Historical events or dystopias, family conflicts, loves and misfortunes pass through the pages of these ten remarkable books translated into Spanish that were published in 2020 and that have accompanied readers in the year ending.
“DON’T SAY ANYTHING” by Patrick Radden Keefe.
An award-winning chronicle of the Northern Ireland conflict that begins with an event that took place in December 1972, when several hooded men abducted Jean McConville, a 38-year-old widow with ten dependent children. , in a Catholic neighborhood in Belfast. Everyone felt it was repression from the IRA, but no one dared to say so because of the terror that prevailed in the hottest moment of the conflict.
“Our brothers are waiting for us”, by Amin Maalouf.
Seeking in fiction the hope he does not find in reality, the Lebanese writer tells in this novel a mysterious episode in which the world escapes a disaster and recovers the philosophy of ancient Greece.
“BOYS WITH NOTHING”, by Colson Whitehead.
Based on the shocking true story of a Florida (USA) reformer who worked for more than a century and destroyed the lives of thousands of children, this novel tells the story of Elwood Curtis, a promising black teenager who, in the 1960s, became to the reformer because of a misunderstanding.
“THE COUNTRY KING”, by Andrea Camilleri.
One of the favorite works of the late Camilleri, written entirely in Sicilian as a tribute to the language and its different dialects and which tells how for six days, a humble peasant was king of a small Sicilian town.
“THE FLOWER”, by Mary Karr.
After “The Liars’ Club” (2017) and “The Illuminated” (2019), this third novel by Mary Karr completes what is considered one of the best memories of the American narrative of all time and which involves a letter from the love of adolescence.
“ANY LOVE” by Jane Smiley.
Twenty years ago, Kinsella was, on the surface, an idyllic and happy family. From one day to the next, Rachel’s husband sold the house where they lived and took the five children abroad without her.
“THE LYING LIFE OF ADULTS”, by Elena Ferrante.
Radiography of the secrets of a bourgeois family in Naples in the 90s, the last novel about the upbringing and family of Ferrante, the pseudonym of an Italian author whose identity remains a mystery.
“THE HOURS”, by Michael Cunningham.
Three women are divided between loneliness and the love of beauty and life in three periods of the twentieth century, with the common thread of the novel “Mrs. Dalloway” by Virginia Woolf.
“EL COLIBRÍ”, by Sandro Veronesi.
Winner of the last Strega Prize, this novel tells the story of Marco and a whole series of misfortunes and blows of fate that he will face without losing his heart.
“LOS TERRANAUTAS”, by TC Boyle.
Recently arrived in the Arizona desert in 1994, Los Terranautas, a group of eight scientists (four men and four women), volunteers, in a successful reality show broadcast worldwide, to close under a glass dome that It is intended to be a prototype of a possible alien colony.