Mi hijo precioso

An exceptional biography of the incomparable Colombian romantic poet and author examines Pombo not only as the excentric lover and admirer of the night, and a man inclined to dress himself as a woman, but also his rarely mentioned sides--engineer, nihilist, military man, patriot, and advocate of Bogotá's nineteenth-century culture.

Los periodistas Jesús Úbeda y Julio Valdeón, uno en Madrid y otro en Nueva York, reciben un encargo ilusionante: escribir una biografía de Raúl del Pozo, mito viviente del periodismo y la literatura. Ocurre que este se niega a contar su vida porque detesta el género: "Las mejores biografías las hizo Plutarco en el siglo I d.C.; las de después son mediocres". La solución pasa por traicionar al biografiado entrevistándole a él y a muchos que lo conocen. Es así que Arturo Pérez Reverte, José María García, Jesús Quintero, Manuel Vicent, Carmen Rigalt, Javier Rioyo, Federico...

There is very scarce information on the author of this peculiar book, that many scholars consider initiated the British appetite for the Spanish colonies in South America. Accarette -as he calls himself- or Accarette du Biscay -as appears in the English translation of his story- seems to have been a French-Basque adventurer who traveled twice to South America between 1657 and 1660 under the false identity of a Spanish subject, as the Spanish regime would not allow non-subjects to disembark in its colonies. His most evident purpose -a fact Accarette does not hide- was the lucrative smuggling...

Presents the story of Paulina, who was forced to carry her pregnancy to term because she is poor, even though Mexican law allows abortions in cases of rape, an incident which was the source of much controversy in Mexico at the time.