Antón Martín. Historia y arte del madrileño Hospital de la Orden de San Juan de Dios

This is the first book-length study of Carmen Miranda in English. It traces her origins as a radio singer, recording artist and film star in Brazil in the 1930s, before exploring in depth her Hollywood screen roles and the construction of her long-lasting star persona in the USA.

La crónica personal de los tres años vividos por el autor en Washington. La situación excepcional empezando con el 11-S, las entrevistas en exclusiva con Condolezza Rice, Collin Powell, Ralph Nader, Chomsky, la relación entre Bush y Aznar, el clima de terror propiciado por el gobierno de Bush, todo ello se relata en esta obra periodística. Vicenç Sanclemente nació en Barcelona en 1959. Periodista e historiador, ha sido corresponsal de TVE en México, Cuba, Washington y actualmente, en Pekín.

The poetic birth of Cuba, and of the character of its culture, might be found in a phrase placed in the mouth of an aborigine of the island and included in a book by the Cuban writers Cintio Vitier and Fina Garcia Marruz, who traced and assembled such outbursts of inadvertent poetry. As is well known, the Spaniards arrived in America by way of the Antilles, which have always formed a sort of aquatic frontier of the continent. In addition to a thirst for gold, the peculiar geography of the area awakened another obsession in Christopher Columbus and his followers that was to last for years: to...

Selección de cinco piezas dramáticas en las que la realidad y la fantasía, la irrisión y el dolor, se encauzan en un mismo espacio creando mundos realmente irresistibles para el lector curioso.