Books like La velocidad de la luz by Javier Cercas

A collection of linked short stories that follows a platoon of American soldiers and their experiences, thoughts, and burdens during the Vietnam War.

John Irving’s narrative follows two eleven‑year‑old boys in New Hampshire whose friendship is shattered when a foul ball kills one boy’s mother. The survivor, Owen Meany, believes he is a divine instrument, and the novel traces the impact of that belief on his life and the lives of those around him.

An elderly man in his nineties, living in Barcelona, a Holocaust survivor who gave hundreds of speeches, granted dozens of interviews, received important national honors, and even moved government officials to tears. But in May 2005, Marco was exposed as a fraud: he was never in a Nazi concentration camp.

Detective Derek Strange hunts the killer of his brother in a turbulent Washington, D.C., setting that echoes Vietnam War themes and explores crime, family loyalty and justice.

Paco Sullivan survives a devastating Viet Cong attack on Fire Base Harriette, only to return home broken—physically and mentally. Struggling with trauma, he seeks a job and peace in Boone, Texas, while haunted by war’s ghosts.

"Javier Cercas quería escribir una novela sobre 23 F, pero tras reunir toda la información existente sobre ese momento decisivo de la reciente historia de España, se dio cuenta que ninguna ficción podía hacer justicia al material que tenía entre manos. Así a partir de un iinstante que reúne tres gestos valientes, el de Adolfo Suárez, el de Gutiérrez Mellado y el de Santiago Carrillo, que en medio de las balas disparadas por los secuestradores del congreso se resistieron a lanzarse al suelo eel día del golpe de estado, Cercas arma un extraordinario relato, usando ese instante como una mirilla a través de la cual se puede contemplar una época y un país. Con un conocimiento absoluto de las fuentes documentales y un magistral dominio de las herramientas y los recursos del narrador, logra enhebrar en un libro fascinante, la mejor crónica de una jornada decisiva, logrando que al repasar los hechos de aquel día y los acontecimientos que llevaron a él, el lector se sumerja en un tiempo, un ambiente y unas circunstancias. Sin duda alguna estamos ante la obra fundamental de la transición española"--Librairie hispa.

Andrés Segovia becomes an orphan when a car accident kills his parents. Forced to move to Mexico with his siblings, he struggles with identity before returning to the U.S., where a therapeutic relationship with Grace Delgado unravels hidden truths about his family.