DECEMBER: Publishing news

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DICIEMBRE: Novedades editoriales

Empezamos el mes de Diciembre y en esta entrada os traemos una novedad literaria cada una.

Review: “An abundance of Katherines” by John Green.

Títle: “An abundance of Katherines”

Author: John Green

Book: Autoconclusive

Editorial: Penguin Books Ltd

Year: 2012

Pages: 213 (Softcover)

ISBN-13: 9780141346090

PVP: 8 € (Softcover) (Amazon)

Mark: 5/10

ABSTRACT

Katherine V thought boys were gross

Katherine X just wanted to be friends

Katherine XVIII dumped him in an e-mail

K-19 broke his heart

When it comes to relationships, Colin Singleton's type happens to be girls named Katherine. And when it comes to girls named Katherine, Colin is always getting dumped. Nineteen times, to be exact.

On a road trip miles from home, this anagram-happy, washed-up child prodigy has ten thousand dollars in his pocket, a bloodthirsty feral hog on his trail, and an overweight, Judge Judy-loving best friend riding shotgun--but no Katherines. Colin is on a mission to prove The Theorem of Underlying Katherine Predictability, which he hopes will predict the future of any relationship, avenge Dumpees everywhere, and finally win him the girl.

Love, friendship, and a dead Austro-Hungarian archduke add up to surprising and heart-changing conclusions in this ingeniously layered comic novel about reinventing oneself.

Reseña: “El teorema de Katherine” de John Green.

Título: “El teorema Katherine”

Autor: John Green

Libro: Autoconclusivo

Editorial: Nube de tinta

Año: 2014

Páginas: 316 (Tapa blanda)

ISBN-13: 9788415594314

PVP: 14 € aprox (Tapa blanda) (Amazon)

Nota: 5/10

SINOPSIS

Cuando se trata de relaciones, el tipo de Colin Singleton son las chicas de nombre Katherine. Y cuando se trata de chicas llamadas Katherines, Colin siempre es al que lo botan. Diecinueve veces, para ser exactos. Él es un niño prodigio con diez mil dólares en el bolsillo, una pasión por los anagramas y un amigo con exceso de peso y obsesionado con la jueza Judy. Colin esta en una misión para probar El Teorema de Previsibilidad Subyacente de Katherines, que logrará predecir el futuro de todas las relaciones, transformándolo de un prodigio desvanecido a un verdadero genio y finalmente le podrá ganar a la chica.

Dejar a un lado las expectativas y al amor entrar son parte de la divertidísima búsqueda de Colin de su pieza faltante y de la venganza de los botados de todas partes.

Female author: MARTA ÁLVAREZ (1994-)

Autora: MARTA ÁLVAREZ (1994-)

Literary review: "La mujer del maquis" (The wife of the maquis) by Ana R. Cañil

Title: La mujer del maquis

Writer: Ana R. Cañil

Publisher: Espasa

Year: 2008

Pages: 424

IBSN-13: 9788467032864

Price: 8.5€ (Tapa blanda en Amazon)

Mark: 10/10

SYNOPSIS

Cantabria, 1957. Paco Bedoya, the last maqui, died because of the bullets of the Civil Guard. Nineteen years have passed since Franco won the war, nineteen years during which a handful of men, with the support of the people of some lost valleys, kept their fight for the freedom. This is the story of those men and women that suffered tortures, imprisonment and repression. Still today fear inhabit in the corners of the manor houses, the cracks of the walls, under the moss and the verdigris that cover the ashlar stones. The fear, the fear… And the shame. They are willing to recover a painful and shaddy time where there were love and passion, solidarity and silent memories. It is too the history of the love between Paco Bedoya, the last maqui, and Mercedes San Honorio, two young people that fell in love before turning twenty years and that had a child, they had to live their love separated and had to dream that someday they could meet again. Ana R. Cañil, based on a great documentation and with real testimonies, have written a tale that overflows with emotion, passion and epic, in where the protagonists talk in first person making their history everybody’s.