Autoayuda para snobs

Un relato en primera persona que invita a asumir las responsabilidades del pasado y liberar a las futuras generaciones de la herencia de rencor y venganza, para levantar un país democrático, que incluya a todos, que habilite el encuentro genuino con el otro. Sin insultos, sin descalificaciones, sin odios. Por encima de cualquier bandera política.

This book is a history of the kidnapping of Juan Manuel Fangio, Argentine quintuple champion of Fórmula 1. This world-famous event was perpetrated by a little group of July 26 Movement’s members in 1958, the day before the Big Prize of Cuba, due February 23. Also, the book presents publications in the Cuban and foreign press about this extraordinary event that gave to Fangio more fame that all his sportive successes. The kidnapping carried out the revel’s objective: to make the world know about their struggle for knock down the bloody dictatorship in Cuba. In the appendix appears the...

Philip Norman's family considered themselves genteel yet somehow became involved in the opportunistic world of seaside trade on the Isle of Wight. With masterly skill, Norman recreates his upbringing among this gallery of social misfits - his handsome but unstable father Clive, once a dashing RAF officer, now a reluctant showman at the end of Ryde Pier, his pub-owning Uncle Phil, who dresses as a woman every New Year's Eve, and his irresistible Grandma Norman who presides over her rock kiosk and rules the troubled family like a Mafia don. The year is 1953. While Britain celebrates the...

Como todo gran libro de memorias, esta AUTOBIOGRAFÍA –cuyo impresionante caudal de datos es canalizado por una estructura perfectamente trabada- no se agota en sus aspectos meramente informativos; «hay en ella –señala Carlos Mellizo, prologuista y traductor de la obra– otra dimensión menos obvia, más universal y profunda, que la eleva y enriquece». Por las páginas del volumen desfilan innumerables personajes que permiten reconstruir el panorama intelectual y político de Inglaterra en una época crucial de la moderna cultura europea. Pero es la historia del aprendizaje...