Convirtiéndome en el Sr. Octubre

Son ya célebres los libros de conversaciones que Eduardo Carrasco ha realizado con el pintor Roberto Matta, con el filósofo Roberto Torretti y con el publicista José Antonio Camacho. Ahora, en estas Conversaciones conmigo mismo lleva el género del diálogo a la reflexión de su propia experiencia vital, obteniendo una original y fascinante autobiografía. Aborda su vida con singular franqueza y coraje moral, sin soslayar las luces y sombras, éxitos y fracasos, alegrías y dolores de sí mismo y, de la convulsionada época que le tocó vivir.

Un conjunto de crónicas biográficas de siete figuras chilenas que se distanciaron y lucharon contra los estamentos poderosos. En la misma línea de sus trabajos anteriores, Jorge Baradit construye siete perfiles de personajes de la historia chilena considerados díscolos, incómodos o derechamente peligrosos para statu quo de sus épocas. En estas páginas desfilan Arturo Fernández Vial, Manuel Rodríguez, Águeda Monasterio, Luis Emilio Recabarren, Francisco Bilbao, Ramón Freire y Pedro Aguirre Cerda: personajes de origines tan disímiles, pero que comparten -de diversas formas- el...

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 ...

Through his leading role in the three Superman films, Christopher Reeve became so closely identified with the superhero that he wasn't just seen as the actor who played Superman, he was Superman. Which is why the tragic riding accident which left him paralysed from the neck down shocked the world. Superman was not superhuman. It is also why he is now the world's most recognisable person in a wheelchair. In true superhero style, Christopher Reeve refuses to resign himself to the life of a quadriplegic, and is actively campaigning to raise the profile of spinal-cord injury victims and research. ...