J.R.R. Tolkien

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.

The intimate and long-awaited autobiography of a legend. In 1967 in San Francisco, just a few weeks after the Summer of Love, a young Mexican guitarist took the stage at the Fillmore Auditorium and played a blistering solo that announced the arrival of a prodigious musical talent. Two years later -- after he played a historic set at Woodstock -- the world came to know the name Carlos Santana, his sensual and instantly recognizable guitar sound, and the legendary band that blended electric blues, psychedelic rock, Latin rhythms, and modern jazz, and that still bears his name. Carlos Santana's...

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...

En un siglo dominado por gobernantes absolutistas y aristócratas prepotentes, la familia Mozart viaja por toda Europa en busca de consagración artística y empleo prestigioso. ¿Será suficiente la ambición de su padre Leopold y el genio de su hijo Wolfgang para lograr su objetivo? La historia de su vida, para conocerlos y comprenderlos, siguiéndolos paso a paso a través de las etapas de sus viajes de aventura. La vida y las peripecias de la familia Mozart en la Europa del siglo XVII: más allá del mito, para apreciar su humanidad. En este nuevo ensayo, dividido en dos amenos...