Aramburu, Han Kang and Sara Barquinero star on the biggest weekend of the year

The spring month is one of the most productive times of the year for editorial marketing. This March 2026 stands out for the great quality of authors who publish new works.

A new story about global terrorism Fernando Aramburuanother historical novel Sergio del Molinothe new Nobel Prize book Han Kang… And confirmation of young writers too Sara Barquinero y Carla Nyman. Adamas, Pierre Lemaitre, Lorenzo Silva, Steven Pinker, Agustin Fernandez Mallo, Julian Casanova…

And more than the books we review, we need to pay attention to the new novel Juan Gómez Barcena, April or never (Seix Barral) and the meaning of influence Slavoj Žižek, Point made (Paidos).

By the author Country travels between the forces of violence and violence to tell the story of Maite, a woman who passed her mother and her sister, whom she had not seen three years ago, in the last days of the kidnapping Miguel Angel Blanco.

The historical background is more than a deep story in this novel because it has a strong impact on the society and by extension the characters of the novel. How to get it CountryFernando Aramburu (San Sebastián, 1959) explores this story with great delicacy, favoring narration on a psychological level over description.

Sergio del Molino (Madrid, 1979) returns this time to the nineteenth century to revisit history Rosario Weissa painter relegated to oblivion because of her status as a woman and in order to avoid obscuring and taming the myth of Goya.

The writer starts from the contemplation of the self-portrait of the painter in the Prado museum and creates a fiction that aims to correct this oblivion. Goyait is arguably central to the story, but it also has particular significance to Spain’s convulsive historical context and origins.

Random House continues to renew the work of Han Kang (Gwangju, South Korea, 1970), winner of the 2024 Nobel Prize in Literature. Shade and blood It is a novella written by a South Korean writer in translation Vegetarianwith great success and is also a painter.

Injured, according to the official version, he dies in a fatal accident, but his best friend does not accept that the married painter decided to end his life, so he embarks on a dangerous investigation into the great obsessions that Han Kang tackled in his work: art, astrophysics, tension, memory, dreams…

French writer Pierre Lemaitre (Paris, 1951), one of the most influential people on the planet, concludes the saga of the Pelletier family, Glorious yearswith a novella in which all the ingredients that turned him into such a unique author are not missing. El tension, contado de un modo tan sui generisdominates the relationship that trudges around the fire, in which the baby and the apple tree are involved.

“Everything in my literary project is based on the XX century,” he once admitted in Kulturný, and this novel is full of success. François, Jean, Colette and Philippe are privileged witnesses the transformation that France was experiencing between the Second World War. The presence of the cat Joseph, who appears in this saga after the publication of the first volume, was crucial. The world too.

Common knowledge, that is, shared knowledge, is necessary to achieve the great benefits of our time. So he created it Steven Pinker (Montreal, Canada, 1954), a thinker awakened by considerations of human morality beginning with neuroscience.

Financial crises, wars or the culture of cancellation, some of the themes that are analyzed in this book, can be drawn from a collective understanding of common knowledge that supported the coordination of actions.

Sara Barquinero (Zaragoza, 1994) return to bookstores to the success of critics and readers who were Scorpionsa monumental novel – more than 800 pages – converted into a literary phenomenon (in an age of mediation and brevity).

This story was compiled in 448 pages, which is slightly more than the length, but retains instead the narrative ambition that is the identity of his work. Let’s follow Alice, a philosophy student who lives with a superficial and determined world. Also if you are interested a teacher who has known you for ten years. “Written as a philosophical treatise”, according to the editorial, the novel leads us to complete questions such as consensus, but also highlights universal themes such as the beauty of art, friendship, etc.

The heroine of this novel is also a young girl fascinated by philosophy. No, a new story by a writer and playwright Carla Nyman (Palma de Mallorca, 1996) transcends the boundaries of reality. The woman who tells the stories is kept as a mascot by the philosopher Averroes and begins a relationship with SamuelPearce, a digital entity.

It is not easy to think that this novel is an extension of the story I published in El Cultural in 2024, which talks about the disease of the virtual relationship. In fresh and boisterous prose, we approach a universe in which we find many more contour concepts that we now use, e.g. transhumanism and incel culture.

More than Bevilacqua and Chamorro, the narrative work of Lorenzo Silva contains joyas como Phew y sus cuentos, recopilados en Afanes sin provecho. In the new novel, With nobodyit is one of those tasks in which the author escapes from the course that his two great characters ‘impose’ on him.

This time the author tells the story of the story Miguel Campinsa soldier who lived through the Marruec Wars, the Primo de Rivera dictatorship and the years of the Second Republic. A man who carries his dignity on the banner since he was born when he was still a child. The story of an anonymous hero who needed to be rescued from the shadows.

Always sharp and insightful in his postulates, it was hoped that Agustín Fernández Mallo (A Coruña, 1967) would remain detached at some point. artificial intelligence monster. Part of what he considers an “acceptable metaphor” is that “AI is neither intelligent nor properly artificial,” he says.

The writer goes back to the beginnings of life to point this out Humans have always been stubborn about creating an entity that surpasses us. God is the example; now it’s AI. The writer relates this to fallen angels in a text that traverses physics, anthropology, metaphysics, and theology.

Classic from Julian Casanova (Valdealgorfa, Teruel, 1956) in a comic version, with the theme of the 90th anniversary of the start of the civil war. Adapted for Miguel Casanova and illustrates por Carles Esquembrepart of the revised and updated 2022 edition.

Casanova realized a deep dive into the greatest heritage of our recent history, from the antecedents, essential to understanding the conflict, to the pre-Belt context that lived in Europe, crucial to the location of the aliases. The new volume is summarized in 160 pages.