Among the editorial novelties of 2024, the year in which two unpublished works by Camilleri and the centenary arrive, stand out the unpublished novel by Gabriel García Márquez and new fiction by Eduardo Mendoza, Murakami, Paul Auster, Annie Ernaux and Pierre Lemaitre. Kafka’s death.
The turning point will be the publication of the author’s unpublished novel in March Colombian Nobel Prize winner García Márquez“See you in August” (Random House), a song about life, resistance to enjoyment despite the passage of time and female desire, which tells the story of Anna Magdalena Bach, who for 28 years went by ferry to the island where his mother is buried, an experience that allows him to become someone else for one night a year.
It will be published at the end of January “Three enigmas for organization” (Seix Barral), Mendoza’s new novel in which members of a secret government organization face the investigation of three cases that may or may not be connected to each other: the appearance of a lifeless body in a hotel on Las Ramblas, the disappearance of a British millionaire on his yacht, and the unique finances of Conservas Fernández.
Murakami presents a long novel
“The city and its precarious walls” (Tusquets), from the latest Haruki Murakami, Princess of Asturias Awardis his first full-length novel in six years, based on a 1980 novella, which repeats his usual themes: lost love, dreamlike atmosphere, recurring scenarios and alternate worlds.
“Baumgartner” (Seix Barral) is a return to the author’s novel Paul Auster, which follows the writer and university professor Sy Baumgartner on a journey through the memories of a lifetime.
They will also be announced at the international level “What they say or nothing” (Cabaret Voltaire), Annie Ernaux; “Keep her” (AdN), Jean-Baptiste Andrea, Goncourt prize; “Fourteen Days” (AdN), a collaborative novel by Margaret Atwood, Douglas Preston, Tommy Orange and Celeste Ng, among others; “While We Live” by David Safier and “All the Happy Families” by Hervé Le Tellier, both in Seix.
They also excel in this area “The Invention of Sound” (Random House), by Chuck Palahniuk; “The Distance That Separates Us” (Asteroids), unpublished in Spanish by Maggie O’Farrell; “Aerostats” (Anagram), Amélie Nothomb; “Meters per second” (Nordic), Stine Pilgaard; “The Past” (Sixth Floor), Tessa Hadley; “The Miraculous Shop of Mrs. Yeom” (Duomo) Kim Ho-Yeon; and “Mona’s Eyes,” by Thomas Schlesser, and “As of Air,” by Ada D’Adamo, Strega Award 2023, both at Lumen.’
“A Rilke, Variations” (Galaxy), by Rafael Cadenas, Cervantes Award 2022, will appear in poetry; “Complete Poetry” (Lumen), Ana María Moix; and “Ritual murders. Songs” (Galaxy), by Bohumil Hrabal.
There will be no shortage of classics such as “Ipomedon” (Siruel), Hue de Rotelande, from the 12th century; or “The Dunwich Horror” (Minotaur), by Lovecraft, illustrated by François Baranger.
Centenary of Kafka’s death
Commemorating the hundredth anniversary of his death Kafka will be edited “I am Milena from Prague” (Galaxia Gutenberg), by Monika Zgustova, while Acantilado will publish “You are the task. Aphorisms”, edited by Reiner Stach; Nórdica, his short story “A Hunger Artist”, and Páginas de Espuma, his “Complete Stories”.
They stand out from the Spanish panorama “Last Function” (Tusquets), Luis Landero; “Vibración”, by José Ovejer, and the first two volumes of “The Complete Works” by Luis Martín Santos (both in Galaxy); “Words for Olivia” (Espasa), Nativel Preciado; “Peninsula of Empty Houses” (Siruela), David Uclés; or “Vulnerabilities” (Seix), by Elvira Sastra.
Vila-Matas’ fictional interviews
Under the title “NMK8. Enrique Vila-Matas, Eight fictional interviews”, H&O brings together fake interviews that Vila-Matas ‘sneaked’ into Fotogramas when he was an unknown young man, in which he fictitiously talks to Marlon Brando, Bardem, Nureyev, Rovira Belet, Anthony Burgess, Cornelius Castoriadis and Patricia Highsmith.
It will arrive from Latin America “Metempsychosis”, Rodrigo Rey Rosa, and “The Golden Horse”, by Sergio Ramírez (both from Alfaguara); “The past is behind us” (Anagram), Juan Pablo Villalobos; “Human failure” (Periférica), Diamele Eltit; “Frida’s Cook” (Planeta), Florencia Etcheves; “The Three Periods of the Novel,” by Alan Pauls, “The Style of the Elements,” by Rodrigo Fresán, and “Electric Shamans at the Festival of the Sun,” by Mónica Ojeda (these three at Random House).
“Best sellers” will represent books like “Complications” (Plaza & Janés), Danielle Steel; or “Love again your chaos and friction of living” (Grijalbo), Alberto Espinoza.
Exciting news
It will bring a black harvest “Coup de grace” (Salamandra), Dennis Lehane; “House of Night” (Reservoir Books), by Jo Nesbo; “48 Clues to My Sister’s Disappearance” (RBA), Joyce Carol Oates; “The Runaway Woman” (Destino), Alicia Giménez Bartlett; “Arpeggio of rain on glass” (Alba), José Luis Correa; “The Hunter” (AdN), Tana French; “Kingdom of the Blind,” by Louise Penny, and “The Valley,” by Bernard Minier (both at Salamander).
Salamandra will also edit “Samuele’s Private War and Other Stories from Vigàta”, unpublished Andrea Camilleri, who dissects modern Italy, and from the same author Destino will publish “The Forgotten Massacre”, about the massacre that took place in Sicily in 1848.
There will be other uncertain news “The Collector” (Harper Collins), Daniel Silva; “Ritual” (Reservoir), Sandrine Destombes; “The first case of Unamuno” (Alfaguara), Luis García Jambrina; “The Lost Manuscript of the Little Prince” (Suma), Cristian Perfumo; “The Last Game” (B), Jorge Ignacio Aguadero; “I Have Some Questions for You” (Sixth Floor), Rebecca Makkai; and “Daughter of Gardel” (Contraluz), Lea Vélez.
Source: Panama America
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