Don Guillén de Lampart, hijo de sus hazañas

Maryse 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 her to wander through different African countries in search of that identity that was already beginning to glimpse with the discovery of blackness. Côte d'Ivoire, Guinea, Ghana and Senegal make up the polyhedral scene of the vital transformation of Maryse, who walks through the revolutionary circles of African socialism and surrenders to the fever of...

Las memorias de Juanita Castro sobre sus hermanos Fidel Castro y Ra�l Castro llevadas de la mano de la gran periodista Mar�a Antonieta Collins."Hace a�os Juanita Castro se decidi� a escribir sus memorias y gracias a una doble y fortuita coincidencia: ser su amiga y ser periodista, fue que comenzamos a trabajar en ellas. Al terminarlas en 1999, simplemente decidi� no publicarlas, y a lo largo de la d�cada, ambas compartimos el secreto de guardar el libro, --el primero que yo hab�a escrito--. Sorpresivamente, en el 2009 decidi� abrir su alma en un extraordinario recorrido por el ...

Una interesante colección con un cómodo formato que aborda una gran gama de temas, desde arqueología y arte pasando por cultura, historia y literatura hasta ciencia y religión, a partir de un punto de vista ameno. Se acompaña a la narración de ilustraciones y cuadros sinópticos con rigurosos datos históricos. Una documentada colección para todos aquellos que buscan una introducción exhaustiva al tema que se expone.

When his friend George Gershwin persuaded Vladimir Dukelsky to change his name to Vernon Duke, what the music world already knew became apparent to the public at large—the man had two musical personas—one as a composer, the other as a tunesmith. One wrote highbrow music, the other lowbrow. Yet the two sides complemented each other. Neither could function without the other. Born and classically trained in imperial Russia, Vladimir Dukelsky (1903–1969) fled the Bolshevik Revolution with his family, discovered American popular music in cosmopolitan Constantinople, and pursued his budding...