LETRAS

A stranger emerges out of a freezing February day with a request for lodging in a cozy provincial inn. Who is this out-of-season traveler? More confounding is the thick mask of bandages obscuring his face. Why is he disguised in such a manner? What keeps him hidden in his room? The villagers, aroused by trepidation and curiosity, bring it upon themselves to find the answers. What they discover is not only a man trapped in the terror of his own creation, but a chilling reflection of the unsolvable mysteries of their own souls.

“It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife.” The Bennets are a family of five daughters, and with no male heir, the Bennet estate must someday pass to their priggish cousin Mr. Collins. Therefore, with no fortune or security of their own, the girls must marry well—and thus is launched the story of spirited and opinionated Elizabeth Bennet and the arrogant and aloof bachelor Mr. Darcy.

The Young Man is Annie Ernaux’s account of her passionate love affair with A., a man some 30 years younger, when she was in her fifties. The relationship pulls her back to memories of her own youth and at the same time leaves her feeling ageless, outside of time— together with a sense that she is living her life backwards. Amidst talk of having a child together, she feels time running its course, and menopause approaching. The Young Man recalls Ernaux as the “scandalous girl” she once was, but is composed with the mastery and the self-assurance she has achieved across decades of writing. It was first published in France in 2022.

Al comienzo, Jonathan Pine es simplemente el director nocturno de un lujoso hotel. Pero, cuando un intento de pasar información acerca de un hombre de negocios internacionales con tratos sospechosos alojado en el establecimiento se vuelve en su contra de una manera terrible y empiezan a morir personas cercanas a Pine, él se compromete a luchar contra unas fuerzas tan poderosas que no podría ni imaginar. En un relato escalofriante sobre corruptas agencias de inteligencia, sumas millonarias y la verdad tras el brutal comercio de armas, John le Carré crea un mundo claustrofóbico en el que no se puede confiar en nadie.

Una tarde de otoño, el cuerpo de una mujer aparece a los pies de la torre de luz de un remoto faro de la costa vasca. Leire, la escritora bilbaína que ha encontrado el cadáver, se convierte en la principal sospechosa. Desesperada, se verá obligada a iniciar una investigación que sacará a la luz intrigas familiares y conspiraciones económicas. Sus pasos no tardarán en desvelarle que está ante un imitador del Sacamantecas, el brutal asesino en serie que aterrorizó Vitoria en el siglo xix. Con personajes caracterizados con esmero y una fascinante ambientación, Ibon Martín mantiene al lector en vilo hasta la última página de una escalofriante historia que deja al descubierto las debilidades del alma humana.