¡De Panzazo!

Literary Nonfiction. Spanish Language Text. Biography and memoir. Latino/Latina Studies. The long-awaited Spanish-language version of Trevino Hart's award-winning BAREFOOT HEART is a vivid account of growing up in a family of migrant farmworkers. This timely story based on Trevino Hart's own experiences starkly reveals the obstacles and challenges faced by field workers as they navigate a difficult life that is often in a hostile environment. CORAZÓN DESCALZO recounts how the author overcame adversity and disadvantage, discovered her true talents, and in the process found herself.

La via XX Settembre, en el corazón de Palermo, es donde, en 1958, se va a vivir la familia Agnello. El pequeño mundo formado por tíos, primos, per- sonal de servicio, amigos y parientes constituye un microcosmos que es ob- servado con la mirada atenta de la autora. Como telón de fondo, una ciudad donde a las heridas de la guerra se añaden otras más devastadoras si cabe: las de la especulación urbanística. Palermo, espléndida y miserable, seduce a Simonetta. La ciudad se le revela al mismo tiempo que ella se revela a sí misma, a través de un mundo compacto, solidario, de la...

In 1666 Exquemeling left for America from the port of Le Havre onboard a ship of the French Company of the West Indies. The ship was captured by pirates and Exquemeling was sold into slavery on the island of Tortuga. During his captivity he learned from his master how to perform surgery. He served under the distinguished pirates L'Olonnais, Morgan, and Bertrand d'Oregon until the failed landing on the west coast of Puerto Rico, in 1674. He also participated in sieges on land: he fought in the two Maracaibo assaults on the island of Santa Catalina and in the devastation of Panama. Los piratas...

The memoirs of Ariadna Efron have informed all important studies of Marina Tsvetaeva’s writing and are indispensable to a complete understanding of her life and work. Never before translated into English, these memoirs provide the insider’s view of Tsvetaeva’s daughter and "first reader." No Love Without Poetry gives us Efron’s wrenching story of the difficulty of living with genius. The hardships imposed by early twentieth-century Russian political upheaval placed incredible strain on her already fraught, intense relationship with her mother. Efron recounts the family’s travels...