Pérez-Reverte's adventure novel, Carmen Mola's dark network of exploitation and other books of the week

This is how bad things begin, with an unfulfilled promise that buries justice under the sand of radicalism and a handful of generations debased by the poison of racism to the point of not being able to distinguish whether what is protervo is born from social precepts governed by an atavism inexorable or is born, instead, of the sovereign will of the individual.

And so begins

the new and protean novel by South African Damon Galgut, the book of the week for

.

More reading proposals?

, the new from Arturo Pérez-Reverte, which more than a novel is an adventure film in revolutionary Mexico from 1910 to 1914, with its waste of gunpowder, bullets, harshness and violent characters.

Or

, the collection of poems where Ada Salas intends to investigate collective memory through the traces that reflect our passage through the world.

Through the microcosm of her family, the Ukrainian Victoria Belim paints in

an altarpiece of her country at war.

In

, Mo Yan composes a series of stories with a unique and masterful tone where tradition and modernity, East and West are mixed.

A historical figure in cultural journalism, Llàtzer Moix, has traveled the world to speak with the most recognized architects of architecture in recent times, in a series of interviews collected in

.

In

the French philosopher Étienne Souriau poses an intriguing and revealing question that he attempts to answer: could one speak of a work of art created by and for beasts?

In addition, the anthology

celebrates 100 years of radical modernity and heterodoxy by Cristóbal Serra.

To finish, we also highlight the return of the holy trinity of the Spanish noir novel: Carmen Mola, who presents

And, finally, the essay

by Carlos Goñi, reviews numerous biographies of exciting characters from Hispania before and after the complicated Roman conquest.

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