Este cuerpo, ¿es mío?

“Nací en junio de 1966, en el invierno porteño. Durante mi primer verano de vida, mi viejo se pasó cuatro meses de entrenamiento guerrillero en La Habana, mientras su esposa y sus dos hijos lo esperábamos en Buenos Aires. Ese comienzo lleva la marca que signaría el resto de mi infancia y adolescencia.” Tras la muerte de su madre, el protagonista de este libro encuentra una vieja caja de zapatillas donde ella atesoraba toda clase de memorabilia: cartas, postales, casetes, fotografías... A medida que exhuma el contenido, va reconstruyendo su pasado y el de su familia. Hijo de dos...

Daring, flashy, innovative, volatileno matter what they call him, Zlatan Ibrahimovic is one of soccers brightest stars. A top-scoring striker with Paris Saint-Germain and captain of the Swedish national team, he has dominated the worlds most storied teams, including Ajax, Juventus, Inter Milan, Barcelona, and AC Milan. But his life wasnt always so charmed.

«L’età classica della corrida finì un giorno del 1914 dal barbiere. Un giovanotto dalla bazza pronunciata entrò in un famoso salone della madrilena calle Sevilla e sistemandosi sulla poltrona ordinò: “Barba e capelli. Ma prima mi tagli il codino” [...] Era un matador di 22 anni in rapinosa ascesa [...] Voleva solo cortarse la coleta, anacronistico cascame settecentesco, prolungando sin nel look la rivoluzione modernista che aveva appena avviato nelle plazas de toros. Di lì in poi la storia della tauromachia si sarebbe divisa in un prima e un dopo Belmonte [...]. Ma in che cosa...

Las hijas de Juan shatters the silence surrounding experiences of incest within a working-class Mexican American family. Both a feminist memoir and a hopeful meditation on healing, it is Josie Méndez-Negrete’s story of how she and her siblings and mother survived years of violence and sexual abuse at the hands of her father. Méndez-Negrete was born in Mexico, in the state of Zacatecas. She recalls a joyous childhood growing up in the midst of Tabasco, a vibrant town filled with extended family. Her father, though, had dreams of acquiring wealth in el norte. He worked sun-up to sun-down in ...