Recovery of a novel published by its author in 1992 and which, like others of hers, combined great sales and an indelible literary memory. We are in the fifties, in Greenville County, in the center of the family of the protagonist – an alter ego stuck to the shadow of Dorothy Allison's autofiction – and the protagonist is Ruth Anne, but everyone in the Boatwright family they call Bone. She did not know her father, and from the white trash universe in which she is located and sentenced, her family looks at the world, she describes it to us and resists it. To the mistreatment of strangers and neglect.
One of the virtues of this soap opera is knowing the truth. People who do not know or believe they are the meat of any fiction but of their own lives fight, make mistakes, cry and laugh, are violent and compassionate, tender and tremendous if necessary. It is masterful how he does what he does with a series of warehouse scraps, how poverty, economic and emotional dependence, sexual abuse, hatred and class belonging, compassion and the right not to give encouragement to no one. All of this is possible with a flexible and powerful prose, not at all self-absorbed, clear and direct.
In its day, Bastarda gave recognition to Dorothy Allison, becoming a finalist for the prestigious National Book Award, not exempting her from controversy and including this book in one of those lists of prohibited books drawn up by the morality police of some countries and communities. . This book still shines, in a wonderful translation by Regina López Muñoz.
Valle took the 16th L'H Confidencial prize with one of the books of the year. Obsessive, hard-working and literary, he recreates the arrival of Yankee jazz in the Raval, with the "crime of the existentialists" of historical pitch in the plot. Nerve, respect and toughness from the creator of Palop.
Franklin writes fast, strong, and well. In a world where both God and the devil have fled in fear, the characters of Smonk and the whore Evavangeline will find themselves for the good of literature in Old Texas, a place with an unbearable percentage of widows and dead children.
José Manuel del Río, a Galician criminal lawyer based in Barcelona, influences the thriller set in the streets of Madrid, in which he has the unusual merit of focusing on the victims, their secrets and the enigmas of a shattered future. Specifically, in Carla, a teenager murdered perhaps for being innocent.
