Yo, Gardel

"This is a story about how I was saved by love at a time when most people considered me beyond rescue," begins Victor Rivas Rivers in this powerful chronicle of how he escaped the war zone of domestic violence -- too often regarded as a "private family matter" -- and went on to become a good man, a film star, and a prominent activist. The Cuban-born author begins by recalling when he was kidnapped, along with three of his siblings, by his own father, who abandoned Victor's pregnant mother and took the children on a cross-country hell-ride that nearly ended in a fatal collision. This journey...

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...

Soñar, luchar, cocinar podría ser un cuento de hadas con final feliz, pero la historia de María Marte es mucho más que eso. Un relato cercano al realismo mágico de su Caribe natal, en el que la protagonista nos cuenta cómo, a pesar de ser una inmigrante dominicana que se ganaba la vida fregando platos y deseaba cocinar para los demás, acabó convirtiéndose en una de las mejores chefs del mundo, venciendo así al destino. La chef de El Club Allard nos descubre los sabores, los olores, los secretos de su cocina y las recetas que la han acompañado desde su infancia, manteniendo viva la...

Más de 20 años después desde que dejara de jugar al fútbol, la figura de Diego Maradona sigue despertando interés. De lectura ágil y con una investigación seria detrás, Gracias Maradona incluye análisis novedosos que permiten una mirada nueva de este mito del fútbol. Por ejemplo, “Gracias Maradona” enfoca el gol de “la mano de Dios” de modo distinto al habitual, alcanza conclusiones sorprendentes al comparar a Diego y Pelé, destaca virtudes esenciales para el éxito deportivo de Maradona que han sido inadvertidas, explica su vínculo con Nápoles desde otra perspectiva,...