El gran rescate

Frida Kahlo stepped into the limelight in 1929 when she married Mexican muralist Diego Rivera. She was twenty-two; he was forty-three. Hailed as Rivera’s exotic young wife who “dabbles in art,” she went on to produce brilliant paintings but remained in her husband’s shadow throughout her life. Today, almost six decades after her untimely death, Kahlo’s fame rivals that of Rivera and she has gained international acclaim as a path-breaking artist and a cultural icon. Cutting through “Fridamania,” this book explores Kahlo’s life, art, and legacies, while also scrutinizing the...

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...

Paperback edition of this definitive biography of Churchill, which was previously published under the Arrow imprint.

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