Posts tagged with ‘Spain’
October 6, 2013
THE LIFE AND DEATH STRUGGLES of Wall Street, of the Spanish bullring, and of family life, compellingly drawn.
Grade: B PLUS
THE LAST MATADOR
Erev Press/CreateSpace
2013
Tags: B Plus Reviews, Novels, Self-Publisher Sundays, Spain
May 16, 2013
GLORIOUS, DREAMLIKE SPANISH novel riffs on the life and death of poet García Lorca. Luminous new translation!
Grade: B PLUS
THE INGENIOUS GENTLEMAN AND POET FEDERICO GARCIA LORCA ASCENDS TO HELL
Yale University Press
2013
Tags: B Plus Reviews, Historical Fiction, LGBTQ Interest, Literary History, Novels, Spain
November 2, 2012
A YOUNG US WRITER’S memoir of three pilgrimages (including the famed Camino de Santiago) has wit, lacks oomph.
Grade: B MINUS
A SENSE OF DIRECTION: PILGRIMAGE FOR THE RESTLESS AND THE HOPEFUL
Penguin
2012
Tags: B Minus Reviews, France, Japan, Memoirs, Non-Fiction, Religion and Spirituality, Social and Cultural Commentary, Spain, Travel Writing, Ukraine
February 28, 2012
SWEEPING EPIC ADVENTURE follows a Spanish woman from poverty to success as a couturiere to wartime espionage.
Grade: B PLUS
THE TIME IN BETWEEN
Atria
2011
Tags: B Plus Reviews, Historical Fiction, Novels, Spain, Women's Fiction, World War II
January 22, 2012
A COMPREHENSIVE HISTORY of the medieval and Renaissance Inquisitions sheds light on modern ideas of punishment.
Grade: SOLID B
GOD'S JURY: THE INQUISITION AND THE MAKING OF THE MODERN WORLD
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
2012
Tags: History, Italy, Non-Fiction, Religion and Spirituality, Solid B Reviews, Spain
January 8, 2012
EPIC HISTORICAL NOVEL with a magic realist touch takes in the Spanish Civil War, its origins and its aftermath.
Grade: SOLID B
BOOKS BURN BADLY
Random House
2011
Tags: Historical Fiction, Novels, Solid B Reviews, Spain
April 22, 2011
DRY WIT AND BARCELONA flavor make this Catalan mystery (with bumbling Columboesque twin detectives!) awesome.
Grade: A MINUS
A SHORTCUT TO PARADISE
Bitter Lemon Press
2011
Tags: A Minus Reviews, Barcelona, Catalonia, Mystery, Novels, Spain