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Son casi 300 las cartas que Emilio le escribió a Karen desde la cárcel durante los tres años que pasó como preso político por combatir el régimen franquista. En ellas no sólo se reflejan las duras condiciones del encierro, sino también los esfuerzos de una joven pareja por mantener vivo su amor y salir adelante. Un relato personal, sincero y humano de uno de los aspectos más oscuros y silenciados de la historia de nuestro país.

A wholly original exploration of the life of one of the 20th century's most influential authors, this graphic novel reproduces events from the life of Virginia Woolf in delicate, evocative illustrations. Without ignoring the difficult circumstances that shook the life of the young Woolf and left her with a melancholic and nostalgic streak, the authors seek to portray the lively, happy girl who enjoyed holidays in Talland House, her family's summer home on the Cornish coast; the sharp-tongued adolescent who caustically and humorously critiqued her contemporaries; and the sophisticated and...

Un interesante y lúcido relato de memorias de 18.885 días de actividad política, que se leen en uno.

Thirty years ago Piri Thomas made literary history with this lacerating, lyrical memoir of his coming of age on the streets of Spanish Harlem. Here was the testament of a born outsider: a Puerto Rican in English-speaking America; a dark-skinned morenito in a family that refused to acknowledge its African blood. Here was an unsparing document of Thomas's plunge into the deadly consolations of drugs, street fighting, and armed robbery--a descent that ended when the twenty-two-year-old Piri was sent to prison for shooting a cop. As he recounts the journey that took him from adolescence in El...