Biografías de Grandes Cristianos

Quince escritores (narradores, poetas, ensayistas) menores de cuarenta años hurgan entre las huellas que han marcado su memoria y ejercen su oficio: escribir, construir, acosar, narrar, recrear, acaso inventar para ofrecernos este mosaico que se llama Trazos en el espejo. Rápidos esbozos narrativos de momentos clave, pasiones, dramas, pobrezas, aventuras librescas, escenas de lo cotidiano y lo singular.

Captured by the Russian army during World War II and convicted of being a "Vatican spy", American Jesuit Father Walter J. Ciszek spent some 23 agonizing years in Soviet prisons and the labor camps of Siberia. He here recalls how it was only through an utter reliance on God's will that he managed to endure. He tells of the courage he found in prayer - a courage that eased the loneliness, the pain, the frustrations, the anguish, the fears, the despair. For, as Ciszek relates, the solace of spiritual contemplation gave him an inner serenity upon which he was able to draw amid the "arrogance of...

"Francisco, No El Santo" es una historia verdadera del triunfo de una familia sobre la adversidad durante la Gran Depresi n y la Segunda Guerra Mundial. Es una parte importante de la Historia. Tambi n es una historia hipnotizante de una madre maravillosa quien les ense a sus tres hijos la moralidad y los modales, y a veces la consideraban como una santa, y un padre quien fue muchas cosas menos un santo, aunque sus or genes religiosos le han ro do su propia alma. Es una historia de un hombre quien trat de hacer malabarismos con tres familias al mismo tiempo y descubri que no se pod a hacer. Ni ...

From the candid listeners of his beginning as the jubilant and Mediterranean singer, more than five decades have passed. Many of Joan Manuel Serrat's songs are stuck in the memory of various generations. They have become hymns and luminous landscapes in our lives, of dreams and desires that have crossed between singer and audience. The author understands the true universality of an artist is always rooted in his origins. Starting at Serrat's own chronicles as a child, in a melting pot neighborhood, mixed like his own Catalan and Aragon family, it tells the story of a singer that transformed...