J.R.R. Tolkien

En el relato de su vida, el autor intenta destacar los retos que encara cualquier emigrante; en este caso, emigrar tres veces y a paises con culturas muy diferentes. Lleva al lector a traves de etapas de grandes cambios politicos y sociales en los tres paises. Se destaca dramaticamente el periodo de internamiento en un campo de prisioneros politicos durante su estadia en Cuba. La biografia del autor resulta unica, ya que se desarrolla en tres paises: primero en Espana, donde transcurre su ninez; despues en Cuba, donde vive las mas extraordinarias experiencias en las prisiones politicas;...

El tono con el que Margo escribe es casi siempre festivo. Hasta cuando nos habla de lo más terrible, recurre al guiño, al gracejo o al juego de palabras que despojan a la expresión de cualquier tremendisimo y la dotan de fresca vitalidad. Víctor Gerardo Rivas

This book presents the memories of people that made history in a brilliant or obscure way. With Colon narrating his own experiences in life, the book brings the reader realistic social history. Also includes a large graphic chronological documentation, glossary of special terms & detailed bibliography.

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...