I Served the King of England - Bohumil Hrabal

Or rather I served the Emperor of Ethiopia. There must be some Eastern European hotel tradition and this is the fictionalized account of it through the trajectory of a Czec waiter in various hotels before, during and after the Second World War. Parodic, exaggerated, human and original reflection on life.

Diario - Jules Renard

Selección del diario de Renard, escrito desde los 22 hasta su muerte a los 46 años. La traducción es de Ignacio Vidal-Foch. Siempre insatisfecho, socialista de salón, crítico consigo mismo y con los demás. Brilla en muchas frases que cortan como un cuchillo bien afilado.

Brood - Jackie Polzin

Curious novel about chickens. But not only, it's also about this woman living in Minnesota who is married to a sociologist, or something like that, quite affectionate. Winter is cold, icy, and the four hens try, without being aware of it, to alleviate the loss of a daughter in an abortion. Beautiful and expressive writing, brimming with humor.

Zeruak eta infernuak - J.M. Olaizola "Txiliku"

Jakin-minak bultzatuta idazleak hainbat mito, kondaira eta pasadizo bitxi bildu du liburu honetan, zerua eta infernua ardatz hartuta. Batzuk ezagunak izan arren, denak nahiko atseginak dira irakurtzeko. Zarauzko "Zamariko Zuloa" dugu kontu hauen epizentro sentimentala.

Una pasión prohibida - Cristina Peri Rossi

El del título es uno de los relatos del libro, publicado a mitad de su trayectoria vital, en 1986. Ciudades sin nombre y personajes que sabemos no llegarán nunca a ninguna meta. Atmósferas oníricas y surrealistas. No faltan los toques de sutil ironía a cuenta de los inveterados comportamientos humanos.

Inside Story - Martin Amis

A bit of fiction and some changed names is this pseudo-novel with special emphasis on three central figures in his life: Philip Larkin, Saul Bellow and Christopher Hitchens. Amis is now in his seventies and is especially sensitive to the subject of death. As always, he is a brilliant writer full of words. There is also room for some literary advice.

Las letras entornadas - Fernando Aramburu

Escritos autobiográficos sobre su relación con la literatura desde su adolescencia, con la inclusión, como cuentas de un rosario, de artículos publicados por él a lo largo de los años. La excusa de las visitas al "Viejo" es lo de menos y no hacía falta, me parece, vaciar tantas botellas.

The Burning Boy - Paul Auster

Auster cannot stop working and thus he has concluded this big effort to bring back to us the art and life of Stephen Crane, the so-called "burning boy", who died young, at thirty, but spent his time writing and then writing some more and after that he kept on writing.

Fools of Fortune - William Trevor

The title is a common expression meaning that fate has taken over the control of lives, and so it seems in this tragic story set in rural Ireland in the first half of last 20th century. Political violence and love leave a melancholy mark. I think the writing is quite precise and delicate.