El cuaderno de Sara

Quise traer hacia muchos lo que el Senor me ha dado, y en todo esto usted podra escoger lo mejor para su vida, yo solo quiero ser fiel. Dios ha obrado a traves de todo el tiempo esta obrando y seguira aun despues que nosotros muramos, y que El es el unico que permanece. Todo lo que me ha acontecido no es para guardarlo, sino que en todo esto usted pueda ver la gloria de Dios obrando. Esto no es solo para mi, sino que esta guardado y reservado para todos los que les buscan y hacen su voluntad. Un angel me ha guiado, con la vara me ha corregido, con el cayado me ha acercado a el, en su palabra...

Thirty years ago Piri Thomas made literary history with this lacerating, lyrical memoir of his coming of age on the streets of Spanish Harlem. Here was the testament of a born outsider: a Puerto Rican in English-speaking America; a dark-skinned morenito in a family that refused to acknowledge its African blood. Here was an unsparing document of Thomas's plunge into the deadly consolations of drugs, street fighting, and armed robbery--a descent that ended when the twenty-two-year-old Piri was sent to prison for shooting a cop. As he recounts the journey that took him from adolescence in El...

Lola Alvarez Bravo was Mexico's first woman photographer, and her career is exceptional both for its remarkable range and for the compelling quality of her work. Approaching photography from multiple angles, she worked as a photojournalist, commercial photographer, and professional portraitist, while also creating intensely personal images of people, places, and things throughout her native Mexico. In addition, she played a vital role in the Mexican cultural scene, as an inspiring teacher of photography, as friend of innumerable artists and writers (many of whom she photographed), and as...

Ganador del Premio James Tait Black Memorial, este estudio sobre la vida y la obra de Virginia Woolf —en una nueva versión revisada y ampliada por la autora— pretende «articular una narración capaz de rastrear —tan íntimamente como permita la autenticidad— el flujo de memoria e imaginación a lo largo de toda una vida, de manera que veamos a Virginia Woolf tal como ella misma se veía», señala Lyndall Gordon. Su infancia, su relación con su padre, su feminismo, su sexualidad y su matrimonio, el círculo de Bloomsbury, sus crisis nerviosas, las convenciones victorianas, la...