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Los contemporáneos del pintor flamenco Pedro Pablo Rubens (1577-1640) supieron reconocer el indudable talento de este extraordinario maestro del Barroco. Sus sensuales desnudos, sus eruditas alegorías históricas y la perfección de sus retratos no tardaron en convertirlo en uno de los artistas más cotizados y requeridos por las monarquías de su tiempo. Por otra parte, su inteligencia y discreción, su carácter fuerte y voluntarioso, junto al hecho de que también hablara seis idiomas, propiciaron que, desde su juventud, Rubens llevara una doble y clandestina existencia como diplomático ...

Perdona excepcional. Sucesor de San José María, fundador del Opus Dei, en el que se apoyó durante cuarenta años. Fue su saxum.

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...

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...