Tras la Sombra... Un Rayo de Luz

Félix Luna nos regala un libro encantador: una suerte de autobiografía razonada. Sistematiza su vida y experiencias en siete grandes áreas, que presenta con un orden algo sorpresivo. La música está en primer lugar, y sólo después aparece la historia. Luego siguen el país, el trabajo, la formación, la familia y, como remate, la política.

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...

"Este es el recuento de una aventura paradójica. Gloria Trevi, la diva de la música popular mexicana, protagonista del mayor y más confuso escándalo de la farándula en lo que va del siglo XXI, le pidió a Sabina Berman que investigara la verdad de lo que ocurrió, para que la escritora lo contara en el guión de una película. Al principio, la colaboración en esa búsqueda las acercó, sin embargo la verdad resultante terminaría por apartarlas. En esta época en que el máximo deseo es la Fama, el mayor peligro es la Infamia. Sabina Berman, ofrece en Gloria su testimonio y sus...

A powerful memoir by two sisters about transitioning, family, and the path to self-realization. When Orange Is the New Black and Diary of a Future President star Selenis Leyva was young, her hardworking parents brought a new foster child into their warm, loving family in the Bronx. Selenis was immediately smitten; she doted on the baby, who in turn looked up to Selenis and followed her everywhere. The little boy became part of the family. But later, the siblings realized that the child was struggling with their identity. As Marizol transitioned and fought to define herself, Selenis and the...