Liar Moon
Verona, 1943. A wealthy fascist has been murdered. All suspicion falls on Claretta, the widow from whom he had just separated. Before dying, the victim managed to write a “C” in the gravel on the ground...
Literature - Psychological
Waiting for the barbarians
An official of a powerful empire gradually becomes aware that he might not be living in the most just of worlds. Because yes, that empire prides itself, like all others, on being the pinnacle of...
She Who Was No More
It has been constantly reprinted and adapted into film and television. Originally published under the title Celle qui n’était plus, it was jointly created by two important authors who renewed the detective...
Love for Lydia
The novel is set before the 1929 crash, although no date is given, in an English mining town very similar to the one where the author lived. The plot begins in the mansion of an old, now-ruined aristocratic...
Alone
Mei, a forty-two-year-old woman immersed in an apathetic marriage and recently fired from her job, decides to seek refuge in the house where she grew up, a small farmhouse in the middle of the forest. There...
Deerbrook
It is a complex story, since if we limited ourselves to saying that the novel portrays Victorian society, it might be a superficial view, as this story marks a milestone in feminist literature.
The...
A Pale view of hills
Etsuko's eldest daughter commits suicide, which leads her to remember a woman she met shortly after the war—this woman also has a young daughter, traumatized by a death she witnessed: that of a baby drowned...
Daniel Deronda
It is a long, profound novel of great erudition, mainly set in London. The author reflects on the psychology and thoughts of each character, contrasts interlocutors while criticizing hypocrisy in general,...
Dancing in the Dark
It is a long novel with a romantic character. The story unfolds in two time periods: one around World War II and the other in the present day, with Liverpool as the setting in both cases.
After the...
The Nurse's Secret
Set in New York in the 1880s, during the so-called Gilded Age. It takes place in Bellevue, a large public hospital where efforts are being made to reform the healthcare system based on the principles of the...