Perros en invierno

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...

La increíble historia real de Witold Pilecki, el único hombre que entró en Auschwitz por decisión propia para sabotear el campo desde dentro y conseguir información. PREMIO COSTA AL MEJOR LIBRO DE NO FICCIÓN DEL AÑO. MÁS DE 150.000 EJEMPLARES VENDIDOS.

GARDEL es una biografía magistral que está a la altura de un artista brillante. Un trabajo minucioso y extraordinario que, manufacturado con la destreza y el sello prestigioso de Felipe Pigna, relata la vida de un artista único, que, por si fuera poco, tuvo una vida fascinante. La gloria y la tragedia. El talento y las historias inolvidables. La música del alma. Como bien anticipa el autor en la introducción: "Tenía muchas ganas de escribir esta historia, quizás una historia argentina entre 1890 y 1935, des-de Gardel, desde su vida y su obra, hablando necesariamente de la historia del...

When I saw her again later, I revised my first judgment. I fell under the spell of her "Maori charm." Notwithstanding all the intermixture, the Tahitian type was still very pure in her. And then the memory of her ancestor, the great chief Tati, gave her as well as her brother and all her family an appearance of truly imposing grandeur. She had the majestic sculptural form of her race, ample and at the same time gracious. The arms were like the two columns of a temple, simple, straight; and the whole bodily form with the long horizontal line of the shoulder, and the vast height terminating...