El jugador

The startling true history of how one extraordinary man from a remote corner of the world created an empire that led the world into the modern age. The Mongol army led by Genghis Khan subjugated more land and people in twenty-five years than the Romans did in four hundred. In nearly every country the Mongols conquered, they brought an unprecedented rise in cultural communication, expanded trade, and a blossoming of civilization. Vastly more progressive than his European or Asian counterparts, Genghis Khan abolished torture, granted universal religious freedom, and smashed feudal systems of...

"Tan cerca, tan lejos" intenta devolvernos una vida que se ha marchado. Darás pasos lentamente a través de sus páginas para recorrer un pequeño universo que tiene como único fin rendir homenaje a la sencillez, a la sutileza. Un elogio a la vida en tiempos de pandemia.

The conclusion to one of the most extraordinary and original literary projects in recent years, Summer once again intersperses short vividly descriptive essays with emotionally-raw diary entries addressed directly to Knausgaard's newborn daughter. Writing more expansively and, if it is possible, even more intimately and unguardedly than in the previous three volumes, he mines with new depth his difficult memories of his childhood and fraught relationship with his own father. Documenting his family's life in rural Sweden and reflecting on a characteristically eclectic array of...

El romance entre Marilyn Monroe y JKF se prolongó una década. Diez años de encuentros marcados por el deseo, la locura, las orgías y el escándalo en los que los amantes nunca estaban solos. Cada conversación, cada caricia, cada gesto eran seguidos por la mirada atenta del FBI, de la CIA, de la KGB o de la Mafia.Tensiones políticas internacionales, voyeurismo de Estado, chantaje, manipulación, elecciones amañadas, dinero sucio? Ésta es la anatomía de los instantes vividos entre la mujer más deseada y el presidente más carismático de Estados Unidos, el retrato robot de una...