Manuel Soto "Sordera de Jerez"

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...

Una de las jóvenes que emigró en los años más duros de la última crisis económica vuelve a España y analiza con nuevos ojos lo que había dejado atrás. Violeta Serrano es una mujer que pertenece a esa generación nacida a fines de los ochenta, que parecía tenerlo todo: democracia consolidada, estado de bienestar asegurado y un colchón europeo que parecía eterno. Pero algo se rompió, las certezas volaron por el aire y de aquellos escombros nacieron estas frustraciones. Esta obra es, en definitiva, un viaje a las entrañas de una generación de la que muchos hablan pero pocos...

This book is an exploration of Jack Kerouac, the writer that a whole generation turned into their reluctant spokesman. Duval gives a voice to key figures from that movement: the poet Allen Ginsberg; Carolyn Cassadys wife and Kerouacs lover; Joyce Johnson, who was in a relationship with the writerwhen he became famous; Timothy Leary, the psychedelic guru of the sixties; Anne Waldman, beat poet; and Ken Kesey, a central figure of American counter-culture. Through their stories, we investigate the mysterious figure of Jack Kerouac, the man who wrote the most important novel of his generation to...

Tras regresar a México, Maria Venegas reconstruye con los recuerdos de su padre una vida marcada por un pasado doloroso, violento y enardecido. Con una prosa sobria y fascinante, Chaleco antibalas es el reconocimiento de Maria Venegas ante el difícil legado de su padre. Pero helo ahí, parado frente a la barra: un pie sobre el tubo de cromo, en el que encaja el tacón de su bota vaquera, con una cerveza en la mano y los músicos tocando un corrido sólo para él. Tras catorce años de ausencia, Maria Venegas regresa a México, desde Estados Unidos, para visitar a su padre José en la...