Julio Iglesias, the Lucio case, Menem, and Florencia Bonelli, among the 20 new books of August

August begins with a historic move: Mafalda and all of Quino's work change publishers and are added to the Penguin Random House catalog, which will relaunch editions of the famous comic strip. The month's publishing journey is rounded out with a series of titles that promise to set the literary agenda: releases from authors such as Gabriela Exilart, César González, and Joan Didion . Also returning are Florencia Bonelli, Ana María Shua, and Fito Páez . Clarín previews the ten must-see releases.

With this book, Florencia Bonelli closes the saga starring Diana, a woman scarred by the wounds of the Balkan War. In this installment, Mariyana Huseinovic fights to reunite with her lost daughter while facing trafficking networks, corruption, and murder. With the help of an NGO that combats pedophilia, she embarks on a final battle to defeat the ghosts of her past. A vibrant tale of love, redemption, and justice.

In his poetic foray, Fito Páez tests the power of language beyond music. Through free verse and an introspective perspective, the musician explores the inner voice, identity, and the art of writing without a score. A lyrical exercise that confirms his talent beyond the stage.

Set in Tandil in 1872, this novel delves into a massacre that occurred during the New Year's celebrations, when a mob attacked immigrants accused of usurping land. Azucena Caballero, a determined and courageous young woman, finds herself trapped by the violence and must confront a fierce present: taking charge of her family, her land, and her own destiny, in a society that punishes both foreigners and women who dare to challenge the established order.

With the authority of someone who was not only Carlos Menem's brother but also a close collaborator, Eduardo Menem reviews the former Argentine president's life from his childhood in La Rioja to the end of his second term. Structural reforms, controversial decisions, betrayals, campaigns, and trials are addressed in detail in this personal account, which seeks to portray the man behind the politician and the politician who defined an era.

Mariana Komiseroff reconstructs the brutal murder of Lucio Dupuy in 2021 with a lucid and courageous perspective. Far from morbidity, she delves into motherhood, ideology, and violence. Using tools of narrative journalism, she raises uncomfortable and necessary questions about human passions and their limits.

This volume brings together all the microfiction books written by Ana María Shua , a central figure in the genre in Spanish. The author displays her mastery in extremely short texts that are strikingly powerful and beautiful. An essential work for lovers of minimal and precise narrative.

This book brings together the records Joan Didion kept during her visits to the psychiatrist in 1999, in the form of a diary addressed to her husband, John Gregory Dunne. With her usual lucidity and elegance, Didion reflects on her family, motherhood, work, guilt, and childhood in an intimate and revealing text. Notes for John offers a glimpse into a little-known side of the author: vulnerable, introspective, and determined to find meaning in the midst of crisis.

Julio Iglesias is the protagonist of this literary biography written by Ignacio Peyró , who for the first time approaches popular culture with a portrait that goes beyond the figure of the global Latin lover. From his illness-marred adolescence to his transformation into a global phenomenon and meme, the book offers a journey through his life, his music, and his impact on Spanish and international culture, with a tone that is somewhere between a journalistic essay and a literary chronicle.

In his second autobiographical novel, César González tells the story of "El Rengo Yeta," a teenager locked up in a juvenile detention center after being accused of participating in a kidnapping. There, among cells dominated by the rule of the fittest, the protagonist must survive violence, loneliness, and the scars of inequality. A stark tale of marginalization, prison, and emotional fragility in an environment that leaves no room for weakness.

An ode to cats transformed into a sacred text . Nai Osepyan elevates feline devotion to a form of spirituality with commandments, sins, and rituals. A blend of irony and fervor, the book explores the emotional bond between humans and cats with humor, depth, and mystical passion.

In the midst of mourning the death of her son, writer Alma Parsehyan finds herself caught in a plot of love, war, and redemption. Between Armenia, Jerusalem, and her husband's struggle for survival, she must confront her guilt and desires. A novel about resilience, affection, and the decisions that change destinies.

With a dark and captivating style, Edgardo Scott offers a novel that delves into the mind of a serial killer as a metaphor for contemporary society. Evil becomes language in a fragmented and disturbing story, where desire, violence, and emotional exile trace a path to the abyss.

Between essay, chronicle, and personal memoir, Federico Lorenz brings together moments in which the world seemed to stop—or speed up—to reveal something. A compendium of enduring days that have forged humanity's memory, intertwined with the echoes of a life experience.

The word as song, connection, and resistance. In these texts, Dani Zelko and Caístulo —Wichí chief—construct an ancestral poetics that traverses language, oral tradition, and territory. A work that transcends conventional language and proposes a radical listening to other species, trees, and dreams.

Far from fantasies about AI autonomy, Matteo Pasquinelli offers a critical and Marxist perspective: algorithms replicate forms of work and social organization. This is essential reading for thinking about technology from its political and material perspective.

Published posthumously, this novel by Jujuy-born writer Libertad Demitrópulos is a fierce and poetic work set on the fringes of northern Argentina in the 1990s. With prose of great symbolic force, the author portrays characters on the edge: smugglers, murderers, nuns, and traffickers who cross the physical and existential border in a territory marked by violence, ancestral religiosity, and the desperate search for freedom.

More than an essay on writing, this book is an intimate dialogue between the author and his shadow. Luis Mey exposes with brutal honesty the creative process, the emptiness, the doubts, and the persistence that writing entails. A literary confession where the craft becomes a vital act.

What lies behind the promises that accompany every new technological advancement? In this essay, Esteban Magnani questions the dominant discourse surrounding terms such as blockchain, NFTs, the metaverse, and artificial intelligence. With a critical eye, he dissects the marketing strategies, business interests, and social effects of digital innovations in an attempt to understand the hidden logic that drives the "invisible hand" of the algorithm.

This collective volume analyzes how meanings were constructed and transmitted around the deaths of sports figures such as Jorge Newbery, Gatica, Monzón, and Maradona. Through funeral rituals, posthumous speeches, and biographies, the authors explore the relationship between sport, nation, media, and memory. An original approach that allows us to read the country's history through the lens of its deceased idols.

This book brings together eleven essays by Julián Herbert that explore writing as a way of understanding the world. With references to Zen Buddhism, cognitive poetics, and the intersection of the personal and the collective, the author displays an agile, erudite, and provocative style. The essay as a genre here becomes a playground for reflection and literary criticism.