Salman Rushdie has not attended many public events since he was stabbed at a conference in the United States. For this reason, he has not had the opportunity to provide too many details about what happened. Until now. The author publishes a book of memoirs in which he tells how he lived that terrible experience. A few months before, the unfinished work of Gabriel García Márquez will have come to light. Mónica Ojeda also resonates strongly from Latin America, whose characters flee a devastated Guayaquil to go to a macro festival. And Murakami will sneak into every corner of the world with his new novel after The Death of the Commander. Although you don’t have to go far to enjoy a good work. Among Catalan writers, we must not lose sight of the news from authors such as Eva Baltasar and Pol Guasch, ready to surprise and make readers reflect.
-Chuck Palahniuk. The invention of sound (Random House)
The year starts strong. On January 18, the author of Fight Club publishes a dark and creepy work aimed at uncovering the atrocious secrets hidden behind the glamorous façade of Hollywood. Fiction or reality?
– Ottessa Moshfegh. McGlue (Alfaguara/Angle Publishing)
McGlue is in the cellar, too drunk to know if he killed his best friend. He only wants one thing: another drink. Because for him, sobriety comes with unbearable memories. Moshfegh’s debut arrives on March 14, in Spanish and Catalan, after the success of My Year of Rest and Relaxation.
-Haruki Murakami. The city and its uncertain walls (Tusquets / Edicions 62)
In 1980, Murakami published a story in a magazine that did not completely convince him. During confinement, he took up the story. The result is a novel of more than 600 pages that Princess of Asturias 2023 fans will be able to enjoy starting March 13.
– Salman Rushdie. Cuchillo (Random House)
Rushdie narrates the attack he suffered in August 2022 during a conference he was giving in the United States. An episode in which the writer lost his right eye. They will be available from April 18.
– Amélie Nothomb. Aerostats (Anagram)
Ange studies Philology and feels completely transparent to others. Things change when she becomes the teacher of a 16-year-old boy, Pie, who is fascinated by mathematics and aerostats and despises literature. A song to adolescence that arrives on February 21.
– Paul Auster. Baumgartner (Seix Barral / Editions 62)
Sy Baumgartner, philosophy professor, writer and widower, is about to retire but continues to struggle to live with his wife’s absence. A story of overcoming grief that can be read starting February 28.
– Stine Pilgaard. Meters per second (Nordic Libros)
The Dane’s second novel invites the reader to move to a peripheral community in western Jutland. The work, which has won the Danish Bookstore Award and arrives in January, tells the comings and goings of a young woman who moves there and who has to adapt to the new rural environment.
– Michael McDowell. Blackwater I. La riada (Blackie Books)
Stephen King says that Michael McDowell is his teacher. Spanish readers will be able to check it out now because on February 7 the first installment of the matriarchal Blackwater saga arrives, where the Caskeys, a clan of rich landowners, try to deal with the damage caused by a flood.
– Pierre Lemaitre. The silence and the anger (Salamandra / Bromera)
Paris, 1952. After moving to the French capital from Beirut, the Pelletier brothers face the challenges posed by their adopted city. After the success of The Wide World, Pierre Lemaitre continues with his exciting family saga, which will arrive on February 22.
– Marysé Condé. History of the cannibal woman (Impedimenta)
Maryse Condé has traveled the world. From her native Guadeloupe to Africa via France and the United Kingdom. Something similar happens to Rosélie, the also Guadeloupean protagonist of her new novel, who finds herself alone in a post-apartheid Cape Town after her husband has been murdered. On January 15 in bookstores.
– Gabriel Garcia Marquez. See you in August (Random House)
The unfinished work that the Colombian Nobel Prize winner left unpublished arrives in bookstores on March 6 with Ana Magdalena Bach as the protagonist, a woman who often takes the ferry to the island where her mother is buried. These visits are an irresistible invitation to become someone different for one night a year.
– Eduardo Mendoza. Three enigmas for the Organization (Seix Barral)
A deceased in a hotel on Las Ramblas in Barcelona, ??a British millionaire missing on his yacht and the unique finances of Conservas Fernández. Do these three cases have any relationship with each other? It’s something the writer leaves for a secret government organization and for the reader starting January 24th.
– Monica Ojeda. Electric shamans at the sun festival (Random House)
Year 2032. Nicole and Noa escape from a Guayaquil devastated by violence to enter the Chimborazo volcano where El Ruido is celebrated annually, a macro festival that brings together thousands of people, including the missing, those who never returned to the city. city. The Ecuadorian writer returns on February 8.
