Carlos III

Las dos Fridas: Dos pensamientos, dos personalidades, dos vidas encierran la existencia de Frida Kahlo, hoy por hoy la mujer más famosa del mundo. El primer pensamiento lo realiza Dios: ¡ Que mi Hijo Amado sea la Luz y El Creador del Universo! Obediente el Hijo, crea el tiempo y el espacio, y dentro de ésto, el cosmos. Mediante el Big Bang, parte el cosmos en dos universos paralelos. Desde el Big Bang, crea a varios personajes que colaborarán en la Obra de La Creación: El padre Rubén García Badillo, Frida Kahlo Calderón, Miguel Angel Buonarroti, Leonardo Da Vinci, Nefertiti y...

Un extraordinario retrato de la vida escolar, cuyas escenas, situaciones y breves historias muestran el rostro más amargo y duro de la educación. Atemperados por una sonrisa melancólica, este conjunto de relatos no dejará indiferente a nadie.

Thirty years ago Piri Thomas made literary history with this lacerating, lyrical memoir of his coming of age on the streets of Spanish Harlem. Here was the testament of a born outsider: a Puerto Rican in English-speaking America; a dark-skinned morenito in a family that refused to acknowledge its African blood. Here was an unsparing document of Thomas's plunge into the deadly consolations of drugs, street fighting, and armed robbery--a descent that ended when the twenty-two-year-old Piri was sent to prison for shooting a cop. As he recounts the journey that took him from adolescence in El...

From the author of the critically acclaimed Fruit of the Drunken Treecomes a dazzling, kaleidoscopic memoir about liberating herself fromWestern notions of fact and fiction to reclaim her family's otherworldlylegacy. For Ingrid Rojas Contreras, magic runs in the family. Growing up in theColombia of the 1980's and 1990's in a house where "what did you dream?"was asked in place of "how are you?" her world was laced with prophecy andviolence. Her maternal grandfather, Nono, was a renowned curandero, acommunity healer gifted with the ability to talk to the dead, tell the future, curethe sick, and ...