Historical events or dystopias, family conflicts, loves and misfortunes run through the pages of these ten remarkable books translated into Spanish and published in 2020 that accompanied readers in the year ending.
“SAY NOTHING” by Patrick Radden Keefe.
An award-winning chronicle of the Northern Ireland conflict that begins with an event in December 1972, when several hooded men kidnapped Jean McConville, a 38-year-old widow with ten dependent children, in a Catholic neighborhood in Belfast. Everyone felt it was retaliation from the IRA, but no one dared to say so because of the terror that raged in the hottest time of the conflict.
“OUR UNEXPECTED BROTHERS”, by Amin Maalouf.
Searching fiction for hopes that he cannot find in reality, the Lebanese writer in this novel tells a mysterious episode in which the world escapes disaster and restores the philosophy of ancient Greece.
“THE NICKEL BOYS”, by Colson Whitehead.
Based on the shocking true story of a Florida (USA) reform center that operated 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 ended up in the 1960s he because of a misunderstanding in reformed education.
“EL REY CAMPESINO”, by Andrea Camilleri.
One of the late Camilleri’s favorite works, written entirely in Sicilian as a tribute to the language and its different dialects, and in which he recounts how a humble farmer was king of a small Sicilian town for six days.
“LA FLOR”, the Mary Karr.
Following “The Liars Club” (2017) and “Iluminada” (2019), this third Mary Karr novel completes what is considered one of the greatest American story memoirs of all time. love for adolescence.
“EVERY LOVE” by Jane Smiley.
Twenty years ago, on the surface, the Kinsella were an idyllic and happy family. From one day to the next Rachel’s husband sold the house they lived in and took the five children abroad without her.
THE LYING LIFE OF ADULTS, by Elena Ferrante.
X-ray of the secrets of a bourgeois family in Naples in the 1990s, the latest novel about the growth and family of Ferrante, the pseudonym of an Italian author whose identity remains a mystery.
THE HOURS, by Michael Cunningham.
Three women are torn between solitude and the love of beauty and life in three periods of the 20th century with the common thread in Virginia Woolf’s novel “Mrs. Dalloway”.
“EL COLIBRÍ”, by Sandro Veronesi.
Winner of the last Strega Award, this novel tells the story of Marco and a series of setbacks and blows of fate that he will endure without losing heart.
“LOS TERRANAUTAS”, by TC Boyle.
Newly arrived in the Arizona desert in 1994, Los Terranautas, a group of eight scientists (four men and four women), volunteered, as part of a successful reality show broadcast on a planetary level, to lock themselves up under a glass dome that It is intended to be a prototype of a possible alien colony.