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Andrea Echeverri
Singer
Colombia’s
Andrea Echeverri, leader of the alternative pop group Aterciopelados
(Velvety), is a pacesetter of rock in Spanish. Through her art studies,
Echeverri has developed a personality, a style and a way of living and
singing all her own – colorful, free and with a commitment to
nature and society that has formed “the person I
am,” she says.
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Un momento de descanso
Antonio Orejudo
It's a marvelous
exercise, sometimes hilarious, sometimes bitter but always lucid and
sharp, about the collapse of certainties. It is also a powerful fable
machinery that makes narrative ironically for some reasons, from family
crisis through recovery of memory, to auto fiction. Orejudo is one of
the most dazzling storytellers, fun and overriding of his generation.
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El hombre que amaba a los perros
Leonardo Padura
A journalist and
assistant in a veterinary clinic, flashes back towards an episode in
his life when he met a man who used to walk by the beach with two
Russian dogs. After several meetings, the man said Jaime Lopez was his
name, and began to tell him his confidences focusing on the figure of
Trotsky's murderer, Ramon Mercader, of whom he claims have been friends.
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Word of a new Isabel Allende novel is always
cause for celebration, so last week I was delighted to learn about
Maya’s Notebook, “the story of a 19-year old girl
who falls into a life of drugs and crime, and takes refuge on a remote
island off the coast of southern Chile.” 
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Daniel Glattauer
In this sequel to
Contra el viento del norte, nearly a year has passed since Emmi and Leo
fell madly in love through email when Leo returns to Boston to find
news of her. Both recognize their feelings for each other
haven’t changed and consider meeting in person for the first
time. But Leo has just started a new relationship and Emmi is still
married.
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