Editorials do not rest and even in summer they give us long teeth with literary news that have arrived or will arrive in their catalogs during the months of August and September. We have collected some of them; five, specifically, that we are looking forward to getting our hands on and that only add to our to-do list. Discover these five literary novelties with us!
The pepper counterfeiters
- Author: Monika sznajderman
- Publisher: Cliff
- Release date: 23/06/2021
For decades, the family history of writer Monika Sznajderman was shrouded in mystery. His father never wanted to tell him about his experiences during the Nazi occupation of Poland, and he told him little about the paternal branch of the family: while the Lacherts, the clan of noble Catholic landowners in Volinia from which his mother came, had heard stories and anecdotes of all kinds, of the Radoms, the modest Jewish family from which his father descended, he knew absolutely nothing.
The Pepper Counterfeiters recounts the investigation that Sznajderman undertook to rescue their Jewish relatives from oblivion: Through letters, photographs, books and public archives, he traces the fate of his ancestors, which is largely that of Polish society during the Second World War. An extraordinary story that combines intimate narration with rigorous documentation to break the silence around one of the most tragic periods in the history of the country.
Wars of the interior
- Author Joseph Zarate
- Publisher: Debate
- Release date: 06/08/2021
After returning to his Ashaninka roots, Edwin Chota fights illegal logging in the Amazon community of Saweto until he was shot to death by timber traffickers. Máxima Acuña, a farmer and shepherd from the Andes of Cajamarca, is reluctant to abandon what she considers her property despite the presence of the Conga mining project, which seeks to extract gold on the same boundaries. Eleven-year-old Osman Cuñachí appears bathed in oil in a photo that travels the world and gives an account of the spill that contaminated the community of Nazareth and the river where the Awajún swam and fished.
Written with journalistic rigor and literary pulse, these chronicles by Joseph Zárate - awarded the 2016 Ortega y Gasset Prize and the 2018 Gabriel García Márquez Prize - not only seek to denounce social, economic, political and environmental wars that explode in the interior of Peru. They also illuminate the personal, psychological and emotional wars of men and women who, due to different circumstances, decide to defend and conserve their lands, customs and identities. What are we capable of doing - as individuals, as a society - in the name of what we call "progress"?
The ancient mountains
- Author Enrique Andres Ruiz
- Publisher: Periférica
- Release date: 30/08/2021
The narrator of The Ancient Mountains returns to the family home, in Soria, after the death of his father. There he has to take charge of a land that, far from the idealization of other times, now demands the care of the trees, the clearing of the undergrowth, the preparations to fight the fire. In his successive stays in this territory with imprecise limits, between the countryside and the small provincial town, he will decipher "a rhythm that does not keep pace but itself." But, also, it will reveal a quiet and insidious consciousness of History: that of those men and women forgotten by whom a republic and a civil war passed, the migrations of survival ..., and life, in short, in its most important aspects. dim and revealing.
With its beautiful prose, imbued with the liveliness of popular speech, and a singular cadence of thought, between the novel and the most intuitive essay, Los montes Antiguos is an ambitious inquiry against any naive naturalism or sweetened nostalgia. Against the myth of an Edenic country, but also against forgetfulness. A sort of modern Virgilian Georgian crossed by the contingency that compares in the faithful of the balance, with the same suspicion, nature and history.
Far from egypt
- Author André Aciman
- Publisher: Asteroid Books
- Release date: 6/09/2021
In Far from Egypt, André Aciman recalls his childhood in the splendid and multicultural Alexandria and the adventures of his eccentric family, Sephardic Jews with Turkish and Italian roots, from his arrival in the city at the beginning of the century until his expulsion in the XNUMXs, when the author was a teenager. A clan made up of figures as charismatic as they are unclassifiable: Uncle Vili, a boastful ex-soldier, Italian fascist and British spy; the two grandmothers, "the saint" and "the princess," capable of gossiping in six languages, including Ladino; the mother, Gigi, a deaf woman of arms to take; or Aunt Flora, a German refugee who never ceases to remember that Jews will lose everything they have "at least twice in their lives."
Comical and exquisite, with delicate Proustian echoes, these beautiful memories, built in the manner of the great family sagas, manage to envelop the reader with an unforgettable story and protagonists.
Edge
- Author: Elizabeth von arnim
- Publisher: Trotalibros
- Release date: 8/09/2021
The young and innocent Lucy Entwhistle has just lost her father when she meets the widower Everard Wemyss by chance. Mature, attentive, and chivalrous, Wemyss protects and guides her as her father used to. When after a few days he asks her to marry him, Lucy, confused and helpless, accepts. However, a growing shadow clouds his happiness: the ghost of Vera, Wemyss' first wife, who died in strange circumstances.
Inspired by the author's own experience And published anonymously in 1921, this classic of psychological suspense, the indisputable precedent of Rebecca, by Daphne du Maurier, explores the most disturbing and dark side of marriage.
Do any of these literary novelties catch your attention? If you are more of watching series you will also find in August on Netflix many new features to enjoy.