Soy Moisés Aldana de la Peña: Proyector de felicidad

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 ...

En este nuevo estudio de conjunto sobre la figura de san Juan de la Cruz, el autor, catedrático de literatura española en la Universidad de Oxford, examina los logros literarios, teológicos y místicos del carmelita y explora las relaciones entre ellos, en especial a través de su uso innovador del lenguaje para expresar lo inefable. En este ensayo se muestra cómo el arte poético de san Juan es parte integral de su teología, al tiempo que los comentarios a sus poemas mayores se analizan tanto por sus cualidades estilísticas como por las enseñanzas que se desprenden de ellos. Más en...

One day, in a tiny Methodist chapel, he heard the call of God and immediately began the work of making sure that everyone knew that they had to 'only believe'. Over the last 50 years, he has become the principal figure in the growth of the Pentecostal movement, leading missions all over the world.

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 ...