Florencia (Así no era mi plan 1)

In the shadow of the Sangre de Cristo Mountains, New Mexico’s Mora Valley harbors the ghosts of history: troubadours and soldiers, Plains Indians and settlers, families fleeing and finding home. There, more than a century ago, villagers collect scraps of paper documenting the valley’s history and their identity—military records, travelers’ diaries, newspaper articles, poetry, and more—and bind them into a leather portfolio known as “The Book of Archives.” When a bomb blast during the Mexican-American War scatters the book’s contents to the wind, the memory of the accounts...

While Carmen de Burgos (Almeria 1867-Madrid 1932) belonged to the Generation of '98 in terms of her age, she is really too modern and progressive a figure for this categorization. A journalist, author, translator and progressive feminist intellectual, de Burgos was one of the most widely-read writers of her time. When she died she left a body of work impressive both in its quantity and quality: 12 full length and approximately 57 short novels. "La rampa" (1917) is the second full-length novel by Carmen de Burgos, and is dedicated -to all of the throngs of wounded and lost women who have come...

¿Qué hace una nave guerrera escribiendo poesía? Algún giro del viento debió llevar a cientos de guerreros a recorrer caminos inimaginables antes de atracar en Ítaca a bordo de estas naves. Trirreme no es un guerrero, pero como cualquiera de nosotros, tiene heridas. A través de estas páginas nos adentramos en una historia que no acaba de llegar a su fin y, precisamente por ello, es apasionante. Lee, cierra los ojos, respira y vuelve a leer.

Una mujer lucha por sacar adelante a su familia mientras el amor y la amistad se abren paso en tiempos de guerra.