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Title: The revelation (Anagram) / Author: A. M. Homes / $ 990

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She has been called “the greatest portraitist of contemporary depravity,” and has written novels about life in American residential suburbs (Things you should know), on social failures (Music for burning hearts), and stories like those of Dreadful daysin which there can be situations as surprising as a family living in a supermarket. Now, his latest novel, after ten years without publishing, is a kind of political fable that takes place between 2008 and 2009, between the election of Barack Obama and his swearing-in as president of the United States. There is a character called the Bigwig, a millionaire donor to the Republican campaign, whose family is falling apart while he thinks that something must be done about the loss of values ​​with this new black and almost socialist president. So he embarks on a plan of disinformation. As real as history itself.

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Title: The exciting Mr. Lavelle (Silver Letters) / Author: Neil Blackmore / $ 890

In this novel, the English writer recounts the journey of two brothers (Benjamin and Edgard) who belong to the English aristocracy of 1763. As the title suggests, Benjamin, the youngest, is seduced by Horace Lavelle, a charismatic man, a kind of Mr. Ripley of that time. The relationship with Mr. Lavelle will have consequences for the lives of both brothers. “In writing this book, I wanted to remain faithful to the period, as every historical novel should be, but I also wanted it to appeal to modern readers. My characters make reference to the Enlightenment and the Renaissance, which were not in common use until the 19th century,” says the author in a note apologizing for the anachronisms that appear in his story. This is the third novel by the writer who, like his characters, has traveled the world.

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Title: Erotic correspondence (Rara Avis) / Authors: Virginia Woolf y Vita Sackville-West / $ 990

He published the novels The waves, At the lighthouse, Orlandoand the essays Three Guineas y A room of one’s ownwhich made her a pioneer of feminism. But Virginia Woolf (1882-1941) also maintained a copious erotic correspondence with her lover, the writer and aristocrat Vita Sackville-West (1892-1962). Both were married and belonged to different social classes. Virginia was inspired by Vita to write Orlando. “The texts collected here offer us a literary peephole into erotic fiction constructed from the romantic, intellectual and biographical exchanges between two writers of the last century, two women who through letters and the occasional telegram seduce each other, claim each other, recognize each other and tense each other, test each other, connect with each other and become passionate about each other,” says Vir Cano, author of the prologue.

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Title: To bewitch a hunter (Alfaguara) / Autor: Luciano Lamberti / $ 890

Intrigue works as the fuel that drives this story, which begins with a disturbing stalking. Lucía, the entry point to this novel, constantly feels a shadow looming over her shoulders in a recurring and daily manner. When the origin of this sinister presence is finally revealed, both Lucía and the reader enter into a terrifying story that spans several generations, which moves from the suffocating city to the inhospitable countryside, and which finds in its correlation with the horrifying horrors of the Argentine dictatorship the perfect way to make your skin crawl. The novel, awarded the 2023 Clarín Novel Prize, is based on fragments that are intertwined until they become a puzzle increasingly complex, which Lamberti has built with great skill.

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Title: Onte, behind the name (Spelling) / Author: Noelia Viqueira / $ 500

The author is a poet and narrator, as well as one of the founders of the publishing house Deletreo, together with Walter Biurrum and Emilio Vairo, which was founded at the beginning of the pandemic. They had been associated with a collective of poets, Pasame el Mic, which met at Dante Bar. Viqueira’s latest novel travels from Galicia to Montevideo through three generations. The protagonist is a teenager named Julia, who was raised by a strict father. When she becomes pregnant by a criminal, a period of guilt and shame begins. The novel begins with childbirth, in a sanatorium where women who are called “mother” are mistreated. The epigraph has the enigma of poetry: “The wound was neatly mended. The child, a beautiful specimen of the species; less wolf and more moon, than the one that waned in the sky of his first cry.”

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Title: Insomnia (End of the Century) / Author: Karina Macader / $ 590

“It was five in the morning. Fernanda knew it without having to look at the clock. She turned from one side to the other trying to convince herself that she was sleepy.” This is how every night is for the protagonist of this novel, which already announces the character’s suffering from its title. Although the most prominent name is Fernanda’s, which appears at the beginning of almost all the chapters, the novel is narrated in several voices, because the protagonist is a psychologist and in the story her voice is intertwined with that of her patients. “In the following months, Fernanda dedicated herself to a desperate search to discover fresh dreams. During the day she naturally asked her patients over and over again what they had dreamed.” Thus, between dreams, reality and fantasy, this story is developed, taking its protagonist to a limit very close to madness. The writer has published several children’s books. In 2022, she won a Bartolomé Hidalgo with her book Animal rampageand the same title won second prize in 2023 for published works from the MEC in the Children’s Literature category.