Memorias palenqueras y raizales

Biografía del tenista más singular, especie de Hamlet en la cancha, que deslumbró al mundo con su revés y lo desconcertó con sus soliloquios desesperados. Una obra que inmortaliza las genialidades de un deportista único. Talentoso, frontal, díscolo, algunas veces en un subibaja emocional, Gastón Gaudio, el Gato, creador de la frase "¡Qué mal la estoy pasando!", se diferenció de los otros integrantes de la Legión, una generación irrepetible de tenistas argentinos como Franco Squillari, Mariano Zabaleta, Mariano Puerta, Guillermo Coria, José Acasuso, Juan Mónaco, Juan Ignacio...

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...

«Quisiera uno seguir refugiándose todos los días en estas páginas, que son al mismo tiempo una inmersión en el agua bautismal de la literatura y una huída hacia tiempos más felices o que ahora nos parecen tales, porque conservan un resol de juventud que se irá empalideciendo. Ahora comprendo que escribir unas memorias, aunque ligeras como éstas, es más metafísico y corazonal de lo que uno pensaba. Me cuesta dejar este libro porque me ha hecho mucha compañía durante los meses de su escritura. Y no porque haya pensado mucho en él, que no ha sido así, sino porque de pronto abrí...

A powerful memoir by two sisters about transitioning, family, and the path to self-realization. When Orange Is the New Black and Diary of a Future President star Selenis Leyva was young, her hardworking parents brought a new foster child into their warm, loving family in the Bronx. Selenis was immediately smitten; she doted on the baby, who in turn looked up to Selenis and followed her everywhere. The little boy became part of the family. But later, the siblings realized that the child was struggling with their identity. As Marizol transitioned and fought to define herself, Selenis and the...