Spring Recommendations
A guide designed to explore the diversity of entertainment. Discover new stories and remember the most iconic classics of all time.
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With this fiction-free novel, Javier Cercas returns to his most personal line, in which he manages to tackle the role of the spiritual and transcendental side in human life, the place religion holds in it and the craving for immortality. This is also the first time that the Vatican has opened its doors wide to a writer.
Primera memoria (First memory) narrates the story of the passage from childhood to youth of Matia and her cousin Borja.
A melancholic elegy of the perversion of innocence, with the Civil War as its back- drop. This novel, which was awarded the 1959 Nadal Prize, is without any doubt, one of Ana María Matute’s best works.
For many years Haruki Murakami ran a jazz club, called Peter Cat, before devoting his time completely to writing. The Japanese writer’s passion for jazz led him, without any doubt, to write this book composed of fifty five portraits of musicians, accom- panied by an illustration by the Japanese artist, Makoto Wada.
An engineering student reaches the local sanatorium in search of a cure for his tuberculosis, where he coincides with other patients from all over Europe. In the evenings, while slightly intoxicated with alcohol, the guests talk about divinity and humanity. And meanwhile, in this idyllic setting troubling things start to happen.
