Íngrid y yo

"What is a face, really? Its own photo? Its make-up? Or is it a face as painted by such or such painter? That which is in front? Inside? Behind? And the rest? Doesn't everyone look at himself in his own particular way?" With these words, Pablo Picasso described the revolutionary methods of painting and artistic perspective with which he challenged the ways people and the world were defined. His life was a similarly complex prism of people, places, and ideologies that spanned most of the twentieth century. Acclaimed scholar Mary Ann Caws provides in Pablo Picasso a fresh and concise...

¿Cómo fue para los hijos de los exiliados crecer en un país ajeno, lejos de su familia y su cultura, y luego llegar a Chile al final de la dictadura? Este ensayo literario autobiográfico intenta responder a estas preguntas.

Después de triunfar en los cabarets de media Europa, el bailarín flamenco Juan Martínez, y su compañera, Sole, fueron sorprendidos en Rusia por los acontecimientos revolucionarios de febrero de 1917. Sin poder salir del país, en San Petersburgo, Moscú y Kiev sufrieron los rigores provocados por la Revolución de Octubre y la sangrienta guerra civil que le siguió. El gran periodista sevillano Manuel Chaves Nogales conoció a Martínez en París y asombrado por las peripecias que éste le contó, decidió recogerlas en un libro. El maestro Juan Martínez que estaba allí conserva la...

Hope in a Ballet Shoe tells the story of Michaela DePrince. Growing up in war-torn Sierra Leone, she witnessed atrocities that no child ever should. Her father was killed by rebels and her mother died of famine. Sent to an orphanage, Michaela was mistreated and saw the brutal murder of her favourite teacher. Then Michaela and her best friend are adopted by an American couple, and Michaela begins to take dance lessons. But life in the States isn't without difficulties. Unfortunately, tragedy can find its way to Michaela in America, too, and her past can feel like it's haunting her. The world...