Angela Merkel, la canciller eterna

As an actress, Diana Quick was forever trying on the mask of other people's lives - raiding her own memory to service the character she was playing. Coming from a large, noisy family in Kent that seemed to be plain-speaking and straightforward, she was astonished to find on her beloved father's death that his childhood in India was far from idyllic. She was then thunderstruck to hear that he was to have a requiem mass. She had no idea he was Catholic. She discovered that his stepmother had got rid of him and his sister upon marrying his father and that he had grown up in almost total...

Supplemented by many never before published photographs, offers a personal look at the woman known for her humanitarian inspiration to the world.

A woman living and communicating in multiple lands, Susana Chávez-Silverman conveys her cultural and linguistic displacement in humorous, bittersweet, and even tangible ways in this truly bilingual literary work. These meditative and lyrical pieces combine poignant personal confession, detailed daily observation, and a memorializing drive that shifts across time and among geocultural spaces. The author’s inventive and flamboyant use of Spanglish, a hybrid English-Spanish idiom, and her adaptation of the confessional "crónica" make this memoir compelling and powerful. Killer Crónicas...

Para leer de un tirón lo ha hecho: su lenguaje sencillo y ameno, un tema interesante y anécdotas sorprendentes de familiares y amigos que lo conocieron bien, posibilitarán encontrar lectores complices de esta idea en la medida en que penetren por vericuetos de la ciudad santiaguera y el lomerío de la Sierra Maestra como combatiente estudiantil, clandestino y del Ejército Rebelde, como Delegado del Ministerio del Interior, al frente de la Dirección General de Inteligencia, en Angola como combatiente Internacionalista y finalmente como asesor del Ministro de las FAR