Si digo muerte, digo vida

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...

Una obra de juventud de Félix Luna con una seria investigación historiográfica. Escrito en 1954 durante el gobierno justicialista, contrapone sutilmente la figura de Yrigoyen a la de Perón, reflejando su militancia política en el radicalismo.

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 ...

Profeta de nuestro tiempo nos acerca la biografía de un hombre, el jesuita Tomás Morales, en cuyo devenir histórico se amasan los aconteceres sociales y políticos, culturales y eclesiales más trascedentes de España en el siglo XX, convertidos en historia de gracia personal para él y para tantos seguidores suyos, paso del Señor reconocible y testificable por el cristiano de hoy. Es narración ágil, de estilo directo y preciso, que no cede a la laudatoria fácil ni arrincona las incógnitas y aristas del biografiado. Demuestra en su autor una profunda inmersión en las fuentes, una...