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In Almas en pena, chapolas negras, Fernando Vallejo recounts the life of Colombian poet Jose Asuncion Silva. This unusual biography is a phantasmagoric trip through Bogota at the end of the 19th century. After committing suicide in 1896, Asuncion Silva left Colombia ten of the most beautiful poems of the Spanish language, and to his creditors a sum of $210.000 in debt. A century after his death, Vallejo initiates a search through notaries' archives and libraries, and relying upon an abundance of documents and old newspapers, he begins to solve the mystery of the poet's suicide and his...

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.

Escrito desde el corazón y la memoria, Maquetos es la historia de tres generaciones de una familia, la de Rosa Díez, que fueron tratados como extraños en el País Vasco. Es el ejemplo de cómo el franquismo, primero, y el nacionalismo, después, señalaron como extranjeros (maquetos) a quienes llegaban a esa tierra de otros lugares de España, expulsados de su casa por las penurias de la guerra o buscando una vida mejor, algo que ha continuado de generación en generación. Más allá de los acontecimientos políticos en los que se enmarca el relato y de los hechos que acaecieron en esos...

John D. Rockefeller, Sr.--history's first billionaire and the patriarch of America's most famous dynasty--is an icon whose true nature has eluded three generations of historians. Now Ron Chernow, the National Book Award-winning biographer of the Morgan and Warburg banking families, gives us a history of the mogul "etched with uncommon objectivity and literary grace . . . as detailed, balanced, and psychologically insightful a portrait of the tycoon as we may ever have" (Kirkus Reviews). Titan is the first full-length biography based on unrestricted access to Rockefeller's exceptionally rich...