Escape al Caribe

Uno de los relatos literarios y periodísticos más bellos y mejor logrados sobre algunas de las mujeres colombianas más representativas del caribe colombiano. Durante veinte años, la reconocida periodista y actriz Maribel Abello, se dedicó a investigar y rescatar la vida, logros y sufrimientos de 10 mujeres colombianas que dejaron huella en medio de un territorio machista y con el viento en contra, como lo ha sido la región Caribe. Este libro es un maravilloso relato, pintado de inmigración, de historia, de lucha y folclor colombianos. La autora escribe de espíritus libres, que...

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...

"El maestro revolucionario del tango, Astor Piazzolla, se esta transformando rapidamente en un verdadero mito. Maria Susana Azzi y Simon Collier han revelado muchisimos detalles significativos acerca de su vida y su musica. Cada pagina de su libro rebosa de aciertos en torno a la personalidad de Piazzolla, y nos recuerda el afan creador, el teson y la diablura que son necesarias en la creacion de la verdadera belleza."DAVID HARRINGTON, FUNDADOR DEL KRONOS QUARTET"Un documento extraordinario sobre to vida y la musica del maestro argentino del bandoneon. Piazzolla entendia muy bien mi pasion...

In 1579 Philip II awarded a large territory in New Spain to a Portuguese man named Luis de Carvajal. That territory included a significant portion of present day Mexico, as well as portions of Texas and New Mexico. This remarkable man discovered, conquered, and settled most of that territory. He also brought a large group of settlers from Spain and Portugal whose impact on its cultural development was very significant. Many of those settlers were of Jewish descent and some of them were tried by the Inquisition for practicing the faith of their ancestors. This book is a biography of Carvajal...