10 Books to Read This Summer to Break Free From Routine

to’summer It’s one of the perfect times to grab one. book And not letting it go. Sun, beach and vacation are the perfect cocktail for binge-reading and reading those volumes that are impossible to read during the year, either because they are insurmountably long or because the subject matter compels readers to look straight into them. Summer readingsIt is also true that this classification is not an absolute truth and that picking up a book at a certain time depends on who reads more than anything else, but whatever the case, summer brings more free days than the rest of the year is a reality. For a large segment of society. And you have reached this point: Still haven’t chosen which book (or books) to read this summer? We suggest a list 10 nicknames to disconnect From routine and not boredom.

Books to read this summer break

1. You will get a smooth sea. (Del Periscope Editions) – Miquel Martin y Serra

This book talks about the people of the sea. Catalan coral reefs Those who ventured to distant waters during the nineteenth century and also the suffering of those who remained on land. Miquel Martín i Serra makes a small coastal town come alive again with elegant, evocative language and an argument that stems from a family story and a section.

2. like a beat on a microphone (Imperfect Alliteration) – Clara Queralto

Gabriella and Quim are the heroes of a universal story that is more captivating than meets the eye. Clara Quiraltowhich won the Anagramma Book Award for the novel, explores the boundaries between contradiction and desire, between what we think we want by virtue of judgment or pure social superiority, through a relationship between different and opposites who will have to adjust their steps and that, strangely enough, spring in summer.

3. Odile in the summer (Idealless) – Emma Baker

Odile in the summer Talking about awakening Sexual lifethe imprint of first experiences, relations of dominance and the social construction of heterosexuality. After years of not seeing each other, the protagonists of this novel meet again and remember the first pleasures they had together, but since then the sexual experiences of both have been marked by a relentless search for the male gaze. Because? A novel that raises questions of complex and sophisticated eroticism about our place in the world Standard.

4. exhalation (L’Altra Opening) – Tim Winton

Two boys meet an old man surfing champion Who traveled all over the world and was immediately fascinated by him. This is how the two heroes will discover the ecstasy of drowning, break the rules, face dangers they could not even imagine, and without realizing it, compete for the attention of the surfer. exhalation It is a bildungsroman full of passion and typical fire of youth and friendships. Betrayals Teenagers; a song about surfing, risk, and also the sensuality of first love.

5. Jarota between teeth (buzz) – Bao Kusi

For the first time Bao Kosi It did not leave readers who dared to immerse themselves in it indifferent. Through six stories, the author mixes violence I Tourism is attractive With the wit of a great conjurer and a style imbued with irony, satire and surrealism, and brushstrokes of the narrator’s sordid and real world, six stories are interwoven into Empordà and tell us more about the human condition than we think.

6. pants in the sun (La Campana) – Regina Rodriguez Servent

One of the great literary phenomena of the modern era, pants in the sun It has already gone through 15 editions and has become one of the funniest novels in Catalan narrative. Based on the author’s personal experience, Regina Rodriguez’s Maid Created a crazy autobiographical fantasy story with Rita Raccoons as the protagonist, a young woman who leaves forNursemaid In the United States because he doesn’t know where to go and ends up finding much more than he expected.

7. donut (Editor’s Corner) – Annie Ernaux

In this short reading, Annie Ernaux portrays her mother and delves into the complex and changing emotions of the mother-daughter relationship over the years: love and hate, guilt, tenderness and anger, regret… and paints, with latent emotion, the deep bond he maintains with her, now old and sick, despite her shattered memory and the deterioration of her body and mind.

8. Radical tenderness (Discontrol Opening) – Mrs. Court

The summer holidays should also make us think. In this article, German Sheda Kurt breaks them down. Standards Love is framed in the context of patriarchy, racism, and capitalism, and uses her autobiography as an example to explore how traditional models of relationships falter when once-secure family bonds are broken. What is love? Is love the meaning of life, a political alliance, an illusion, or an end in itself? To touch upon and strengthen the critical spirit of the most universal subject of all.

9. All those seas (Column) – Laia Aguilar

One summer afternoon, Julieta, a seven-year-old girl, Disappears On the beach between the rocks on the island of Formentera, without her eleven-year-old sister Greta able to do anything. Twenty years later, Greta, an adult living in London, returns to Formentera for the first time after the tragedy to care for her sick grandmother, where she will also be reunited with her mother. Three women from three generations will have to face the past and myths.

10. Fairies (The Second Ocean) – Oriol Gelebts

Books in a state of grace, a Exhibitions The protagonist is the city and its strange inhabitants. As well as the forest, the bushes and the animals that inhabit it. With a discordant, retro and popular mood, Yuriol Gelibits Rewriting tradition to make it his own. Twin Universe with Raymond Casillas Sunrise, which is no small thing. By José Luis Cuerda; Catalan eschatology with Monty Python absurdity; sanity with Rasa. Together to discover the greatness and misery of the city that could be ours.