Victor Clares, from Ladilla Rusa, recommends a book that will turn your stomach.

Barcelona"It's the last book I read," says Barcelona native Víctor F. Clares, one of the members of Ladilla Rusa, the band he shares with Tania Lozano and with which he's touring the country on a summer concert tour. Despite having a full schedule and being up and down, he still finds time to read. He read a lot since he was little, and explains that his love for reading intensified during his adolescence with the discovery ofAmélie Nothomb, the Belgian writer who can make your stomach churn. However, today she recommends The good evil, by Argentine Samanta Schweblin, a read that reminded her a lot of the feeling she had with Nothomb.

She says she came across the book thanks to a journalist: "I really like reading short stories, and it's been a while since I've done so." The good evil is a collection of six short stories that explore the fragility of everyday reality and the tension between the need for connection and the feeling of isolation. "There's a very intimate tension in the stories, and they're very well written," says Clares, who came to the author with her latest published book, but assures that she will continue reading her. She also explains that writing short stories is "very demanding because the writer must manage what they explain well, and the reader must do their part to understand what isn't said." In addition to Schweblin, she also recommends another Argentine writer, Mariana Enriquez, one of the most powerful voices in contemporary Latin American horror literature.

Clares doesn't have a reading schedule; she reads before bed or while traveling. Her favorite writer is John Cheever, considered one of the best American short story writers and recognized with the Pulitzer Prize for his horror stories.The Stories of John Cheever (1978).