Sophia y los fantasmas del recuerdo

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 ...

Me odiaría cada mañana recorre con mirada irónica (aunque siempre benévola) el mundo del cine norteamericano desde los inicios del sonoro hasta las postrimerías del siglo xx; en sus páginas se recrean las gloriosas, ridículas y a veces miserables andanzas de personajes como Louis B. Meyer, Dalton Trumbo, Marlene Dietrich, Katharine Hepburn, Spencer Tracy, Bertolt Brecht, John Huston, Elia Kazan, Darryl F. Zanuck, Otto Preminger, Edward Dmytryk o Kirk Douglas. Pero estas memorias son también un ácido testimonio de una época dominada por el miedo durante la cual un Estado democrático ...

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...