Diego de Sarmiento de Acuña, Conde de Gondomar

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El 18 de junio de 1815 tres ejércitos –Francia, Gran Bretaña y Prusia- descendían por un tranquilo valle cercano a Bruselas en dirección a un pequeño pueblo: Waterloo. Durante los tres días previos las tropas francesas habían vencido a los prusianos en Ligny y combatido contra los británicos en Quatre-Bras. Los aliados planeaban la retirada. Nadie esperaba que en Waterloo se fuese a librar la batalla más famosa de la historia, aquélla que había de marcar el destino de toda Europa. En su primera obra de no ficción, Bernard Cornwell combina sus cualidades de narrador con una...

Vallejo Reyna se interna por los laberintos de la tradición sagrada de los tz´utujil, pobladores mayas de Santiago Atitlán en Guatemala, para quienes los nawales son seres sagrados, con poderes milagrosos cuyo origen se remonta a tiempos inmemoriales. El estudio de Vallejo revela aspectos nodales de la identidad maya contemporánea y de la cuestión étnica y nacional guatemaltecas.

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