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Nueve lunas
Par Gabriela Wiener. 2021
"From the daring Peruvian essayist and provocateur behind Sexographies comes a fierce and funny exploration of sex, pregnancy, and motherhood…
that delves headlong into our fraught fascination with human reproduction." -- Amazon.comNuestra 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 NLSEl hombre que movía las nubes: memorias
Par Ingrid Rojas Contreras. 2022
"For Ingrid Rojas Contreras, magic runs in the family. Raised amid the political violence of 1980s and '90s Colombia, in…
a house bustling with her mother's fortune-telling clients, she was a hard child to surprise. Her maternal grandfather, Nono, was a renowned curandero, a community healer gifted with what the family called "the secrets": the power to talk to the dead, tell the future, treat the sick, and move the clouds. And as the first woman to inherit "the secrets," Rojas Contreras' mother was just as powerful. Mami delighted in her ability to appear in two places at once, and she could cast out even the most persistent spirits with nothing more than a glass of water. This legacy had always felt like it belonged to her mother and grandfather, until, while living in the U.S. in her twenties, Rojas Contreras suffered a head injury that left her with amnesia. As she regained partial memory, her family was excited to tell her that this had happened before: Decades ago Mami had taken a fall that left her with amnesia, too. And when she recovered, she had gained access to "the secrets." In 2012, spurred by a shared dream among Mami and her sisters, and her own powerful urge to relearn her family history in the aftermath of her memory loss, Rojas Contreras joins her mother on a journey to Colombia to disinter Nono's remains. With Mami as her unpredictable, stubborn, and often amusing guide, Rojas Contreras traces her lineage back to her Indigenous and Spanish roots, uncovering the violent and rigid colonial narrative that would eventually break her mestizo family into two camps: those who believe "the secrets" are a gift, and those who are convinced they are a curse." -- Amazon.comLo que trajo el mar: crónicas
Par Frank Báez. 2020
"This collection of texts navigates between autobiography and chronicle. With cultural references such as Bob Dylan, Wilfrido Vargas, Karate Kid…
and Dylan Thomas, Frank Báez narrates episodes that go from his childhood to the present and reconstructs, with the fresh look that characterizes him, the paths along which literature has taken him." -- Translation provided by NLSStop-time (Libros del Asteroide #201)
Par Frank Conroy. 2018
"First published in 1967, Stop-Time was immediately recognized as a masterpiece of modern American autobiography, a brilliant portrayal of one…
boy's passage from childhood to adolescence and beyond. Here is Frank Conroy's wry, sad, beautiful tale of life on the road; of odd jobs and lost friendships, brutal schools and first loves; of a father's early death and a son's exhilarating escape into manhood." -- GoodreadsEl ojo en la mira (Lector&s #13)
Par Diamela Eltit. 2021
"No makeup. A woman looks at the libraries of her life over time. A leftist woman who alters all the…
mandates, the absences of women writers in curricula or literary institutions. A woman who speaks out in favor of cultural minorities and recognizes herself in them, who investigates the mechanisms of domination and control, the cultural effects of dictatorships, on both sides of the Andes. She is a Chilean writer who bears the name of a dog or a flower: Diamela Eltit, the same one who in this book removes the deep layers of so many readings that constitute her. Without airs, without establishing hierarchies, until she penetrates the most real part of herself and of the times." -- 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." -- GoodreadsJulio Verne: una versión (Grandes biografías #1)
Par David Mayor Orguillés. 2007
"The French novelist's life unfolded peacefully, punctuated with small maritime adventures only disturbed by the problems brought on by his…
son. Different mistresses have been attributed to Verne and he has even been accused of being a pedophile, but this does not seem to be based on very evident facts. The last third of the 19th century offered Europe a rapidly advancing industrial society. Verne observed this new panorama that was opening up to the real world and, also, to the literary world. A collector of scientific reviews, Verne patiently noted new technical theories. The success he achieved with his novel Five Weeks in a Balloon would not abandon him in successive publications, making him one of the most popular writers of his time. He was a forerunner of the science fantasy genre and foretold many scientific inventions and adventures." -- Translation provided by NLSLa caza del zorro: las memorias de un refugiado acerca de su llegada a America
Par Mohammed Al Samawi. 2018
"The Fox Hunt tells one young man's unforgettable story of war, unlikely friendship, and his harrowing escape from Yemen's brutal…
civil war with the help of a daring plan engineered on social media by a small group of interfaith activists in the West." -- GoodreadsLa llama inmortal de Stephen Crane
Par Paul Auster. 2021
"Booker Prize-shortlisted and New York Times bestselling author Paul Auster's comprehensive, landmark biography of the great American writer Stephen Crane.…
