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Trejo: mi vida de crimen, redención y Hollywood (Atria Espanol Ser.)
Par Danny Trejo. 2021
"Memoir of a character actor mostly known for roles as tough guys and villains. He shares stories of his early…
life of violence, addiction, and incarceration in some of California's most infamous prisons. He emerged from prison to become a drug counselor and mentor, while gaining acclaim as an actor." -- Provided by NLSVuelos vespertinos (Colección Argumentos (Editorial Anagrama) #564)
Par Helen Macdonald. 2021
"In Vesper Flights Helen Macdonald brings together a collection of her best loved essays, along with new pieces on topics…
ranging from nostalgia for a vanishing countryside to the tribulations of farming ostriches to her own private vespers while trying to fall asleep. Meditating on notions of captivity and freedom, immigration and flight, Helen invites us into her most intimate experiences: observing songbirds from the Empire State Building as they migrate through the Tribute of Light, watching tens of thousands of cranes in Hungary, seeking the last golden orioles in Suffolk's poplar forests. She writes with heart-tugging clarity about wild boar, swifts, mushroom hunting, migraines, the strangeness of birds' nests, and the unexpected guidance and comfort we find when watching wildlife. By one of this century's most important and insightful nature writers, Vesper Flights is a captivating and foundational book about observation, fascination, time, memory, love and loss and how we make sense of the world around us." -- Goodreads"La Malinche, a foundational figure in the history of Mexico, has been adorned with the halo of suspicion that enveloped…
Eve after her expulsion from paradise; condemned to silence and turned into one of the most frequent characters of Creole writing. Deified by some and demonized by others, she has inspired tragedies, romantic dramas, chronicles, poems and even cartoons. Like all mythical and historical characters, it is necessary to revisit her periodically, delve into our roots, review the mestizaje and rethink her present and past wanderings to clarify the multiple meanings of one of the most powerful cultural enigmas in Mexico and Latin America. This volume brings together the memories of the colloquium entitled La Malinche, her Parents and Children, with the participation of Carlos Monsiváis, Roger Bartra, Hernán Lara Zavala, among other well-known writers; and two new essays on this controversial character: a panoramic look at the myths, uses and customs that have consolidated Malintzin as the paradigm par excellence of mestizaje." -- Translation provided by NLSLas guerras globales del agua: privatización y fracking
Par Alfredo Jalife-Rahme. 2021
"Just as the 20th century was the era of the "oil/gas wars" that were part of the superpowers' geostrategic games,…
the 21st century is oriented towards the "global water wars" that have already begun in some areas of the planet, full of sea water and, paradoxically, where most humans are thirsty." -- Translation provided by NLSHistoria mínima de la revolución cubana (Historia mínima (Mexico City, Mexico))
Par Rafael Rojas. 2018
"A brief and complete history of recent Cuba, from the generalized struggle against the dictator Batista in 1956 until the…
approval of the socialist Constitution in 1976. The Cuban Revolution was a decisive event in Latin American history in the second half of the 20th century. The Cold War consolidated Cuba as an international political actor, as Cuban leaders supported guerrillas in other countries in order to spread the revolution. The institutionalization of the revolutionary regime was a slow process full of twists and turns, conditioned by both internal and external factors." -- Translation provided by NLSNuestra hambre en la Habana: memorias del Período Especial en la Cuba de los 90
Par Enrique Del Risco. 2022
"|Our Hunger in Havana| is a book of personal memories of the 90s Cuban postwar period of peace that received…
the curious euphemism of "Special Period." In a tragicomic tone, the author describes and explains the debacle that brought cats and banana skins to the status of delicacies, pigs to that of urban pets raised in bathtubs, and the practical disappearance of public transportation, gastronomy, and alcoholic beverages. A national catastrophe told through the personal experiences of one who worked in a school, a museum, and a cemetery while trying to be young, free, and happy at the worst time in Cuba's history." -- Translation provided by NLSJuan de Juanes: escritores, editores, agentes literarios y otras glorias y calamidades
Par Sergio Ramírez. 2014
"Memory is also a sort of homage to the friends who have accompanied us throughout life, those with whom we…
