Spain – The Modern Novel

Belén Gopegui:Quédate este día y esta noche conmigo ( Stay This Day And Night With Me)

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Post published:27 March 2023
Post category:Google Spain The Modern Novel website Women
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The latest addition to my website is Belén Gopegui's Quédate este día y esta noche conmigo ( Stay This Day And Night With Me). This is a novel about Google.…

Almudena Sánchez : Fármaco (Pharmakon)

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Post published:17 January 2023
Post category:Catalonia Psychiatry Spain The Modern Novel website
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The latest addition to my website is Almudena Sánchez' s Fármaco (Pharmakon). This is about Almudena Sánchez's struggle with depression, which hit her in her early thirties. Unlike other novels/memoirs…

Enrique Vila-Matas: Montevideo

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Post published:8 September 2022
Post category:Literature Spain The Modern Novel website Uruguay
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The latest addition to my website is Enrique Vila-Matas'Montevideo. Our unnamed narrator has written one novel while living in Melilla, turned to drug dealing in Paris and goes back to…

Manuel Astur: San: el libro de los milagros (Of Saints and Miracles)

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Post published:4 June 2022
Post category:Neoruralism Spain The Modern Novel website
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The latest addition to my website is Manuel Astur's San: el libro de los milagros (Of Saints and Miracles). Marcelino, a naive young man living in Asturias, a remote rural…

Javier Cercas: Terra Alta (Even the Darkest Night)

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Post published:22 March 2022
Post category:Crime Spain The Modern Novel website
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The latest addition to my website is Javier Cercas'Terra Alta (Even the Darkest Night). Cercas has now turned to crime novels - two more in this series have been published…

Almudena Grandes: El corazón helado (The Frozen Heart)

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Post published:12 December 2021
Post category:Civil War Spain The Modern Novel website Women
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The latest addition to my website is Almudena Grandes' El corazón helado (The Frozen Heart). This is a long and complicated novel set mainly in the present but very much…

Juli Zeh: Neujahr (New Year)

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Post published:4 November 2021
Post category:Germany Spain The Modern Novel website Women
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The latest addition to my website is Juli Zeh's Neujahr (New Year). Henning is on holiday in Lanzarote with his wife, Theresa, and young children. On New Year's Day 2018…

Javier Serena : Últimas palabras en la Tierra (Last Words on Earth)

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Post published:19 September 2021
Post category:Bolaño Mexico Spain The Modern Novel website
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The latest addition to my website is Javier Serena's Últimas palabras en la Tierra (Last Words on Earth). This is a fictionalised account of a novelist called Ricardo Funes who…

Almudena Grandes: Los aires difíciles (The Wind from the East)

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Post published:7 August 2021
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The latest addition to my website is Almudena Grandes' Los aires difíciles (The Wind from the East). Juan Olmero, a successful, unmarried orthopedic surgeon is moving from Madrid, with his…

Agustín Fernández Mallo: Trilogía de la guerra (The Things We’ve Seen)

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Post published:22 April 2021
Post category:Spain The Modern Novel website War
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The latest addition to my website is Agustín Fernández Mallo's Trilogía de la guerra (The Things We’ve Seen). As the Spanish title tells us this is a three-part novel, but…