Elena Roerich

Se termina de leer este libro La Universidad de mi Vida, agotado, emocionado, admirado, lleno de una serie de sensaciones extraordinarias. Porque ese empirismo que relata Jota se convierte en una tesis laureada en la "universidad de la vida" y en cualquier parte del mundo. La espeluznante descripción de su hijo Jorge sobre su pasión, muerte y resurrección es de una precisión de relojero, de un apóstol de la vida, de quien lleva la vena periodística absoluta y de quien ama a los suyos con amor total. Ahí está la nueva vida que El Creador le entregó a Jota para que siga siendo ese...

As moving as his bestselling works of fiction, Nicholas Sparks's unique memoir, written with his brother, chronicles the life-affirming journey of two brothers bound by memories, both humorous and tragicIn January 2003, Nicholas Sparks and his brother, Micah, set off on a three-week trip around the globe. It was to mark a milestone in their lives, for at thirty-seven and thirty-eight respectively, they were now the only surviving members of their family. Against the backdrop of the wonders of the world and often overtaken by their feelings, daredevil Micah and the more serious, introspective...

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...

El caso de Martha Gellhorn (1908-1998) supone un buen ejemplo del papel secundario que siempre se ha otorgado a la mujer. Y es que, en lugar de por su propia obra, se la conoce por haber sido esposa de Ernest Hemingway.