5 Best Spanish Novels That You Must Read
List of 5 best Spanish novels. Check out the booklist.
1. En el tiempo de las mariposas
In 1960 in the Dominican Republic, four young women from a pious Catholic family were assassinated after visiting their husbands who had been jailed as suspected rebel leaders. The Mirabal sisters became mythical figures in their country, where they are known as Las Mariposas (the butterflies). Three decades later, Álvarez brings the Mirabal sisters back to life in an extraordinary novel.
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2. El beso de la mujer araña
Kiss of the Spider Woman is two prisoners, Luis Molina and Valentín Arregui, share a cell in a Buenos Aires prison. The story takes place between September 9, 1975 and October 8, 1975. Molina, an effeminate gay window-dresser, is in jail for “corruption of a minor”, while Valentín is a political prisoner who is part of a revolutionary group trying to overthrow the government. The two men, seemingly opposites in every way, form an intimate bond in their cell, and their relationship changes both of them in profound ways. Molina recounts various films he has seen to Valentín in order to help them forget their situation.
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3. Del amor y otros demonios
On October 26, 1949, the reporter Gabriel García Márquez was sent to the old Santa Clara convent, which was going to be demolished to build a five-star hotel on it, to witness the emptying of the funeral crypts and to cover the news. The remains of a viceroy of Peru and his secret lover, a bishop, several abbesses, a bachelor of arts and a marchioness were exhumed. But the surprise jumped when the third niche of the main altar was uncovered: a copper-colored hair was spread out, twenty-two meters and eleven centimeters long, belonging to a girl. The man hardly read on the tombstone: Sierva María de Todos los Ángeles.
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4. Las batallas en el desierto
Story of an impossible love, THE BATTLES IN THE DESERT is a masterful short novel that involves other aspects such as social and political corruption, the beginning of modern Mexico and the disappearance of the traditional country, and the rescue of individual and collective memories of a a city that Jose Emilio Pacheco loves deeply, but recreates without nostalgia and relentlessly denounces it.
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5. El general en su laberinto
Acclaimed by the people as a Liberator, the target of numerous political and military conspiracies, a romantic hero and even a libertine for his detractors and supporters, an upright and abandoned idealist who contemplates the ruins of his dream of unity of the American peoples, after the independence of the domain. Spanish Simón Bolívar undertakes – ill, with a diminished entourage – what will be his final journey. It departs from Bogotá to follow the course of the Magdalena River. Your trip will be your last in a double sense: it provides you with opportunities to consider the steps you have taken in your hectic life and, at the same time, the severity of your ailments prepares your encounter with death in several months.
