Va Ya Con Dios!

As moving as his bestselling works of fiction, Nicholas Sparks's unique memoir, written with his brother, chronicles the life-affirming journey of two brothers bound by memories, both humorous and tragicIn January 2003, Nicholas Sparks and his brother, Micah, set off on a three-week trip around the globe. It was to mark a milestone in their lives, for at thirty-seven and thirty-eight respectively, they were now the only surviving members of their family. Against the backdrop of the wonders of the world and often overtaken by their feelings, daredevil Micah and the more serious, introspective...

Muchos libros han intentado explicar qué es la vida. Juanjo Sáez lo ha conseguido. "Éramos una familia. La Chispeta, la yaya, la mama, el papa y el tío José Manuel. Fueron ellos los que me enseñaron todo lo importante. Como, por ejemplo, qué es el tiempo y el universo. O qué significa crecer. O por qué es valiosa la libertad. O para qué sirven los sueños. Incluso hoy, cuando aprendo algo, es a los míos a quienes se lo cuento. Me da igual que ya no estén aquí, es con ellos con los que hablo del éxito y de la felicidad, y quienes me ayudan cuando la tristeza, el miedo y la rabia...

Salvador Novo (1904-1974) es uno de los escritores más complejos y contradictorios del siglo XX en el mundo de habla hispana. Prosista admirable, gran cronista, poeta de obra breve y perdurable, director de teatro y dramaturgo, experto en gastronomía, es, entre otras cosas, uno de los testigos principales del auge de la burguesía mexicana luego del gobierno de Lázaro Cárdenas. Esta brillante crónica biográfica de Novo escrita por Carlos Monsiváis permite a los lectores un acercamiento muy documentado a una figura excepcional en su valentía personal y literaria y en su transformación ...

There is very scarce information on the author of this peculiar book, that many scholars consider initiated the British appetite for the Spanish colonies in South America. Accarette -as he calls himself- or Accarette du Biscay -as appears in the English translation of his story- seems to have been a French-Basque adventurer who traveled twice to South America between 1657 and 1660 under the false identity of a Spanish subject, as the Spanish regime would not allow non-subjects to disembark in its colonies. His most evident purpose -a fact Accarette does not hide- was the lucrative smuggling...