Detrás de mi Sonrisa

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...

Nos conduce a una especie de memoria central de este siglo en la Argentina, por medio de un relato fluido que no ofrece una acumulacion de anacdotas sino un itinerario veraz y apasionado.ENCUENTROS es una forma distinta del dialogo que Felix Luna viene manteniendo desde hace anos con el publico argentino. Un libro que percibe la realidad nacional y su sensibilidad para interpretarla, esta vez en clave personal; no historica.

EL SACAMANTECAS VITORIANO, EL HOMBRE LOBO DE ALLARIZ (GALICIA), LOS SACAMANTECAS ANDALUCES (GRANADA, MÁLAGA, LAS HURDES...), LA VAMPIRA DEL RAVAL (BARCELONA), EL SACAMANTECAS DE SAN SEBASTIÁN... El Sacamantecas, un personaje a caballo entre la realidad y el mito, una figura mítica que comenzó con Manuel Blanco Romasanta en Galicia a mediados del siglo XIX (el famoso hombre lobo u "ome do unto"). Siguió con el caso de Vitoria y continuó con otros casos (crimen de Gádor en Almería, presunto sacamantecas en San Sebastián, crímenes de niños a los que les extraían las grasas corporales ...

Tells the story of Cayetano, the patron saint of gamblers and good fortune, who is a special favorite in the working class district of Liniers, northwest of Buenos Aires, where a church in his name is visited by thousands of pilgrims on his Feast Day of August 7 to pray for peace, food, and work.