¡Me Gusta Cómo Soy! / I Like Myself!

Julia Alvarez’s heartwarming novel—now in Spanish. De cómo tía Lola vino de visita a quedarse, una novela juvenil de Julia Alvarez, cuenta la deliciosa historia de una familia dominicana, instalada en Vermont, que recibe la visita de una pariente muy especial. La irresistible, incontrolable e incluso mágica tía Lola transforma la vida de su familia. Sombreros, pañuelos, vestidos alegres, tacones, maracas, un tambor par alas fiestas, café, hierbabuena, orégano, anís, hojas de guanábana, ajíes…, su alegría invade la casa y—poco a poco—a todo el pueblo. Un relato rico,...

The backdrop for the life and loves of a member of the small-town upper class is a village, population 13. With his feelings strangled by the snobbish standards set for him by his mother, all he can do is rebel on the inside. His only friend and drinking buddy is a retired sailor named Ismael. Ismael, no longer able to work and tired out by all the things he has done in his life, has returned to his home to die. But life, through the skills of an old witch, offers him one shady chance to become young again, which Ismael turns down. Hidden feelings in the heart of people who have felt how...

When anyone invites Pedro to play, he replies he is already playing because he always has his cell phone in his hands or he is logged into his gaming system. He ends up missing out on all kinds of fun.

En esta tercera parte del diario del mayor USA que “viajo” a la Palestina de Cristo, el lector, entre otras fascinantes sorpresas, encontrara la respuesta a una de las grandes incognitas de la vida del Hijo del Hombre: su infancia. “Algo” que los evangelistas silenciaron, privandonos de una perspectiva mas autentica sobre la mas grande figura de la Historia. Nadie, hasta hoy, habia tenido la audacia suficiente para atreverse a narrar, paso a paso, como fueron esos primeros anos de la encarnacion humana del Hijo de Dios. Una vida tan inquietante, alegre, dolorosa e intensa como la de...