De Acero y Nube

En 2009, Clinton Romesha, de la sección Red Platoon, y el resto de la tropa Black Knight se preparaban para cerrar el Comando Outpost (COP) Keating, el más remoto e inaccesible de una serie de bases militares construidas por el ejército estadounidense en Nuristán y Kunar, con la esperanza de impedir que los insurgentes talibanes se moviesen libremente entre Afganistán y Pakistán. Keating se encontraba aislado y era demasiado difícil de defender. El 3 de octubre de 2009, 300 talibanes atacaron Keating con todos los recursos de que disponían. La batalla, que duró doce horas y es...

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.

Pope John Paul II is now universally considered to have been one of the great leaders of the twentieth century and possibly the most politically influential pope since St Peter. His achievements are well documented, yet he once said, 'I can only be understood from the inside.' In this vivid and accessible living portrait, O'Connor investigates the inner man, including Karol Wojtyla's life before he became Pope and his friendships with men and women, subtly analysing the Pope's own poems, plays and philosophical works for clues as to what made him tick. It also dramatically follows his life,...

The "Lazarillo." offers a sound and credible vision of the colonial life between 1771 and 1773, as well as practical details of the trip from Montevideo up to Lima, through Buenos Aires, Cordoba, Salta, Potosi, Chuquisaca and Cuzco. According to Jose Luis Busaniche, the argentine born historian, "through its pages flows a new feeling about nature, far apart from the previous letters and documents of the colonial era" Its first edition circulated in a clandestine way in America. The text is the transcription of don Alonso Carrio de la Vandera's writings during his royal commission of fixing...