share a table, books, travels and, in the case of Sergio Ramirez, revolution. In Juan de Juanes' vast map of memories, Ramirez traces the route that takes us from his beginnings as a writer, the triumph of the Sandinista revolution in his native Nicaragua, the Alfaguara Prize in 1998, to the awarding of the 2011 José Donoso Ibero-American Literature Prize, a few days before the suicide of the Chilean writer's only heir, Pilar Donoso. In the pages of Juan de Juanes, Sergio Ramírez tells us about memorable characters in his life, to whom he remained indebted, among others Carlos Fuentes, Julio Cortázar, Augusto Monterroso, Gabriel García Márquez, Jorge Luis Borges, Ernesto Cardenal and Juan Cruz, his first editor and the starting point of this journey through Latin America." -- Translation provided by NLSGastronomía e imperio: la cocina en la historia del mundo (Sección de obras de historia)
Par Rachel Laudan. 2020
"Cuisine and Empire shows how merchants, missionaries, and the military took cuisines over mountains, oceans, deserts, and across political frontiers.…
Laudan's innovative narrative treats cuisine, like language, clothing, or architecture, as something constructed by humans. By emphasizing how cooking turns farm products into food and by taking the globe rather than the nation as the stage, she challenges the agrarian, romantic, and nationalistic myths that underlie the contemporary food movement." -- GoodreadsA sangre y fuego con Pancho Villa (Vida y pensamiento de Mexico)
Par Juan Bautista Vargas Arreola. 1988
Alegría y tradición: fiestas populares tradicionales cubanas
Par Virtudes Feliu Herrera. 2018
"Joy and Tradition: Traditional Cuban Folk Festivals, is the first work that offers the reader broad and detailed information related…
to the traditional festivities of our people, an example of popular culture collectively conceived, both material and spiritual. This topic is part of the scientific work Ethnographic Atlas of Cuba, Cuban Traditional Popular Culture, which has allowed for the recovery of peasant festivities, immigrants' festivities, carnivals, parades and brass bands, street dances, belonging to absent citizens, laborers and others, at the Municipal level. The present edition updates the research collected in the text published in 2013 under the title Fiestas y Tradiciones Cubanas and is the first study that focuses on the classification, conceptualization, ethnic origin, the evolutionary process and calendar of all the country's festivals. It also provides a review of each group of them, their geographic location and current manifestation, which represents, perhaps like no other, the characteristics of the Cuban, who by his idiosyncrasy is cheerful, festive, always ready to share in an atmosphere of revelry, hence the quantity and diversity of Cuban festivals." -- Translation provided by NLSAguas de estuario
Par Velia Vidal. 2020
"In these letters, Velia Vidal recounts her wanderings since she returned to the Chocó region of Colombia, to the Pacific…
Ocean, and devoted herself to the promotion of reading and culture. Incorporating elements from her surroundings, she elaborates metaphors that account for her internal tide and the tensions between the center and the periphery. Through writing, the author constructs a personal history and geography." -- Translation provided by NLSPuño y letra (Biblioteca breve (Santiago, Chile))
Par Diamela Eltit. 2014
"In Handwriting, Eltit offers her reading of the Argentine trial of Enrique Arancibia Clavel for his participation in the assassination…
of General Prats and his wife, Sofía Cuthbert. The work's main concept is the literal transcription of documents generated by third parties, but also considers three brief texts, written in her own handwriting, that explain the book's motives and allow two reflections. The first, linked to her narrative staging of the book, to the use of third-party documents, and their function in the literary act; the second focuses on the documents' content that reveals the motives of one of so many political crimes executed during the Pinochet dictatorship." -- Translation provided by NLSJulia de Burgos: la creación de un ícono Puertorriqueño
Par Vanessa Pérez Rosario. 2022
"Vanessa Pérez-Rosario examines poet and political activist Julia de Burgos's development as a writer, her experience of migration, and her…
legacy in New York City, the poet's home after 1940. Pérez-Rosario situates Julia de Burgos as part of a transitional generation that helps to bridge the historical divide between Puerto Rican nationalist writers of the 1930s and the Nuyorican writers of the 1970s. Becoming Julia de Burgos departs from the prevailing emphasis on the poet and intellectual as a nationalist writer to focus on her contributions to New York Latino/a literary and visual culture. It moves beyond the standard tragedy-centered narratives of de Burgos's life to place her within a nuanced historical understanding of Puerto Rico's peoples and culture to consider more carefully the complex history of the island and the diaspora. Pérez-Rosario unravels the cultural and political dynamics at work when contemporary Latina/o writers and artists in New York revise, reinvent, and riff off of Julia de Burgos as they imagine new possibilities for themselves and their communities." -- GoodreadsManual de supervivencia: Chernobil, una guía para el futuro
Par Kate Brown. 2020
"Drawing on a decade of archival research and on-the-ground interviews in Ukraine, Russia, and Belarus, Kate Brown unveils the full…
