El disco duro de un médico sin ordenador

Esta historia real cuenta cmo, veinte aos despus que las tropas inglesas murieran para defender la democracia en la Guerra de Malvinas, un ciudadano britnico se vera forzado a huir de las Islas Malvinas, para escapar de la corrupcin poltica y amenazas de muerte, en bsqueda de democracia y libertad de expresin en Argentina. Cuando un bilogo ingls se atrevi a relacionar la muerte de cinco millones de pinginos por falta de alimento, con la pesca comercial, que estaba enriqueciendo al sector ms poderoso de las Islas Malvinas, se desat un juego de muerte del gato y el ratn. Los intentos fallidos...

La autora de La fruta del borrachero nos entrega una deslumbrante historia caleidoscópica que recupera el legado místico de su familia. A Ingrid Rojas Contreras la magia le corre por las venas. No era una niña fácil de sorprender: creció en medio de la violencia política de los años ochenta y noventa en Colombia, en una casa siempre atestada de gente que venía a que su madre le leyera el futuro. Su abuelo materno, Nono, era un curandero de renombre, dotado de lo que la familia llamaba “los secretos”: el poder de hablar con los muertos, predecir el futuro, tratar a los enfermos y...

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...

Traces the author's upbringing in a dangerous urban neighborhood where he joined a gang in order to survive until his mother married a successful entrepreneur who taught him key life and business principles, in an inspirational account that describes his subsequent rise to wealth. Reprint. (business & economics)