Asombrados en Argentina

Córdoba, land of culture and great artists, was the hand that rocked the cradle of one of the great painters in history: Julio Romero de Torres. City and painter become one through these pages, where the lesser known details of the life and work Julio Romero de Torres had is approached and resolved.

Ambientada en la glamorosa ciudad de Las Vegas de 1970, Suerte a Favor es la historia de lucha para alcanzar la madurez de una niña fuerte nacida en un continuo ciclo de alcoholismo y abandono. Marlayna desarrolla un poderoso sentido de autopreservación en contraste con los derrotados adultos encargados de su cuidado. Su profunda historia explora los personajes y eventos que pueblan su vida mientras se muda de casa en casa, de un padre al otro, de familia en familia, quedándose finalmente sin hogar a la edad de catorce. De los recursos de su extraordinaria infancia emerge una fuerza...

Gracias Marcos es una novela histórica que mezcla los dos conceptos necesarios para que lo sea: el relato de acontecimientos entre sus personajes —seres irreales, pero representantes de gentes de una España que renació de las cenizas de una cruel guerra entre hermanos— y personajes históricos reales, que jugaron un papel importante desde el periodo franquista hasta el actual, pasando por una transición incruenta. Todos los acontecimientos históricos que aparecen en este libro ocurrieron de verdad, nada es ficticio, los personajes populares representan a aquellos que sufrieron el...

As an actress, Diana Quick was forever trying on the mask of other people's lives - raiding her own memory to service the character she was playing. Coming from a large, noisy family in Kent that seemed to be plain-speaking and straightforward, she was astonished to find on her beloved father's death that his childhood in India was far from idyllic. She was then thunderstruck to hear that he was to have a requiem mass. She had no idea he was Catholic. She discovered that his stepmother had got rid of him and his sister upon marrying his father and that he had grown up in almost total...