Editorial news this week (May 2 - 6)

Good morning to everybody. Just yesterday began this month of May and on this first Monday of the month I want to present you the Editorial news that you can find in bookstores starting this week, from Monday 2 to Friday 6 May. In this case you can find quite curious novels, as well as suspense, research and a couple of juvenile books.

"Death of a happy man" by Giorgio Fontana

Asteriode Books - May 2 - 264 Pages

Set in the summer of 1981 in Milan, in "Death of a happy man" we accompany Giacomo Colnaghi, a magistrate in charge of investigating the murder of a politician at the hands of a terrorist gang. Giacomo has always considered Italy a fair and open society, however he will see the need to understand the murderer by turning the novel into a story in search of the truth of society and justice.

"The legend of the sorcerer. The Apprentice ”by Taran Matharu

International Planet - May 3 - 496 pages

The story follows Fletcher, an apprentice blacksmith who discovers that he has the power to summon demons from another world. Upon being expelled from his town, he travels to the Vocans Academy where he will learn the art of invocation.

A young adult fantasy novel that follows the adventures of a sorcerer's apprentice in this first installment.

More information about the book at goodreads.

"Behind the uncertain horizon" by Frederik Pohl

Editions B - May 4 - 368 pages

Robinette Broadhead finances an expedition to the Food Factory, a ship that wanders lost in space and that transforms the basic elements that make up the universe into food. With this expedition the protagonist seeks to end world hunger, get rich and find his wife, who disappeared into a black hole during a scientific mission.

More information about the book at goodreads.

"The Glass Wizard" by Charlie N. Holmberg

Oz editorial - May 4 - 256 pages

The Glass Magician is the second part of The Paper Magician, the second part of a youth fantasy trilogy starring a young woman who wanted to study metal magic and her path changes when she is assigned to learn paper magic.

More information about the book at goodreads.

"Woman descending a ladder" by Bernhard Schlink

Anagram - May 4 - 248 pages

The figure that appears in the painting by the painter Karl Schwing is a naked woman descending a ladder, a work that has been missing for years and is part of the narrator's life. A painting that connects the present and the past, when he was a young lawyer who was assigned a case that no one wanted to take, a case closely related to this painting.

A story of art, love, deception, loss, possession, pain, memories, and missed opportunities.

"The Other Son" by Sharon Guskin

Sum of letters - May 5 - 504 pages

Noah is a boy who is terrified of water, suffers from terrifying nightmares and things only get worse from the point of view of Janie, his mother, who receives a call from school to pick up her son.

On the other hand, Jerome's life has also stopped, his time is running out and in Noah he believes he has discovered something that he has always been looking for.

"The Other Son" tells the story of a psychiatrist with little time and many questions, a boy who seems to have the answers, and two mothers who will have to question their lives.

"In the Hands of the Furies" by Lauren Groff

Lumen - May 5 - 480 Pages

Lotto and Mathilde are the perfect couple: looks that say it all without speaking, complicit gestures… Lotto writes plays and Mathilde is the ideal wife, everything is perfect, until fate intervenes.

"In the hands of the furies" we can find a story about the reality that hides behind perfection, about lies and omissions and about the different ways of seeing the same story.

More information about the book at goodreads.

Seven works are those that I have presented to you today. Has any news caught your interest?