Los amores contrariados. García Márquez y el cine

Faye Schulman era una adolescente normal y corriente cuando su pequeño pueblo situado en la frontera entre Rusia y Polonia fue invadido por los nazis. Tenía una gran y cálida familia, buenos amigos y vecinos, pero la mayoría de ellos los perdió en los horrores del Holocausto. Pero Faye sobrevivió y sus fotografías son un testimonio de sus experiencias y las persecuciones que presenció. Condecorada por su heroísmo, Schulman, con setenta años relata una historia extraordinaria, no solo de supervivencia, sino de lucha y resistencia contra la opresión. En este maravilloso libro,...

Green Eyes and Fireflies, her second book, a continuation of her book This Life and the Fireworks contains 57 vignettes (her fans call them cupcakes) in which you live vicariously with the author. Each unique story will capture your imagination. Life, love, war, true stories, poems, fiction, and a play, are all here for your entertainment. Like that box of chocolates with all the flavors, shapes and colors to entice you, each one a confection to savor. So be brave and flit about like a firefly feasting and enjoy the illuminations this author brings. Like the wonderful refrain from that famous ...

Rutka Laskier barely lived to her teenage years. Before disappearing into the deadly smoke of Auschwitz in 1943, she left behind a notebook. Recovered after 60 years, the notebook opens a unique and moving window into the everyday life of Polish Jews caught in the throes of Hitler's Final Solution. Her mature reflections and youthful hope have reminded many readers of another young journal keeper: Anne Frank.

The "Lazarillo." offers a sound and credible vision of the colonial life between 1771 and 1773, as well as practical details of the trip from Montevideo up to Lima, through Buenos Aires, Cordoba, Salta, Potosi, Chuquisaca and Cuzco. According to Jose Luis Busaniche, the argentine born historian, "through its pages flows a new feeling about nature, far apart from the previous letters and documents of the colonial era" Its first edition circulated in a clandestine way in America. The text is the transcription of don Alonso Carrio de la Vandera's writings during his royal commission of fixing...