Arny (Alas rotas)

This up-to-the-minute exposé provides a scrupulously researched and at times deeply alarming account of a president who risks permanently alienating America from the rest of the world. George W. Bush has established himself as one of the most powerful—and one of the most arrogant—of all American presidents. The sources of his power, which have remained shrouded in mystery since his disputed election, originate with fanatical ideologues, fundamentalist Christians, shady businessmen, and right-wing extremists to a degree that will surprise even the most hardened observer.

A impulsos de la gratitud y la admiración he escrito este libro. Amigo de tributar homenaje a todo lo que es prodigioso, justo y bueno, hace años me animaba el deseo de poner mi pequeño contingente para contribuir a popularizar la memoria de los padres de la patria, fundadores de la república. Para llenar mi aspiración me propuse conseguir todo lo que se hubiera escrito acerca de la "Revolución de Colombia," a fin de conocer a fondo este acontecimiento, precursor de la Libertad de cinco naciones de Hispanoamérica, y acaso el más prodigioso de cuantos se registran en la historia del...

En este relato, inspirado en los poemas que Bishop escribió durante los diecisiete años que vivió en Brasil, Michael Sledge recoge la esencia de aquello que la poeta norteamericana más amó: la naturaleza, la poesía, la vida y un amor que se despertará en ella tan pronto pise suelo brasileño. Poco después de su llegada, Bishop inicia una relación con Lota de Macedo Soares, mujer vital, curiosa y sensible que le ofrece una percepción intensa del ser en el tiempo tal y como se plasma en la naturaleza, la arquitectura y la vida cotidiana. Tomando como punto de partida dos versos de...

Zoé Valdés grew up in Havana back in the sixties, as a restless and sappy girl, between the deprivations and the iron control of the Castro dictatorship. At that time, she did not know that, a few years later, she would become the most famous Cuban writer of her time. But the yearning for freedom, as in so many other cases, ultimately prevailed, and in 1995, while invited to a conference on José Martí in Paris, she asked for political asylum in France. That decision would mark her life and would be the beginning of a long series of recognitions and awards for a fruitful and impeccable...