These are the five jewels you should buy before the Madrid Book Fair ends

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There is much talk about the infinite queues, the meteorological risk of El Retiro and the dubious organization of the Madrid Book Fair of this 2021. But the truth is that it is one of the years with the highest sales, good news for the publishing world and society in general, which seems to have been reunited with the magic of reading in these months of confinement.

Inside of massive literary offer that can be found at the Fair, we wanted to ask five booths about the essential books to add to our shopping cart in this edition with the requirement that they be written by women.

Some of them have told us that they have noticed that younger women come to the booths asking for specific authors, observing an increase in female references within the new generations, although others affirm that “books written by women” are not requested, but rather “quality books” which derive directly from them. “Young women are reading more and more to women, but above all it has been the work of booksellers and booksellers. More women are published and at the same time there is a greater presence of their works in the shop windows “, explains Marina, from the Muga bookstore with which we spoke from the Fair. To put an end to this literary event with a good taste of little we leave you five jewels, some reinventing classics and others with an authentic and fresh vision. Which one do you prefer?

Empty houses

If there is a booth where books are recommended with passion, dedication and originality, that is the booth 312 of the Muga Bookstore. There, Marina reveals works (not necessarily current) that are authentic hidden secrets. On this occasion, he recommends us Empty houses (Sixth Floor), by the Mexican author Brenda Navarro.

“It is her first novel and it is bestial. They are two voices of two Mexican women. The first of a middle class and the second is a very low class voice that steals the son from the first. Both are good, both are bad They both suffer and exert violence. It is a hard and spectacular book. When I read it, I could not read it for ten days because, overall, I have already read it all. For me it is essential, “he tells us.

Old Women Manifesto

From the Smuggling booth 90, Alfonso recommends us Old Women Manifesto (The red sheep) by Mari Luiz Esteban Galarza. “It is a collection of poems and the work of a referential author within feminist anthropology that is working very well. It addresses the conception of the body from a perspective that draws heavily on feminism. It talks about aging, relationships, and relationships with peers. Without a doubt he is among our favorites. ”

Mari Luiz Esteban Galarza began her career in medicine, but moved towards anthropology in her desire for a fruitful link between body and health. Now she is a university professor at the University of the Basque Country and a researcher, and her lines of research focus above all on health, the body and gender.

The color of milk

Andrea, from the bookstore Ad Hoc coffee shop in booth 67 US recommends The color of milk (Sixth Floor) by Nell Leyshon. “As a curiosity, in 2014 this work received an award from the bookstores for the best book. It is a beautiful and short novel that tells a simple story, but told in a very delicate and subtle way that makes it touch your heart. these readings that although they seem discreet and can go unnoticed, you remember them forever “, explains the bookseller.

A room of my own

Leaving aside that we are talking about a classic, from the house 62 of Women & Company, La Liberia recommend us a new edition of A room of my own de Virginia Woolf, the one made by the Editorial Sabina with translation by María-Milagros Rivera Garretas.

“Definitely Sabrina’s edition of A room of my own is the edit. For many years, the translation of Borges has been handled in Spain, who will be a very wonderful man at lunchtime at home, but as a translator for a feminist writer, he leaves much to be desired. She translated it into generic masculine when it is a book primarily written for women. He changed things he did not like, omitted paragraphs … This is an edition edited by a feminist publisher, with a feminist translator and with feminist content, “says the bookseller while holding the book in her hands.

Chance of the body

The Guest country in this Book Fair has been ColombiaThat is why we could not leave without visiting the booth that houses it. There, in the booths 8 and 9, Sofía Balbuena recommends us Chance of the body (Las Afueras Editorial) by María Ospina Pizano. “It is a book that for me has been written from the Colombian present day, from the conflict of the war but against dogma. Against the idea of ​​standing on one side of the other, it avoids simplifying the question as black and white, as if it were a football game, “he explains.

This book of stories is about “a girl who is somehow rescued from the FARC and included in a process of re-socialization. They put her to work in a supermarket and she begins to tell her story, but a ghost editor cuts her off and tries articulate it in another way. In the end it is the reflection of that new life that is full of emptiness and anguish, in that push to normality that comes out of the jungle. It is an interesting book so that each one can draw their own conclusions about the conflict does not force you to opt for something in particular, it gives you tools to think about it even if it is a short narrative book, “explains the bookseller who does not say that she does not stop for a second to sell works by Colombian authors.

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