La Hija de Fela y Aladino

La novela que ha inspirado la película. La historia de Mariane y Danniel Pearl podría haber sido inventada por una mente retorcida y capaz de escribir la tragedia más inconcebible. Sin embargo, este drama es real. Sucedió en Karachi, Pakistán, en enero de

Pasó haciendo el bien son las palabras con que san Pedro resume la vida de Jesucristo. Magnífico extracto de una vida breve, de un destino único: el Hijo de Dios, Dios mismo hecho Hombre, dedicó los días y todos los instantes de su existencia terrena para hacer el bien. No solo cuando curaba milagrosamente a enfermos, ciegos o leprosos, sino cuando trabajaba y predicaba, dialogaba con hombres pobres y ricos, con amigos, maestros de la ley y publicanos; cuando recorría los senderos de Palestina.

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...

The visceral and carnal Pedro Juan Gutiérrez reviews his busy life and his provocative work, his influences and his working methods... Pedro Juan interviews Pedro Juan. The writer makes an agile and exhaustive review of his life and his work in which nothing is left in the pipeline. And, if we talk about Pedro Juan Gutiérrez, life and work intersect and interact until they merge in the trajectory of this author. In these pages he evokes his early first steps as a loving child poet in Matanzas, the discovery of sex and masturbation, life on the streets, his youth in the harshest and most...