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Quiero dar testimonio hasta el finalVictor Klemperer's will to testify to his life under Nazi terror was reflected in about five thousand pages of newspapers. Written under constant threat of death due to his Jewish status -his marriage to an Aryan woman saved him from deportation-, several decades after...
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La vida sin maquillajeMaryse Condé takes up the story of her life and invites us to accompany her on the exciting journey that marked her youth: a journey that begins in Paris, with an accidental pregnancy and the abandonment of the man she loves, and that leads...
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Valle inquietanteIn 2013, twenty-five-year-old Anna Wiener decides to leave her precarious job as an editorial assistant at a literary agency in New York for the seductive promises of burgeoning tech startups. An adventure that will lead her to move to San Francisco and sign for...
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Tienes que mirarOne of the bravest memoirs published in recent years. A story of resistance as bold as it is clarifying, as intense as it is real. A survival guide to dealing with suffering and the paradox of embracing loss in order to reconcile with the...
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Para Roberto CalassoIn July 2021, Roberto Calasso, editor, writer, intellectual, man of letters, essential figure of Italian and European culture, passed away. Jorge Herralde, accomplice editor and friend of many years, since the youthful meetings in Frankfurt in the seventies of the last century, pays tribute...
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Lejos de EgiptoThis richly colored memoir chronicles the exploits of a flamboyant Jewish family, from its bold arrival in cosmopolitan Alexandria to its defeated exodus three generations later. In elegant and witty prose, André Aciman introduces us to the marvelous eccentrics who shaped his life--Uncle Vili,...
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La DeseadaWhat happens when self-love coexists with pain and vanity? How can you live in the mystery and restlessness of not having a story to tell? Maryse Condé answers these questions from the story of three generations of island women united by the force of...
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Corazón que ríe, corazón que lloraIn this collection of autobiographical essays, Maryse Condé vividly evokes the relationships and events that gave her childhood meaning: discovering her parents’ feelings of alienation, her first crush, a falling out with her best friend, the death of her beloved grandmother, her first encounter...
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Genghis Khan y la creación del mundo modernoThe 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...
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Días para ser gatoBody alignment expert Lauren Roxburgh believes that problems can be solved by first unlocking the foundation of your mental and physical health: the pelvic floor. Located at the root of our pelvis, it determines how firm our core is, how we handle stress, and...
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PutinHow did Vladimir Putin go from being a simple KGB officer in the German Democratic Republic to becoming the most powerful figure in the new Russia, which is moving further and further away from Westerners? Hubert Seipel was the only Western journalist to accompany...
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Historia de los abuelos que no tuveIvan Jablonka's grandparents' lives ended long before his began: although Matès and Idesa Jablonka were his family, they were perfect strangers, When he set out to uncover their story, Jablonka had little to work with, Neither of them was the least bit famous, and...
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La chica de la mafiaArlyne Weiss grew up on the Lower East Side of Manhattan, the daughter of a Jewish mobster who ran an auto sales business as a front. From a young age she idolized Virginia Hill, the girlfriend of gangster Bugsy Siegel, and aspired to have...
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Los papeles de HerraldeAlthough the profession of an editor is enigmatic, these papers offer a hectic and at times explosive collection of clues to show how Jorge Herralde exercised it.From the purchase of a typewriter, a table and a chair in 1968 to the decision to hire...
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El bar de las grandes esperanzasJ. R. Moehringer grew up captivated by a voice. It was the voice of his father, a New York City disc jockey who vanished before J. R. spoke his first word. Sitting on the stoop, pressing an ear to the radio, J. R. would...
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En veranoThe conclusion to one of the most extraordinary and original literary projects in recent years, Summer once again intersperses short vividly descriptive essays with emotionally-raw diary entries addressed directly to Knausgaard's newborn daughter. Writing more expansively and, if it is possible, even more intimately and unguardedly...
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En primaveraSpring is the recommencement of Knausgaard’s fantastic and spellbinding literary project of assembling a personal encyclopedia of the world addressed directly to his newly born daughter. But here Knausgaard must also tell his daughter the story of what happened during the time when her...
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En otoñoFrom the author of the monumental My Struggle series, Karl Ove Knausgaard, one of the masters of contemporary literature and a genius of observation and introspection, comes the first in a new autobiographical quartet based on the four seasons.
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En inviernoThe second volume in his autobiographical quartet based on the seasons, Winter is an achingly beautiful collection of daily meditations and letters addressed directly to Knaugsaard's unborn daughter. In preparation for her arrival, he takes stock of the world, seeing it as if for the first...
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Desde dentroThis novel had its birth in the death of Martin Amis's closest friend, the incomparable Christopher Hitchens, and it is within that profound and sprawling friendship that Inside Story unfurls. From their early days as young magazine staffers in London, reviewing romantic entanglements and the latest...
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