Cronica de mi Vida

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Profeta de nuestro tiempo nos presenta la biografía de un hombre, el jesuita Tomás Morales, en cuyo devenir histórico se amasan los aconteceres sociales y políticos, culturales y eclesiales más trascendentes de España en el siglo XX, convertidos en historia de gracia personal para él y para tantos seguidores suyos, paso del Señor reconocible y testificable por el cristiano de hoy. Es narración ágil, de estilo directo y preciso, que no cede a la laudatoria fácil ni arrincona las incógnitas y aristas del biografiado. Demuestra en su autor una profunda inmersión en las fuentes, una...

Thirty years ago Piri Thomas made literary history with this lacerating, lyrical memoir of his coming of age on the streets of Spanish Harlem. Here was the testament of a born outsider: a Puerto Rican in English-speaking America; a dark-skinned morenito in a family that refused to acknowledge its African blood. Here was an unsparing document of Thomas's plunge into the deadly consolations of drugs, street fighting, and armed robbery--a descent that ended when the twenty-two-year-old Piri was sent to prison for shooting a cop. As he recounts the journey that took him from adolescence in El...

Anita Dittman era apenas una pequea nia cuando los vientos de Hitler y el movimiento Nazi empezaron a soplar en Alemania. Cuando ella cumpli sus doce aos, la guerra ya haba empezado. Abandonada por su padre cuando l vio la pena que pesaba sobre l por tener una esposa e hijas judas, Anita, y su mam, tuvieron que tomar su propio camino. Anita pas sus aos de adolescencia en la lucha por sobrevivir, y as aprendi a confiar en El que nunca la dejara. Esta historia es a la vez triste y dolorosa, pero tambin de esperanza e inspiracin; es un recuento maravilloso que el lector nunca olvidar