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Pedro CasaldáligaIn this book, Juan Jose Tamayo invites us to a fascinating walk through the life of Pedro Casaldaliga. For our protagonist, it’s the "journey of the people towards liberation". "Walk with", not lead, or star, or substitute. The leading role in his liberation belongs...
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Vivir no es tan divertido y envejecer un coñazoOscar Tusquets was writing a book "about the pain of growing old and the acceptance of dying" when the pandemic broke out and, of course, he could not resist the temptation to include some of his reflections, always insightful and politically incorrect: the government’s...
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Che GuevaraAcclaimed around the world and a national best-seller, this is the definitive work on Che Guevara, the dashing rebel whose epic dream was to end poverty and injustice in Latin America and the developing world through armed revolution.Jon Lee Anderson’s biography traces Che’s extraordinary...
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Juan de MesaWith less than a decade of colossal work, Juan de Mesa (Córdoba, 1583-Seville, 1627) has gone down in history as one of the most acclaimed sculptors in works representing the passion and death of Christ. His life story is short and it is full...
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Julio Romero de Torres, Vida y obraCórdoba, land of culture and great artists, was the hand that rocked the cradle of one of the great painters in history: Julio Romero de Torres. City and painter become one through these pages, where the lesser known details of the life and work...
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Permiso para retirarmeAfter asking permission to live and feel, now Alfredo Bryce Echenique asks permission to retire. Divided into five parts, emerges the emotional and tragicomic evocations of their journeys: childhood in Peru, the school and family environment, the adventurous father and the sensitive mother, and...
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Amar a LawrenceThe mysteries of female desire. Catherine Millet addresses the life and work of D. H. Lawrence. Catherine Millet, author of the scandalous The Sex Life of Catherine M., delves into the work of D. H. Lawrence, author of the once scandalous Women in Love and...
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La desaparición de Agatha ChristieIn this book, readers will find the most surprising questions and answers about the biographies of some of the most prominent writers of world literature, such as Agatha Christie, Mary Shelley, Yukio Mishima and Arthur Conan Doyle, who fulfill the topic that reality surpasses...
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Vlad DraculeaThis book narrates the rise and fall of the Wallachian voivode commonly known as Vlad Tepes or Vlad the Impaler, whose greed and cunning allowed him to conquer the throne of Wallachia. The history of this personality inspired Bram Stoker to create the most...
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La huella de los díasWith its deeply personal and seamless blend of memoir, cultural history, literary criticism, and reportage, The Recovering turns our understanding of the traditional addiction narrative on its head, demonstrating that the story of recovery can be every bit as electrifying as the train wreck...
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Mientras estés conmigoI Still Believe has inspired millions around the world. This is the story behind the song and movie that was inspired by it. It’s an inside look at Jeremy’s life—from his difficult childhood and teenage years to the tragic passing of Melissa and the spiritual...
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Siempre demasiado y nunca suficienteIn this revelatory, authoritative portrait of Donald J. Trump and the toxic family that made him, Mary L. Trump, a trained clinical psychologist and Donald’s only niece, shines a bright light on the dark history of their family in order to explain how her...
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Al oeste del EdénNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER An epic, mesmerizing oral history of Hollywood and Los Angeles from the author of the contemporary classic EdiePraise for West of Eden“Compulsively readable, capturing not just a vibrant part of the history of Los Angeles—that uniquely ‘American Place’ Stein refers to in her...
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Bloomberg, por BloombergBrash and supremely self-confident, Michael Bloomberg, the visionary behind the world's fastest-growing media empire, has been hailed as having what it takes to win in the Information Age. Dismissed from Salomon Brothers in 1981, Bloomberg immediately took his money and started Bloomberg L.P. /...
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Un cinéfilo en el VaticanoIn 1990 Román Gubern met Enrique Planas who turned out to be the leader of the Vatican Film Library. When Gubern settled in Rome as director of the Cervantes Institute, the Catalan priest contacted him and proposed to participate in the Vatican preparations to...
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La vida secretaAndrew O’Hagan presents reports exploring the idea of identity on the Internet―true, false, and in between―where your virtual self takes on a life of its own outside of reality. These fascinating pieces take us to the weirder fringes of life in a digital world...
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Los diarios de Emilio Renzi. Los años felicesThis volume covers the period from 1968 to 1975. A passion for literature is embodied in sketches of stories and novels by fellow writers, the worsk of classic authors and novelists. Included are Peron's death, the rise of guerrilla groups, and the military coup....
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El hombre que inventó la Fórmula 1Bernie Eccleston, the great magnate of Formula 1 is an elusive, mysterious type, even sinister, in whose hands the car races have become a multi-billion business. How this used car salesman did to become a billionaire who travels in private jet and rubs shoulders...
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Alvarez Duarte, el niño imagineroThis book shares the story of Luis Álvarez Duarte (1949-2019), a child who wanted to be an artist. He was the sculptor of religious images, the creator of carvings such as El Cristo de la Sed, La Virgen del Patrocinio, the Macarena of New York,...
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Javier Pradera o el poder de la izquierdaThis is a biography of an intellectual, editor, and columnist, who played a relevant role in Spain during the last four decades of the twentieth century. Through numerous testimonies and documents, Jordi Gracia reconstructs the vital, intellectual, editorial and political trajectory of Javier Pradera....
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