– Lorenzo Silva. Life is something else (Destiny)
Silva reflects in his new book – February 1 – on refugees, populism in the West, the tension in Spanish politics, the exhumation of Franco from the Valley of the Fallen, the pandemic and the taking of Kabul. A raw portrait that shows how the events we experienced have changed us.
– Rodrigo Fresán. The Elements Style (Random House)
A viral ghost travels through the world and infects it with oblivion while immunizing it against the beliefs of yesterday. Meanwhile, Land moves through his own history and that of those who surround and encompass his childhood, adolescence and maturity throughout three Great Cities. The best Fresán returns on January 11.
– Clara Obligado. Three ways to say goodbye (Foam Pages)
The author returns on March 6 with three long stories linked together that are reminiscent of a novel and that reflect three different moments of a family lineage of women crossed by life, joys and sadness. Never before has Clara Obligado delved into fiction as much as she does here in her own biography.
– Milena Busquets. General rehearsal (Anagram)
The writer and journalist brings together in this new volume, available from March 20, autobiographical and celebration-of-life texts, which delve into topics as diverse as men, intellectuals, friendship, children or the publishing world.
– Raúl Montilla. The daughters of the factory (Grijalbo)
Lucía’s father has been wanting to work at the SEAT factory for years. But it was she who achieved it. A milestone that has distanced her from her mother. The journalist invites the reader to sneak, starting March 7, into the ins and outs of a family saga in the Barcelona suburbs at the end of the 20th century.
– Luis Landero. The last function (Tusquets)
After the 2022 National Literature Award, Landero’s new release arrives on January 31, which travels to 1994, when the actor Tito Gil appears in the bar of a town in the Sierra de Madrid and proposes a collective performance with which to revitalize tourism and attracting people.
– Leila Guerriero. The call. A portrait (Anagram)
The journalist makes a portrait of Silvia Labayru, a woman who was tortured by the Argentine dictatorship, but who ended up being saved, which aroused suspicion on her side. A story of violence and love, full of chiaroscuro, which can be enjoyed on January 17.
– Ramon Mas The invisible walls (L’Altra Editorial)
Autobiographical chronicle about an announced death that arrives on January 24 and that recounts the passage to adulthood, while at the same time it stands as a hymn to the friendship forged on the margins of the canons of Vic’s conservative society.
– Paul Guasch. Offered in the hands, paradise burns (Anagram)
Liton and Rita lead opposite lives and when they meet they recognize each other and begin a great friendship in a totally hostile environment, with a constant drought and a disease that lurks in a world doomed to collapse. He hits bookstores on January 24.
– Maria Clement Never is a very ugly word (Ara Llibres)
Climent returns to one of the themes that focused on his debut, Gina, infertility, but in this case from non-fiction, between autobiography and essay without losing humor, as the reader will be able to see on February 12.
– Jenn Diaz Violence in three acts (La Magrana)
The writer and deputy will make public her testimony on February 8 about the sexist violence she suffered and of which for years she had not been fully aware.
– Jordi Puntí Confetti (Bow)
Based on the character of Xavier Cugat, Puntí wonders in this novel – February 14 – that won the Sant Jordi prize about the absolute power of fiction to manipulate reality and try to be happy.
– Enric Casasses. Right (Editions 62)
It is Casasses’ first completely unpublished book of poems since El nus la flor, six years ago, which makes it an event, which can finally be read on February 21.
– Eva Baltasar Sunset and fascination (Club Editor)
Baltasar leaves behind his triptych about motherhood and tells a story in two parts, one for each noun in the title: the first about a young woman who is kicked out of the house and left out in the open, and the second with a Gothic delirium of surprising finale that arrives on March 6.
– Sebastian Alzamora. The Federal (Proa)
After winning the Proa award, Alzamora returns to bookstores on March 6 to delve into the federalist uprising of 1869 with two of its protagonists, the revolutionary Pere Caimó and the first Catalan trade unionist, Isabel Vilà.
– Quim Torra Armand Obiols, from a coldness that burns (Empúries)
On March 13, former president Quim Torra publishes the biography of Obiols (Joan Prat), on which he has been working for years. Obiols was one of the great intellectuals of his generation, with an important rise as a critic, beyond being Mercè Rodoreda’s partner and advisor.
– Silvia Alcantara. Célia Palau (1984 editions)
Fifteen years after Olor de colònia, Alcàntara writes a spin-off —March 20—in which he recovers one of his characters, the determined Cèlia Palau, who leaves the colony to achieve independence for which she must fight.