Books Description

Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte (1846)

I must admit that while reading this book, I found myself a little bit oppressed and depressed. You must read it. It is a love story told like never before, and underneath all that layer of hatred and revenge beats that passion that will unite the two protagonists in the afterlife. In general, it is a really very good classic novel, and the end left me more than satisfied.

What makes the novel “a classic novel” it is all the supernatural elements that occur through all the novel. Still, it is the reader who must be attentive to discern or intuit them. You will love this novel I promise you. You will love it even more after you finish because you will be able to recognize that it is a very, very interesting and rare story.

Kiss of the spider woman by Manuel Puig (1976)

This book is a novel, written in the narrative genre. Reading this book will give you the sensation that you are reading a script. This novel was written by the Argentine writer Manuel Puig, who wrote a curious and compelling story of two men who are imposed to share a cell in a Latin American jail. Valentin, the first character is a young Marxist rebel punished for his ideals. Molina, the second character is a romantic fantasy condemned for his sexuality.

Through the glamorous world of cinema, an unlikely relationship forms that offer both men hope of surviving in their exiling. I like this book because it is easy to read since you are reading all the time Valentin and Molina's conversation as a script. I do have to say that at the beginning you realize who is talking to who. However, in the end, the two characters start having more and more similarities that then you cannot tell who is who.

One hundred year of solitude by Gabriel García Márquez Gabo (1967)

I am a great admirer of this Colombian writer. I have to say that it is the best book I have read it in all Latin America. I cannot praise this story highly enough. The writer has the most extraordinary creative gifts to write; he makes you believe that "magic realism" is real. He evokes a lot of creativity through the scenes, lines he writes. It is breathtaking. Some of his descriptions the most beautiful I’ve ever read, for instance: “and both of them remained floating in an empty universe where the only everyday & eternal reality was love...” what a world to immerse yourself in. This book is a masterpiece!

You may be wondering about “Magic realism” since I mentioned it above. Well, the most accurate definition for “Magic Realism” literary movement is found in a critical edition of this novel One Hundred Years of Solitude, written by GABO (1967). “Magical realism is a literary trend whose main features are the tearing of reality by a fantastic action described in a way realistic within the narrative.” In other words, this current surpasses the reader's imagination without detaching it from their culture, tradition, education, as well as memories of their ancestors and life itself.