Nueve Semanas

She spoke of God and miracles. In the 50 years of her ministry she possibly testified personally to 100,000,000 people about the love and the power of God. Wherever she went, people who thought that miracles were not possible, believed because of her. Before she died, she asked only for Jaime Buckingham to write her biography. Here we have the story, not of a holy person, but of a human -marriage, divorce, treason in her administrative work- with dark events surrounding her death. It is the story of Kathryn Kyhlman that no one knows, but that she wanted to reveal. The story of a red headed...

Las hijas de Juan shatters the silence surrounding experiences of incest within a working-class Mexican American family. Both a feminist memoir and a hopeful meditation on healing, it is Josie Méndez-Negrete’s story of how she and her siblings and mother survived years of violence and sexual abuse at the hands of her father. Méndez-Negrete was born in Mexico, in the state of Zacatecas. She recalls a joyous childhood growing up in the midst of Tabasco, a vibrant town filled with extended family. Her father, though, had dreams of acquiring wealth in el norte. He worked sun-up to sun-down in ...

En emotivas páginas relata la pianista y directora de coro Agnes Kauer su propia historia, una historia de triunfos, caídas y resurgimientos, en la que la música desempeña el papel decisivo para mantenerla viva y para cada nueva recuperación. Desde su infancia en una ciudad perdida de Hungría hasta su vida actual en Alemania, Agnes ha pasado por un sinnúmero de vicisitudes, entre las que cuenta su actividad profesional en la Cuba de los años de la revolución. Su dedicación incondicional a la música le sirvió para superar todas las crisis; de allí el título original de esta...

Su vida pública y privada. Maria Sáenz Quesada no se limita a ofrecer solo un relato biográfico de esta mujer apasionada, sino que le da vida a la historia de nuestro país en sus primeros años.