Fidel Castro Ruz

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Un libro fascinante en torno a un personaje de excepción: el emperador Haile Selassie de Etiopía, el Rey de Reyes, el León de Judá, el Elegido de Dios, el Muy Altísimo Señor, Su Más Sublime Majestad, descendiente directo de Salomón, que gobernó su país como monarca absoluto durante casi cincuenta años, hasta que en 1974 fue derrocado por un Consejo Revolucionario. Ryszard Kapuscinski viajó a Etiopía, se sumergió en un país azotado por una confusa guerra civil y, cautelosamente, superando desconfianzas y temores, logró entrevistar a los antiguos dignatarios de la corte...

When I saw her again later, I revised my first judgment. I fell under the spell of her "Maori charm." Notwithstanding all the intermixture, the Tahitian type was still very pure in her. And then the memory of her ancestor, the great chief Tati, gave her as well as her brother and all her family an appearance of truly imposing grandeur. She had the majestic sculptural form of her race, ample and at the same time gracious. The arms were like the two columns of a temple, simple, straight; and the whole bodily form with the long horizontal line of the shoulder, and the vast height terminating...

RESUMEN: En Volcan apagado, Anel relata lo que fue vivir junto a José José, una de las estrellas mas importantes de la musica popular mexicana, quemar los deseos en el alcohol, en la sala de un hospital, en el refugio de una noche sin caricias.