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Informe del interiorHaving recalled his life through the story of his physical self in Winter Journal, Paul Auster now remembers the experience of his development from within through the encounters of his interior self with the outer world. It’s an intellectual journey as he inches his way...
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Nelson Mandela - (1918-2013)The biography of Nelson Mandela, one of the great leaders of our time, an icon mainly because of his long struggle against apartheid, is still controversial. His efforts to bring the democracy to South Africa were not totally compensated during the four years he...
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Mick JaggerMick Jagger, in his five decades at the forefront of the Rolling Stones, has been viewed as the most arrogant and narcissistic of all superstars; with a sexual appetite and whose reckless--and alleged--drug use sparked the most famous scandal in the history of rock...
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Mientras llega la felicidadJuan Marse is one of the best Spanish writers of the late 20th Century. His books are real classics of our contemporary age like: Ultimas tardes con Teresa, Si te dicen que caí, Un día volveré, El embrujo de Shanghai o Rabos de lagartija....
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El perfeccionista en la cocinaJulian Barnes, one of the most famous contemporary English writers, tells an exquisite story about his funny experiences and adventures among pans, his successes and defeats. This is a pleasant book cooked with clever humor and it is an essential reading for those who...
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La caídaThe story begins with a devastating quote: «Tito has a cerebral palsy». The Fall tells the fight on the disease of his son Tito and the attempts of a father to communicate with him and to make him walk. This is an emotional literary...
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Una mariposa en la máquina de escribirThis is a story about John Kennedy Toole, an author of a very special novel in 20th century American literature: A Confederacy of Dunces. Cory Maclauchlin has written the biography that this genius writer deserves, going deep into the details of his life, constructing...
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A los actoresIn this book you will find a constellation of stars: Spanish movie stars such as Ángela Molina, Fernando Fernán Gómez, José Coronado, Ana Belén, Eduardo Noriega and Alfredo Landa. Spanish film director Gutiérrez Aragón describes the actors that he has worked with in his...
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El anzuelo del diabloA strong and revealing essay that represents a literary milestone, putting Leslie Jamison on the same level as Susan Sontag and Joan Didion. The author writes about her own experience as a medical actor who was paid to act out symptoms for medical students...
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Bernardo de GálvezThe Biography of one of the great unknowns of history, Bernardo de Galvez. He marched on the right side of George Washington on the Independence Day of the United States in 1776, in recognition of his work and support for the American cause. Barack...
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El gran capitánThe Commemorative V Edition of the centenary of the death of this illustrious and noble warrior. An updated edition, illustrated in full color, with the help of two authors; one, a figure specialist, the other, an expert in the military techniques of the Great...
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En movimiento. Una vidaFrom its opening pages on his youthful obsession with motorcycles and speed, On the Move is infused with Oliver Sacks' restless energy. He recounts his experiences as a young neurologist in the early 1960s, first in California, where he struggled with drug addiction, and then in...
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Carlos V. Emperador y hombreFew historical figures have attracted the attention of historians as Carlos V. This biography of Emperor Charles depicts him from the standpoint of ruler, without neglecting his humanity. He was the most powerful monarch of his time; during his reign the earth was cirumnavegated...
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La muerte del padreThis book introduces American readers to the international literary sensation that is the six-volume autobiographical novel by Karl Ove Knausgaard. It has already been anointed a Proustian masterpiece and is the rare work of literary originality that is intensely readable. / Karl Ove Knausgård está...
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La vida sexual de Catherine M.Catherine Millet, a figure of great prestige in the field of aesthetics, decided to explain her intense sex life, with a frankness and clarity that is absolutely remarkable. The result is, without doubt, one of the most daring and surprising books to come out...
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La juventud de CervantesMost of Cervantes' biographers have tried to recount his character and his myth instead of the adventures of the man: the scarcity of documentary evidence about his life and the many references in his work seemed to indicate that this was the only way...
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Viajes con HerodotoIn the 1950s, Ryszard Kapuscinski finished university in Poland and became a foreign correspondent. He was sent to India – the first stop on a decades-long tour of the world. Revisiting his memories of traveling the globe with a copy of Herodotus' Histories in tow, Travels...
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Llámame FranciscoThis book is the basis of an Italian-Argentinian film of the same name that premiered in Italy in December 2015 and in 2016 in the rest of the world. The film tells two moments in the life of the pontiff. One is during the...
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La vida cotidiana del dibujante undergroundNazario Luque Vera came to Barcelona in 1972 with the firm intention to make a living by drawing comics. The young artist lived in the libertarian Barcelona during the last years of the Franco period and the beginning of the transition: hippies, shared apartments,...
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San Pablo. El apóstol más incomprendidoWhile we know little about some aspects of the life of St. Paul—his upbringing, the details of his death—his dramatic vision of God on the road to Damascus is one of the most powerful stories in the history of Christianity, and the life that...
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