Cuerpos de mujer en el tiempo

Las modistas de Auschwitz cuenta la historia de las veinticinco mujeres y adolescentes, la mayoría judías, que en medio del horror absoluto del campo de exterminio de Auschwitz-Birkenau fueron seleccionadas para confeccionar ropa a medida para las damas de la alta sociedad nazi. Sus habilidades se convirtieron en su única esperanza de salvarse de una muerte segura en las cámaras de gas. Basándose en un impresionante trabajo de investigación, incluso en entrevistas con la última costurera superviviente, la novelista e historiadora Lucy Adlington ofrece una detallada e inestimable...

Amor En Medio del Racismo La historia que nunca se cont� La noche del baile anta�o, en el pueblo de Santa Elena de Nazaret. Leyda Mareny por un descuido tropieza con Robert Ruiz, un joven mulato que toc� lo m�s profundo de su alma y le hizo sentir una sensaci�n, que ella nunca hab�a experimentado. Ella trat� de luchar con ese sentimiento que crec�a d�a a d�a, pero sent�a que entre mas luchaba para olvidarlo, tambi�n sent�a que m�s lo extra�aba. Pero solo de pensar que su padre jam�s lo aceptar�a en su familia, por su racismo y su prejuicio, sent�a que...

In 1894, Paul Gauguin left what he considered to be a culturally bereft Europe to live an unfettered life in a tropical paradise Tahiti. It was there that he produced some of his most beautiful and best-known paintings, as well as another masterpiece: this enchanting journal. Complete with sensuous woodblock prints and sketches, this exquisitely designed edition first published by Chronicle in 1994 and now reissued with a beautiful new jacket is still the only translation to contain all of Gauguin's richly colored illustrations of the Tahiti diary. Including Tahitian myths and legends,...

This beautiful and moving story of young love is a classic of European literature. Johannes, the miller's son, and Victoria, daughter of the lord of the manor, enjoy a brief moment of ecstasy that is as transitory as their dreams. They are forever separated by their class, and circumstances force them into perverse cruelty to each other. Yet, Victoria cannot live without her Johannes.Victoria is the only novel Hamsun wrote that could be described as a whole-hearted love story and was written at the beginning of his own marriage (indeed Hamsun named his own daughter, Victoria, after the novel).