With Burning Boy, celebrated novelist Paul Auster tells the extraordinary story of Stephen Crane, best known as the author of The Red Badge of Courage, who transformed American literature through an avalanche of original short stories, novellas, poems, journalism, and war reportage before his life was cut short by tuberculosis at age twenty-eight. Auster's probing account of this singular life tracks Crane as he rebounds from one perilous situation to the next: A controversial article written at twenty disrupts the course of the 1892 presidential campaign, a public battle with the New York police department over the false arrest of a prostitute effectively exiles him from the city, a star-crossed love affair with an unhappily married uptown girl tortures him, a common-law marriage to the proprietress of Jacksonville's most elegant bawdyhouse endures, a shipwreck results in his near drowning, he withstands enemy fire to send dispatches from the Spanish-American War, and then he relocates to England, where Joseph Conrad becomes his closest friend and Henry James weeps over his tragic, early death." -- Provided by publisher. Some violence and some strong language. L.A. Times Book Prize for Biography. Spanish languageLlorando en el baño: memorias
Par Erika L Sánchez. 2022
"Growing up as the daughter of Mexican immigrants in Chicago in the '90s, Erika Sánchez was a self-described pariah, misfit,…
and disappointment-a foul-mouthed, melancholic rabble-rouser who painted her nails black but also loved comedy, often laughing so hard with her friends that she had to leave her school classroom. Twenty-five years later, she's now an award-winning novelist, poet, and essayist, but she's still got an irrepressible laugh, acerbic wit, and singular powers of perception about the world around her. In these essays, Sánchez writes about everything from sex to white feminism to debilitating depression, revealing an interior life rich with ideas, self-awareness, and perception. Raunchy, insightful, unapologetic, and brutally honest, Crying in the Bathroom is Sánchez at her best-a book that will make you feel that post-confessional high that comes from talking for hours with your best friend." -- GoodreadsLas genealogías
Par Margo Glantz. 2019
"At the heart of this brilliant and colourful Mexican novel lies the search for a family history. Using ancestral recollections,…
flashbacks through history, and personal memory, the author traces her family roots from pre-Revolutionary Russia to contemporary Mexico. Margo Glantz's Mexico is a mysterious world--a cultural carnival where Flash Gordon crosses paths with Columbus: a Mexico of Diego Rivera, Leon Trotsky and Frida Kahlo, hijacked by Dracula and King Kong, filled with the aromas of a kosher bakery and the echoes of jokes, some corny, some not." -- GoodreadsEl Ancestro Tikar
Par Bouke Ibrahim. 2023
Por solicitud y con la bendición de su Majestad, aquí esta para ser compartido este manuscrito acerca del orígen del…
ancestro Tikar. Este es el origen de una tribu, una nación, un pueblo: los Tikar de África. Desde la histórica tierra de KUSH (el Sudán actual) hasta las tierras de Kimi y otros Reinos, tales como el Ngambe-Tikar en Camerún Un libro único en su género, ¡escrito desde una auténtica nación africana, intacto y sin diluír!, escrito por un residente actual de Gah, en la llanura de Tikar. Este libro comparte una historia escrita y hablada del antiguo pueblo Tikar. Contiene el idioma antiguo, tradiciones y costumbres ocultas que se han preservado y permitieron a un pueblo sobrevivir durante cientos de años sin la influencia de los europeos.El secreto de Selena: La reveladora historia detrás su trágica muerte (Atria Espanol)
Par María Celeste Arrarás. 2015
Edición 20 aniversario Un retrato íntimo e investigativo del asesinato de la querida reina de la música tejana, Selena Quintanilla…
Pérez, escrito por la galardonada periodista María Celeste Arrarás. Ahora, con un nuevo introducción y epílogo por la vigésima edición de aniversarioNo hay duda de que Yolanda Saldívar disparó la bala que mató a Selena el 31 de Marzo de 1995, pero ¿alguien sabe lo que realmente sucedió en la habitación 158 del hotel Days Inn, momentos antes de que el crimen se llevara a cabo? María Celeste Arrarás tiene muchas respuestas. Su cobertura de la muerte, el juicio y el drama detrás de la tragedia la convirtió en la experta indiscutible del caso de Selena. Arrarás comparte detalles de primera mano sobre el crimen y las personas involucradas. Incluyendo la polémica entrevista en la cárcel con Yolanda, que en repetidas ocasiones habló sobre “el secreto de Selena”, una insólita información que Saldívar mantuvo oculta durante y después del juicio pero que sí le reveló a Arrarás. Muchas preguntas quedaron sin respuesta hasta la publicación de la citada entrevista. ¿Por qué hubo una maleta llena de ropa de Selena en la escena del crimen? ¿Cuál fue el significado del anillo de piedras preciosas, adornado con la S inicial que cayó del puño ensangrentado de Selena? ¿Quién era el médico de Monterrey que se hacía llamar asesor de Selena? María Celeste le ha seguido la pista al caso durante dos décadas y logro encajar las piezas de este rompecabezas. El secreto de Selena revela lo que realmente sucedió aquel lluvioso día de marzo.