Los pecados de Neruda

Although her origins lie in the village of Nocedo del Valle, in the region of Galicia, Blanca De La Rosa was born in Dominican Republic in the bosom of a humble family. Fate wanted her to be the living proof that we all can achieve our goals. From a childhood in the projects of New York, she ended up an executive at the American corporation ExxonMobil. It was when assessing her life that she decided to dig into her ancestors’ history and trace it back to her origins. Pursuing a Better Tomorrow is more than a novel gathering the history of three generations throughout over a hundred years,...

Julio Ligorría analiza y proyecta en Guatemala frente al espejo a un país multilingüe y pluricultural, regido por una constitución que lo enmarca en el modelo republicano, de estructura económica industrial, que sobrevivió a la descomposición social de un conflicto interno de 36 años caracterizado por una ubicación geoestratégica privilegiada, en tanto colinda con NAFTA y dista tres horas de vuelo de Estados Unidos. Ligorría señala que la movilidad humana es apresurada, mientras que la socioeconómica es sumamente lenta. En Guatemala frente al espejo, Julio Ligorría da su visión ...

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...

Susan Sontag was an American celebrity intellectual whose life mirrored the cultural upheavals of her time. In this biography, Daniel Schreiber portrays Sontag as a glamorous woman full of contradictions and explores the roles that she played in influencing American public cultural and political conversations.