These were the ten best -selling books of 2021 in Colombia

Tras finalizar el 2021 la Librería Nacional presentó la lista de los libros más leídos del año pasado. Autores como Juan Gabriel Vásquez, John Katzenbach, Pilar Quintana, Isabel Allende y Carlos Jaramillo figuraron todo el año en las listas de los más vendidos en las categorías de ficción y no ficción.

These were the ten best -selling books of 2021, according to the National Bookstore

‘Look back’, by Juan Gabriel Vásquez

In October 2016, Colombian film director Sergio Cabrera traveled to Barcelona to a retrospective of his films. It is a difficult time, because his father, Fausto Cabrera, has just died; His marriage is in crisis, and his country has rejected peace agreements that would have allowed him to end more than fifty years of war. Throughout a few revealing days, Sergio will remember the facts that marked his life and his father's life. From the Spanish Civil War to exile in America of his Republican family, from the China of the Cultural Revolution to the armed movements of the sixties, the reader will attend a life that is much more than a great adventure: it is an image of medium century of history that upset the entire world. Backing back tells real facts, but only in the hands of a masterful novelist like Vásquez could become this devastating portrait of a family dragged by the forces of history. A fascinating social and at the same time intimate, political and at the same time private, that the reader will not forget.

‘Los Abismos’, by Pilar Quintana

The abysses «enter the darkness of the world of adults through the point of view of a girl who, from the memory of her family life, tries to understand the conflictive relationship between her parents.With the backdrop of a female world of women tied to the wheel of a Noria of which they cannot or do not know howprotagonist.With a subtle and luminous prose in which nature connects us with the symbolic possibilities of literature, and the abysses are both real and those of intimacy. »

‘My soul women’, by Isabel Allende

In women of my soul, the great Chilean author invites us to accompany her on this personal and emotional journey where she reviews her link with feminism from childhood until today.She remembers some essential women in her life, such as her longing for her Panchita, Paula or Agent Carmen Balcells;relevant writers such as Virginia Woolf or Margaret Atwood;To young artists who agglutinate the rebellion of her generation or, among many others, to those anonymous women who have suffered violence and that full of dignity and courage rose and advance ...-.They are the ones that inspire him so much and have accompanied him throughout her life: her woman's soul.

‘The metabolic miracle’ and ‘like: the art of eating to be fine’, by Carlos Jaramillo

This is a book for all people who want to learn to eat well, because eating for eating, just to fill your stomach, it is the worst damage you can do to your health.Each bite of food that leads to your mouth will be valuable or dangerous information for your body, so it should become an expert of your own nutrition and thus learn to choose well, conscientiously and avoid everything that can get sick.

‘The 5 in the morning club’, Robin Sharma

Robin Sharma is one of the greatest world experts in leadership and performance.He developed the concept of the club of 5 in the morning more than twenty years ago from the revolutionaries habits that have allowed its customers to increase their productivity;Improve your health and face the extremely complex time in which we live.This book, with a deep personal impact, will discover the routines that have made it possible for many people to reach great results while our happiness and vitality increases.

‘What to do with these pieces’, by Piedad Bonnett

A stark portrait of marriage life, old age and family relationships.At sixty -four, Emilia faces the remodeling of her kitchen.Her husband has decided on her account, without making too many consultations, and she, who only wants to be submerged in her books and her writing, feels unable to oppose resistance.In the midst of a suffocating domestic atmosphere, which appears tranquility but is loaded with small gestures of violence, the days of this woman that not only faces the old age that threatens her father, but also her own, does not only take a balance ofHis life and his ambiguous intimate relationships.With a resounding prose that remembers his poetry, and pushed by fierce authenticity, Piedad Bonnett builds a semblance of the placid and dangerous dissatisfaction, and of women cornered by very different types of abuse, from the minimum and imperceptible, even the most obvious and lethal.

‘The infinity in a reed’, by Irene Vallejo

In this exquisite work on the origins of the book, Irene Vallejo travels through the history of the amazing artifact that was born five millennia ago, when the Egyptians discovered the potential of a reed they called "papyrus."With great sensitivity and narrative ease, the author goes back to Alejandro's battlefields, the palaces of Cleopatra, the first bookstores and the handwritten workshops, but also visits the fires where prohibited codices burned, the Sarajevo library and theOxford underground labyrinth in 2000. Times merge into the collective adventure of those who have only conceived life in the company of the written word.And this essay ends up prolonging the infinite dialogue that speaks so masterfully.

‘The Psychopaths Club’, by John Katzenbach

A police officer destined for minor work in traffic accidents lights his computer and meets the brutal image of a woman who has murdered by laughing.Accompanying the photo, a strange message tells you that it is not a virus, but an intentional shipment.The authors are a group of hackers who act on the Deep Web and call themselves "Jack's boys", tribute to Jack the Ripper.In addition to committing atrocious crimes, they have fun sending samples to police from all over the world, as if they were untouchable.But the same afternoon in which they have sent the photo to the traffic officer, someone sneaks into the encrypted virtual room of meetings of him.Someone who watches them, has thirst for revenge for a long time and may be smarter than them.

‘Arsène Lupin: Knight and Thief’, by Maurice Leblanc

The famous Ganimard policeman believes having fulfilled his greatest mission: Orsene Lupin has finally been arrested and remains at a good collection in the Santé prison.But it is precisely that he thinks he has arrested that he should distrust and be more attentive than ever, because the enigmatic lupine, the gentleman who does not operate but in castles and rooms, the man of the thousand costumes, never gives up, and changes his suit, of address, face and writing;He knows all the secret passages, fixes quotes with his victims before stealing them, but also returns to the great Sherlock Holmes the clock he has borrowed and a lady, her jewels, with a bouquet of flowers.

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