breadth of the devastation and the whitewash that followed. Her findings make clear the irreversible impact of man-made radioactivity on every living thing; and hauntingly, they force us to confront the untold legacy of decades of weapons-testing and other nuclear incidents, and the fact that we are emerging into a future for which the survival manual has yet to be written." -- GoodreadsVHS: (unas memorias)
Par Alberto Fuguet. 2017
"Alberto Fuguet returns to non-fiction in VHS to tell the story of his adolescence and youth in the 70s and…
80s, marked by his unleashed love for cinema, while discovering the city and living his sexual awakening and his professional beginnings in an intense way. Analyzing the films of his life and the career of some of his favorite filmmakers and actors, such as Matt Dillon and Jacqueline Bisset, commenting on the art of the poster and the tagline, recalling his trips to the old movie theaters or the video stores that invaded Santiago three decades ago, telling hot anecdotes of his time in the media and reflecting on the disco and pop wave, Fuguet manages to articulate a funny and at the same time emotional, fragmentary and coherent, cheeky and versatile book, which draws on verses, photos and personal archives." -- Translation provided by NLSHistoria mínima de Argentina (Historia mínima (Mexico City, Mexico))
Par Raúl Mandrini. 2018
"This book proposes a general approach to the Argentine past. It is an authentic synthesis effort that reconstructs the great…
avenues of a history in which politics, economy, society and culture are interwoven. The journey begins with the first human settlements thousands of years ago, and closes with the debates, conflicts and challenges that Argentina is going through at the end of the first decade of the 21st century. This broad chronology unfolds according to four moments: the original populations; the colonial period; the process of independence and national organization; and finally the contemporary era and the immediate past." -- Translation provided by NLSIluminando: al compás del silencio
Par Luis Felipe Passalacqua. 2020
"A book that takes us beyond any paradigm, dogma or charismatic authority, directing us towards an understanding of the pure…
Self. Between stories, inspiring reflections and revelations, we are immersed in a sea of possibilities for our evolution and freedom as people, as Souls. This interesting and unique compilation of ideas, narratives and affirmations takes us down shadowy paths, where we are encouraged to confront the learned and the intuitive, to visit ourselves without being sly. Luis Felipe, anxious to "see" new seeds germinate on the fertile surface of the conscience of all those who are not afraid to evolve, offers us several paths. His firm, palpable push invites us to explore with curiosity an infinite and permanent reality. A provocative invitation to enjoy his astonishing worldview and life perspective." -- Translation provided by NLSHistoria mínima de México (Historia mínima (Mexico City, Mexico))
Par Daniel Cosío Villegas. 2021
"This classic from El Colegio de México is republished 44 years after its first edition. The events that have left…
their mark on the history of Mexico are recorded in these pages, from the uncertain steps of its first settlers, in pre-Hispanic times, to the also uncertain steps of those who went through the crisis of the eighties in the twentieth century. Between this and that, the reader can follow the course of the viceregal era, the formative period of independent Mexico, the modern stretch of the restored Republic and the Porfiriato, the Revolution and the years of 'political stability and economic progress.'" -- Translation provided by NLSZapata y la Revolución mexicana (Sección de obras de historia)
Par John Womack. 2017
"This essential volume recalls the activities of Emiliano Zapata (1879-1919), a leading figure in the Mexican Revolution; he formed and…
commanded an important revolutionary force during this conflict. Womack focuses attention on Zapata's activities and his home state of Morelos during the Revolution. Zapata quickly rose from his position as a peasant leader in a village seeking agrarian reform. Zapata's dedication to the cause of land rights made him a hero to the people. Womack describes the contributing factors and conditions preceding the Mexican Revolution, creating a narrative that examines political and agrarian transformations on local and national levels." -- GoodreadsHistoria mínima de Colombia (Historia mínima (Mexico City, Mexico))
Par Jorge Orlando Melo. 2019
"Colombia has been described as a legalistic and militaristic country, with a democratic and civilian tradition, but at the same…
time violent and repressive. An isolated country with a slow economic development, but with a successful economic policy that never fell into populist temptations. A weak State unable to occupy the entire territory, although controlled by an authoritarian and repressive oligarchy. A country with advanced social movements and guerrilla groups active for half a century, but with a strict liberal policy and an electorate without leftist temptations. Since 1930, the tension between liberals and conservatives, as well as the guerrilla uprising since 1958, led Colombia to high violence." -- Translation provided by NLS