The nine unmissable books of this 2021: Ideal to read on these dates

By Leonardo Silveira |@Leosmattiauda

The skin (Sergio Delmolino)

Editorial: Alfaguara

Sergio del Molino (1979) is a Madrid writer and journalist, author of the book "The look of the fish".This is a novel that knew how.Now the mill returns to the ring with a work that is not nor, nor rehearsal, nor autobiography, or it is all at the same time.A book about Lapiel a priori would not seem so attractive, although if we take a slope, the skin is the most extensive organ and also our presentation Almundo: our skin betrays the race, age, experience, and even the character of each.The skin, in addition, isolates us and, at the same time, communicates us with others.

In this book the author says about the adventures with his skin, and as many historical characters have lived conditioned by his bad skin: Stalin, the narco Pablo Escobar, the writers John Updike and Vladimir Nabokov, the singer Cindy Lauper, among others, parade through their pagesTogether with the narrator, and they tell us about image and cosmetic, our hypermedicalized society, and racism or classism, delmiedo to see us as we really are.

"The skin" is a libronrated with a very personal tone, with a refined and fluid language, an exquisite call to reading and a lot of creative and intelligent humor, Sin Deprurito to call things that hurt by name.

Klickitat (Peter Rock)

Editorial: Godot Editions

Peter Rock (1967) is the name of this American author who lives in Oregon, USA, and who already had already had Latin readers with his novel "My abandonment" (taken to Cine how: "Leave does not trace" directed by Debra Ganik in 2018).This is a story that talks about the bond between father and daughter who naturally live in a good.In "Klickitat" its connection with the nature and the influence of Great Henry David Thoreau continues;The protagonists are two teenage sisters fled to live in nature, by the system.

Klickitat means "moreallá" and it is a word that the protagonist sisters use as a code to encourage and stay together, they hardly speak, they communicately communicate with the body and look.Both books have a real -made connection that happened in the Forest Park of Portland, and can be read as an ode to freedom, as a questioning of consumerism and the deterioration of human vínculo with the wild nature.

The abysses (Pilar Quintana)

Editorial: Alfaguara

With his previous novel, "La Perra", Pilar Quintana (1972) was well received by our readers, now with his new work, "Los Abismos" (Alfaguara 2021), it was made as one of the most interesting feathers of the Latin American letters.

"Los Abismos" tells a little daughter, the revelations of his mother and the silences of his father to start building his own world.

In this novel, Quintanase enters in the darkness of the world of adults through the point of Vistade Claudia, a girl, who, from family memory, tries to understand a laconflictive relationship between her parents.As in all families, soy contains a crisis and it will only need something or someone to detonate it.In addition to that moment of childhood break, history walks through the cali's landscapes (the author's hometown), the sinuous roads, losabismos;The story of an unhappy marriage, depression, the mother bond Ehija, and a girl who carries that of her own feelings of loneliness and pain.

With a subtle andluminous prose, very connected to nature, Pilar Quintana has built an intimate object, with a dazzling narrative voice, which from the memory memory, leads the reader for the obsessions that inhabit the childhood that is being in time.

Amantísima (Nicolás Alberte)

Editorial: Tusquets

Nicolás Alberte (1973) surprised a few years ago with his novel “I hate you, eternity” (NationalMec 2019) that, among several sub -companies, put its center what a Unsjeto can expect to create art in the 21st century.

Now with its thirdnove, in the prestigious tusquets label, without neglect.

Taking advantage of a long winter weekend, seven people go to a unique inn at noon the mountains with very different purposes.But before they can even start to consider them, an extraordinary storm isolates them, change all the plans of all.

In that true withdrawal of the world they will seek to solve the mystery of a disappearance that will make them the formulas with which they face the enigmatic."Amantísima" is unatrapant polyphonic story that is woven with the testimonies of the protagonists, who, with their coincidences and contradictions, give the keys to the current police investigation.

In a world in which the sentence of the words "search", "answer" and "truth" seems to move away from its traditional definitions, this book is an inquiry about the lamanera in which each one positions itself with respect to the mysteries.

The viral (Jorge Carrión)

Editorial: Galaxiagtenberg

Jorge Carrión (1976) Literary writer and Spanish writer, with several books well received by Uruguayans.For example, "Libraries", published by Anagrama has a few years, and the "Against Amazon" essay, published by its current editorial, Galaxia Gutenberg.

