Demon Copperhead - Barbara Kingsolver

This modern-day adaptation of Dickens' David Copperfield won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction last year. It's a coming-of-age novel with a message about rural Appalachian society plus the scandal of legally prescribed addictive painkillers with nefarious consequences. It is vividly and expressively narrated in the first person by the Demon of the title.

Herido leve - Eloy Tizón

Pedagógica recopilación de críticas literarias y algunos otros textos escritos por Tizón a lo largo de los años. Algunos autores ya los conocíamos y de otros hemos tomado buena nota.

City on Fire - Don Winslow

The city is Providence or some part of it. Danny Ryan is the central character and we are promised that this is the first book in a trilogy. Family ties and business in the mob environment. A thriller, sure enough. Many surprises in the plot.

Nostalgia ez da salgai - Xan Idiart

Idiart gazteak halako freskotasuna dakarkio euskarazko narratibari. Garazitarra izanik hango hizkeraren oihartzunak erakusten ditu, baina batuari nahiko leial eutsiz. Ipuinek fantasiari ausarki irekitzen dio atea gaurko Euskal Herritik abiatuta.

Sin muertos - Alicia Giménez Bartlett

El nuevo caso de Petra Delicado es contar su vida, nada de asesinatos. Familia, estudios, profesión, amores (tres matrimonios incluidos) dan para mucho y la narración es lo suficientemente amena. Se supone que la propia autora también está retratada, más o menos.

Notes on Grief - Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Grief concerning her father's death is what she talks about. Fortunately he died of old age if one can appeal to fortune in these cases. CNA was very close to him and here she reminisces about their relationship and her father's endearing personality.

White Nights - Fyodor Dostoevsky

Short story. A lonely young man whose name is not mentioned, knows Nasenka, a much younger and charming lady, and falls in love, naturally. They meet and talk throughout those four white nights. The ending is certainly surprising.