20 years ago
White Teeth
(2000), an iconic book that would make Zadie Smith a precocious but undisputed star of contemporary narrative, heir to Carver's conciseness and his tacit critical judgment of society.
Now, the British author returns with her first book of stories,
Grand Union.
The formal promiscuity that can be seen in this compilation, as well as its transgenderism and its shrewd and steely look at our fickle society, refer to David Foster Wallace and the way in which criticism, Luddism and experimentation are intertwined in
The Infinite Joke
.
In her first novel, the writer and cultural journalist Lucía Lijtmaer also flaunts her virtuosity.
cautery
, which intertwines two plots separated in time, is a display of talent and craft, simply doing it and doing it well.
Vocational writer and translator by chance, Nuria Barrios approached her first assignment with the idea that it would be a comfortable and uneventful job.
What she found was just the opposite: a sea of challenges and dilemmas that questioned her own knowledge of language.
From her hesitations, findings and achievements arises the essay
La impostora.
A writer's translation notebook
.
As with translation, literature could not travel and expand without the work of the publisher.
Carmen Balcells was and still is a myth in that territory and the writer Carme Riera has glossed her biography in
Carmen Balcells, trafficker of words.
Although the focus of history is not on him now, Kim Jong-Un is one of the most unknown and feared leaders on the planet.
Anna Fifield, a New Zealand journalist, provides
unknown or forgotten data about the character and his world in
The Great Successor .
And she does it with literary quality, investigative rigor and a certain and restrained sense of humor.
In
More was lost in the Philippines,
the journalist Jesús Valbuena, great-grandson of one of Baler's heroes, builds a documented account of the famous siege of the Spanish detachment in the church of a remote town in the archipelago.
With
The Castle of Barbazul
, Javier Cercas puts the finishing touch to his Terra Alta trilogy in a fast-paced and brilliant way.
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