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PREMIO TIFLOS NOVELA 2022, que cada año otorga la ONCE. Tristeza es nombre de muchacha recién salida de la adolescencia. Así la llaman, y así la reconocen quienes conviven con ella. Y será Tristeza quien dé voz a su propia historia, a su propio desgarro, una voz única, intensa, fresca y poética. En instantes deshilvanados en tiempo y en espacio, la historia de Tristeza nos subyuga y conmueve. La inteligente y bella joven conoce demasiado pronto el sufrimiento y encadena desdichas. Esperanzada siempre, busca ángeles en la Tierra y lee, sobre todo lee, porque le fascina, y también...

New York Times Bestseller Like See No Evil and At the Center of the Storm, this is a vivid and gripping account of the Central Intelligence Agency, a life of secrets, and a war in the shadows. Called the "Bob Gates of his generation" by Politico, Michael Morell was a top CIA officer who played a critical role in the most important counterterrorism events of the past two decades. Morell was by President Bush's side on 9/11/01 when terrorists struck America and in the White House Situation Room advising President Obama on 5/1/11 when America struck back-killing Usama bin Ladin. From the subway...

Álvaro Marañón Bertrán de Lis, sobrino nieto de la Madre Maravillas, ha profundizado en el estudio de esta mujer que lo tuvo todo para vivir entre sedas y lo dejó todo por su entrega a los demás. Nos ofrece recuerdos y anécdotas que muestran a una joven, descendiente de una influyente familia de la nobleza, que un día tomó la decisión de fundar un convento en el Cerro de los Ángeles (Getafe), de donde ella y su comunidad fueron expulsadas en 1936 por causa de la Guerra Civil. Todos los avatares de una monja carmelita con numerosos fieles tanto en España como en Latinoamérica,...

El Otro Lihn explores the cultural endeavors of Enrique Lihn through a number of key viewpoints offered by professors, writers, artists, and family members. The voices of seventeen people explore the poet's critical posture toward Chilean and Latin American culture and describe in detail the many challenges Lihn faced when undertaking the creation of a heterogeneous body of work -poetry books, plays, novels, essays, videos, "happenings" and the comic book Roma, la loba. The interviews set Lihn's life and work against important Latin American historical events such as the repressive cultural...

Through his leading role in the three Superman films, Christopher Reeve became so closely identified with the superhero that he wasn't just seen as the actor who played Superman, he was Superman. Which is why the tragic riding accident which left him paralysed from the neck down shocked the world. Superman was not superhuman. It is also why he is now the world's most recognisable person in a wheelchair. In true superhero style, Christopher Reeve refuses to resign himself to the life of a quadriplegic, and is actively campaigning to raise the profile of spinal-cord injury victims and research. ...