Gabriela Tafur en todo su derecho

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 ...

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Este es un libro diferente de los que conforman la vasta obra de Félix Luna. Escrito en tono casi intimista, es un testimonio excepcional y una revisión de sus encuentros con la historia y la música, la política y la literatura, el país y su gente, a veces tierno, a veces emotivo, a veces risueño.

La vida de Juan Pablo II fue un camino ascendente hacia la santidad con multitud de momentos en que experimentó la mano paternal de Dios. La gran cantidad de escritos, el inmenso número de kilómetros que recorrió visitando todos los continentes... empujaron a que fuese nombrado "Magno". En estas líneas se relatan varios sucesos, junto con algunos de sus discursos y palabras, en los que él mismo los da a conocer y reflexiona sobre ellos.