graves It has three titles: the classic ‘I, Claudio’, ‘Daughter of Homer’ (an alternative version of ‘Odyssey’) and ‘El conde Belisario’, which chronicles the turbulent reign of Justinian. Also coming in October ‘quixote’ An edition in Blackie Books’ ‘Clásicos liberados’ collection with illustrations, notes and texts about the great classic by Luis García Montero, Irene Vallejo, Bolaño, Nabokov, Muñoz Molina and Harold Bloom. cervantes. And in ‘The legend of the gentle tides’ (Siruela), Vallejo dives into one of the stories told in Ovid’s ‘Transformation’, in a volume illustrated by Lina Vila.
PSOE nude
Coincidentally or not, there are two biographical novelties this fall about the two great men of the Spanish Socialist Workers Party. Journalist Gregory Moran In ‘Felipe González’ dares the person who was head of government from 1982 to 1996. Billiards player’ (Roca) and La Esfera de los Libros publish ‘La Rosa y las Espinas’; Alfonso Guerra He’s honest about the intricacies of the transition, the drafting of the Constitution, 23F, PSOE’s historic victory in 1982, and one of his greatest passions, theater.
Commemorating Salvador Allende
This 9/11 marks the 50th anniversary of the military coup he led. Pinochet There are many books that examine in depth the event that ended the life of Salvador Allende in 1973 and this historical period that left its mark on Latin American geopolitics in the second half of the 20th century. Mario Amoros He wrote ‘Salvador Allende (Captain Swing), which aims to be the complete biography of the Chilean president, and there are other titles such as ‘Allende and the museum of suicide’ (Galaxia). ariel dorfman‘Allende’ and ‘Allende, who were cultural advisers for three years of the presidential government. A five-act novel’ (Edition B) Carlos TrombenA portrait of the era when names like Che Guevara, Michel Foucault and Jacques Derrida paraded.
first outs
The debut is fertile ground for enthusiasm and literary fireworks, and that’s what the reader will find in “I’m a Fan” (Alpha Decay). Sheena Patelis an addictive and highly inappropriate novel about an intelligent young woman who becomes obsessed with a strong old man who twists her into disregard. Founder of El Mundo Today Xavi Puig He also makes his fiction debut with ‘The Best Person’ (Today’s Issues), a novel about insanity in which the protagonist is a socially excluded person. Nor should we lose track of ‘La Conejera’ published by Sexto Piso. Tess Gunty (Indiana, 1993) is the youngest National Book Award winner since Philip Roth for his story of the collapse of Vacca Vale, an industrial city in the Midwest, and ultimately of an entire country.
Best sellers
Best-selling living author (recently crossed the billion mark), Danielle SteelIt returns to bookstores with ‘La aventura’ (Plaza y Janés). King of suspense and fear, Stephen King, publishes a novel that its readers are eagerly waiting for: ‘Holly’ (Plaza), starring Holly Gibney from the Bill Hodges trilogy, ‘The Visitor’ book and the ‘Blood Rules’ story. New John Grisham‘The Boys from Biloxi’ is about the beginning of the mafia in the southern United States in the 60s. Also in the highly anticipated ‘The Armor of Light’ Ken Follett: The fifth volume of ‘Pillars of the World’ returns to Kingsbridge, this time with the Napoleonic wars and the industrial revolution in the background.
Understand Russia
Ismail Kadare The chapter ‘Three minutes: On the mystery of Stalin’s call to Pasternak’ (Alliance) recalls a legendary event from the Stalinist era: the telephone conversation between Stalin and Boris Pasternak in June 1934. in the Soviet Union and Eastern Bloc countries. Pilar BoneA reporter in Moscow for 34 years, he explores the origins of the Russian occupation in the ‘Shipwreck Empire’ (Galaxia Gutenberg) and Bernard Wasserstein He dives into Krakovets, 60 kilometers west of Lviv, where his family came from, to tell the history of Ukraine in ‘A Town in Ukraine (Galaxia). ‘Memoirs of an Actress in the Gulag’ (Periférica) recounts her experiences Tamara PetkevichHis statement was not published in Russia until 1993.
patriotic bestsellers
Among the most anticipated innovations of the ‘tenant’ new carmen breakThe pseudonym that Jorge Díaz, Agustín Martínez and Antonio Mercero hide behind. His new film is once again of historical nature, titled ‘Hell’ (Planet) and is a part of World War II. It takes place in the Elizabethan era. Other bestsellers that start the course with the novelty: Column Eyre ‘On Love and War’ (Planet), with ‘How I Didn’t Write Our History’ (Sum) Elizabeth Benavent And Santiago PosteguilloEdiciones B presents ‘Maldita Roma’, the second part of the epic dedicated to Julius Caesar. For the sequel to ‘Everything Is Burning’ Juan Gomez-Jurado We’ll have to wait until October when ‘Todo vuelva’ hits bookstores.
Nobels
related to Vargas Llosa The ‘rental’ harvest, according to Abdulrazak Gurnah, is ‘I dedicate my silence’ (Alfaguara), which Peruvian travels to his home country at the hands of Creole music expert Toño Azpilicueta; ‘The fugitive’ Abdulrazak Gurnah It dives into a forbidden love story set in colonial Africa in 1899. JMG Le Clezio is publishing ‘Love in France’ (Lumen), eight love stories starring young people.
unpublished
An unpublished novel last April Manuel Vazquez Montalban That the author of ‘Galíndez’ put in the drawer and never told anyone about it. It will be published this fall along with other unpublished works such as ‘El hombre de la guerra’ (Tusquets) by Navona. Ramiro Pinilla or ‘A New Life’ (Alfaguara), a volume compiling everything that has not been published in Spanish since. Lucia BerlinBringing together 15 stories edited by his son Jeff Berlin that are not included in the ‘Handbook for Cleaning Women’. There will also be unpublished poems. Anthony Gala In ‘Poems of Desperation’ (Planet).