El Célebre Cubano

Philip Norman's family considered themselves genteel yet somehow became involved in the opportunistic world of seaside trade on the Isle of Wight. With masterly skill, Norman recreates his upbringing among this gallery of social misfits - his handsome but unstable father Clive, once a dashing RAF officer, now a reluctant showman at the end of Ryde Pier, his pub-owning Uncle Phil, who dresses as a woman every New Year's Eve, and his irresistible Grandma Norman who presides over her rock kiosk and rules the troubled family like a Mafia don. The year is 1953. While Britain celebrates the...

Al preparar los captulos de mi primer libro Levntate Mujer, No ms abuso fluan a mi mente los actos de violencia que haba vivido. Ahora, eran como una metamorfosis dando a luz proyectos preventivos para las familias afectadas por la violencia domstica. Es una jornada de sobrevivencia de la autora Rev. Luz C. Pizarro, a los veintitrs aos confront la trgica muerte de su esposo. Un segundo matrimonio abusivo y tuvo que refugiarse con sus hijos menores en la Casa Protegida Julia de Burgos, en su pas natal Puerto Rico. Sus conflictos, la fe que recin profesaba ya que era atea o quitarle la vida al...

Sobre la base de una documentación rigurosa y en gran parte inédita, Roque narra la vida del presidente Sáenz Peña, al que se recuerda por la ley electoral que lleva su nombre y por la invocación "América para la Humanidad", del discurso de Washington.

More has been written about Lorca than about any other Spanish writer except Cervantes. In an attempt to explain when, how and why one of the most important poets of the 20th century was murdered, Ian Gibson's exhaustive research tries to uncover the truth about one of Spain's Civil War's biggest mysteries ? the death by shooting of Federico Garc?a Lorca by Nationalist thugs. Gibson's biography of Lorca is currently the front-runner for the definitive Lorca biography.