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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...

En el año 2003 Jaume Sanllorente es un joven periodista con una vida exitosa en Barcelona. Un buen día, una agencia de viajes le convence para pasar sus vacaciones en la India. Jaume queda impactado en aquel primer viaje al país de las vacas sagradas, en especial por la pobreza desgarradora que contempla en sus calles. Numerosas casualidades y hechos propiciados por el azar llevan a Jaume a tomar conciencia del mundo en el que vive y a pensar que puede hacer algo por arreglarlo. Tras conocer un pequeño orfanato en Bombay que va a cerrar sus puertas, con sus cuarenta niños a punto de...

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...

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...