El jugador

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 ...

"Pretendes acercarte al dolor de otros sin poder prever que la vida siempre te tendrá reservada la obligación narrativa y moral de atender tu propio sufrimiento". El 21 de julio de 2017 el padre de Juan Álvarez fue imputado por dos delitos contra la administración pública y enviado a la cárcel en detención preventiva debido a interpretaciones descabelladas de interceptaciones telefónicas e informes de policía judicial errados. Sostenido por el eco de otros casos y otras historias que se entretejen en el extravío emocional del autor, este libro es la impugnación de un hijo contra la ...

Esmeralda Santiago finally breaks out of a monumental struggle with her powerful mother, only to come under the thrall of "the Turk" and discover that romantic passion, too, can become a prison.

This is the story and background of how an orphan Chinese boy, with Gods blessing, created the world-renowned Jade Pagoda and its priceless companion collection and how it was lost to not only 1.4 billion Chinese but also to the people of the United States and the world. The centerpiece of this jade collection is the Jade Pagoda that took the blood and sweat of 150 Chinese jade artisans over ten years to complete. It was carved from the largest jadeite boulder ever mined from a quarry in Northern Burma (Myanmar). These jade workers labored between 1922 and 1933 by hand-and-foot power, using...