Now it returns to "the viral", a hybrid text, a fragmentary essay mix, chronology of the pandemic, false personal diary and reflections on the cultural culture and digital virality, which has become the carroting of the nose for publicists, writers, artists, politicians, companies, institutions and influencers.The virality is today a phenomenon to Quetodo the world aspires, it has to do with the quantification of everything we consider, and it has come to stay.

The argument of "the viral" goes through digital virality as a concept, a counterweight, such as correlatesimbólico of biological reality, Netflix series as phenomenonocultural, social networks and the virtual meetings system, zoom.

A book by some hundred pages whose journey derives between technology and humanities, science, arts and literature between algorithms."The viral" is, Albessism Tiempo, a historical reconstruction of the first months of pandemic and the memory of a library, where Kafka, Montaigne, Italo Calvino Osusan Sontag live.

"The viral" is also anxperiment of cultural criticism between the classic and the digital;that atmosphere in which we are all part.

The origin of words (Damián González Bertolino)

Editorial: Estario

In 2009, Damián González Bertolino (1980) won one of the most important literary competitions in the country consu the first book of stories, "The incredible Springer".Then, they followed them: "El Fondo" (2013) and "The works of love" (2015), moving endifier genres with good lender.Now in his new novel, "the origin of the words," he tells his own biography remembering episodes or characters of the past, creating a connection between words and life, as an evocation of the memory of his own family tree and also of the historic country itself.

With ease and syndramaticism, it recounts any place, person or situation in which the appearance of a word was fascinated by.

The own words, and even letters, pass as in a kaleidoscope under the author's gaze and change in form, move and release, in this metaliterary novel by one of the most prominent authors of Uruguayan letters to discover the world with the experience of language of language.After all, understand the word to understand what is happening.A book that invites you to think more words and listen to others to resist oblivion.

Girls in suspended times (Tamara Kamenszain)

Editorial: Eternal Cadence

"Girls in a timely period" is the last book by Tamara Kamenszain (1947-2021), a hybrid degender work between poetry and the essay, which he wrote in the pandemic before he dies, where she passes review of a series of poets and poets, and thatIt is useful to return to the great theme that obsessively crosses much of its opera: the writing and the power of the word.

"Poetisa is a word that we put aside because she was ashamed and, nevertheless, now they return a handkerchief that our ancestors tied to the throat of their lyric out." This begins thispoem-ensayo.As a little big book is structured in five parts: "Poets", "Grandmothers", "Girls", "Anti -Vates" and "End of History", where constant elegOur unforgettable idea Vilariño and Delmira Agustini.A singular object in which the author plays to the balance between the essay and laopoesy, exploring both genres taking from each one that necessary to write a moving and memorable book.

Yoga (Emmanuel Carrère)

Editorial: Anagrama

After the iconic "lemonov" and "the kingdom", Emmanuel Carrère (1957) arrives with a psychic self -portrait between parts, where he explores at the same time the limits of the literary and a human being that could be any of us.

"Yoga" tells depression and the madness that lived in a psychiatric hospital, and reflects on spiritual lipstick, the love and failure of the couple, on the affective rupture and its consequences.Also about jihadist terrorism and the refugee crisis.And yes, in a way also about yoga, that Carrèrepractica for two decades, a refuge in which he finds a species secular de -religion that serves to approach his interior.

Written in short texts adifferent to other of his works, as fragmented, which may have to see with the rewriting he did because his ex -wife asked him to eliminate some parts where he told about his divorce.That is why he had to resort to some narrative resources in the final edition.The book is an invitation to enter the writer's kitchen, while we read Carrère how he wrote the novel we are reading.

Love expects (Martín Otegui Piñeyrúa)

First novel written by Martín Otegui PiñeyruúSmall unit stories merged into their fifteen chapters (superstically jumping number 13).

A rock concert, a visitor to the older brother or the news that the girl she looks like is the excuses to flee, to escape to Las Vegas.A little way to the epic of the hero's journey, in this case the flight of a selfish, cowardly, narcissistic, but also for those motifs too human;that he uses that trip to find himself, to connect through that concert with that most personal essence of his.That psychedelic and extracravagant journey of Las Vegas with their casinos, the hotels, the nocturnity where the significant looks like jewel wrapped in smoke, they do not let the presence of a rioplatense universe from which you cannot escape.

Love awaits is unanovela pop in which humor, irony and double meaning are mixture with songs of songs, interview fragments, but also appears elarte and life, and of course love in their various forms, because as I tell them song: "We went so many times to the same place".

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