Literature suggestions. Here are the books you can't miss in April

A As the sun and temperatures increase, the terraces and beaches become more and more attractive. Equip yourself with your book and enjoy this spring with a taste of summer.

These are our suggestions:

‘Cleopatra and Frankenstein’ by Coco Mellors

Aurora Editora

New York is slipping through Cleo’s fingers, who has fled England in search of her place in the city that never sleeps. Despite going from party to party every night, she barely knows anyone. Her student visa is ending when she meets Frank, twenty years her senior, with a successful life and all the excesses Cleo lacks. It offers you the opportunity to be happy, the freedom to paint and the possibility to apply for a resident visa. It offers you a life imbued with beauty, art and, perhaps, a reason to cut back on your alcohol consumption. He’s everything she needs right now.

Cleo and Frank impulsively get married without foreseeing that it will irreversibly change both their lives and those of everyone around them, whether it’s Cleo’s best friend trying to understand her gender identity, or Frank’s financially dependent sister who starts dating older men when he runs out of money, or even Cleo and Frank, who are discovering the trials of marriage and mental illness.

A debut novel about the spontaneous decisions that shape our lives and the imperfect relationships that are born in unexpectedly perfect nights.

‘Tears in the Market’ by Michelle Zauner

Aurora Editora

On a winding path to discover who she is — and where and how she should be —, only the death of her mother, from cancer, when Zauner was 25 years old, seemed to put her, finally, in touch with her own identity, with her tastes, language, culture and music that are their Korean heritage. Everything her mother had left her.

‘Tears in the Market’ is a lively and frank account, like a suit leafing through a family album.

‘Rui Pinto: The hacker who shook the world of football’, by Nuno Tiago Pinto

Objective

From the origins of Football Leaks and Luanda Leaks to missed targets and unknown victims, this is the story of one of the biggest thefts of confidential information in the last decade, told by a journalist who has investigated the case over the past five years.

‘I Want to Die, But I Also Want to Eat Tteokbokki’ by Baek Sehee

War and peace

‘I Want to Die, but I Also Want to Eat Tteokbokki’, takes place between the scent of comfort food and the harrowing odor of existentialism. The self-fiction of the young South Korean author Baek Sehee asks for a reflection on mental health.

The record follows twelve weeks of psychotherapy with a ‘young adult’, enriched by “micro-essays” about “dark emotions” and “pathetic details” of her life. A sales phenomenon in South Korea, ‘I Want to Die, But I Also Want to Eat Tteokbokki’ is conquering the world and is already one of the books of choice for RM, one of the members of the K-pop band BTS.

‘What if I died tomorrow?’, by Filipa Fonseca Silva

Sum of Letters

Helena is a seemingly peaceful seventy-nine-year-old widow. She lives with her cat in an apartment, independent of her adult children and grandchildren, enjoying excellent physical and mental health. Until the day when, by accident, she sets the living room on fire.

Forced to move in with her daughter, who begins to question her sanity, ends up revealing a secret that will leave the whole family stunned: after all, she has an active sex life. Very active. Based on this confidence, Helena tells us about her love adventures and the life motto she has adopted since the death of her husband, with whom she shared more than four decades of discontent.

‘What if I die tomorrow?’ is a hilarious novel, which makes us reflect on prejudices towards older women and the huge taboo around their sexuality.

‘Everything is Rio’, by Carla Madeira

Private Publisher

Lucy and the couple Dalva and Venâncio star in a love triangle that moves away from the commonplaces of novels and makes us question the true limits of forgiveness, how far the intensity of love can go, what values is the importance of family and how strong can be the affection between women.