Universe of books: The literary novelties that are coming in 2023

In the shadow, by Prince Harry isn’t the only release hitting bookstores this year. There are more stories from all genres hungry to reach thousands of readers around the world, whose plots range from the emotional, the mysterious, the haunting, the poetic and more. This year, readers will also meet old characters, who will enter into a strong debate with their pasts.

Universe of Books: the best sellers and the best of 2022

The editorial alfaguara starts its year with the launch of three important titles: The time of the flies of Claudia Pineiro; the lost light, of Nino Haratischwili, Any summer is an end of Ray Loriga Y A barbarian in Paris, of Mario Vargas Llosa. In his new novel, Piñeiro takes up the story of Inés, the remembered protagonist of the book Yoursand that in this literary installment she regains her freedom after fifteen years in prison for having murdered her ex-husband’s lover.

Other novelties this year come from Ireland, specifically from John Boyne, author of the famous novel The boy in the striped pajamas (2006). This tragic story that was adapted to the cinema by Mark Herman, will have a sequel under the name all the broken pieces (Salamander Publisher). In this new book, he stars Gretel (Bruno’s older sister), who at 91 now faces her painful past to try to save a child for the second time.

One of the big surprises of 2023 is Maryse Condé, who, at 85 years old, publishes what will be her last novel or her testament, as she herself has previously said. the author of The desired and winner of the Alternative Nobel Prize for Literature in 2018, presents The gospel of the New World, in which he shows a young man who lives with an adoptive family and has powers to heal the sick, something like a mixed-race Jesus Christ in a colonial and racist world.

The American Paul Auster joined the photographer Spencer Ostrander to launch the nonfiction novel A country bathed in blood, in which he reviews his own life to talk about something that afflicts an entire society: the use of weapons in the United States. “The gun that killed my grandfather is the same gun that destroyed my father’s life.” mentioned as a stitch to the heart in the synopsis. In this work, which will go on sale this month, the author makes an impressive essay in which he traces the centuries of use and abuse of weapons in the United States, from the colonial history of the Republic, marked by the armed conflict against the native population and the forced enslavement of millions of people, to the mass shootings that dominate today.

After moving with Hamnet two years ago, the Northern Irish Maggie O’Farrell returns with a new novel set in 16th century Florence. This is the Spanish translation of the married portrait, a story that introduces Lucrezia de Medici, a teenager who is forced to marry a duke, in order to provide him with an heir.

The Nobel Prize for Literature 2022, annie ernaux will continue to navigate the seas of autobiographical fiction. This year she will publish the young man, in which she recounts in the first person the relationship she had with a man thirty years younger than her.

Meanwhile, the Spanish writer Xavier Castillo, author of the snow girl (2020) and the game of the soul (2021) arrives with his sixth novel this 2023, called The Crystal Cuckoo (under the editorial label Suma).

This 2023 readers will know again about Alexander Zambra; the author of the emotional book Chilean poet returns to the theme of paternity in his new work mother tongue, which is not a novel but a set of stories, essays, poems and even chronicles. And it is that one of the things that worries this author is the communication between men.

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María Paulina Briones, director of the editorial Exquisite Corpse that among the novelties of this year are: the book of poetry The paved with blood, of Carlos Luis Ortiz; The diversion and the damage, the Argentine writer María Malusardi; Nervous systemof Lina Meruane; Y Fantastic zoography of Guayaquil, of Ana Maria Crespo. (YO)