Kafka

Un libro de entrevistas revelador y apasionante. Landeros es, al decir de Emmanuel Caballo, un entrevistador nato y as lo demuestra en esta obra: llega hasta el fondo de la esencia de Elena Garro. Su estrategia es la de jugar con la frivolidad y la vanidad de ambos, pero nunca cae en lo superficial. Al final de sus entrevistas casi siempre logra lo que se propone: hacer un retrato fiel de Elena y sumergirnos en su mundo. Este libro nos entrega, con riqueza de recursos literarios, las excepcionales entrevistas que el autor realiz a lo largo de una amistad que cultivo durante ms de treinta aos...

Más de 60 años después, relato con orgullo mis logros académicos, los profesionales y los personales, que son los que más disfruto gracias al apoyo de mi amada familia. Rindo homenaje a mis profesores, quienes en forma por demás brillante –pero sobre todo generosa–, compartieron su sabiduría conmigo para cumplir mi sueño de poder ejercer la linda profesión de Químico Bacteriólogo y Parasitólogo. Rindo homenaje a mis profesores, quienes en forma por demás brillante –pero sobre todo generosa–, compartieron su sabiduría conmigo para cumplir mi sueño de poder ejercer la...

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 ...

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...