Por el mundo

A heart cries from exile. Memories of the country left behind mix with and get mixed up with the realities of the country of refuge. The stories in this collection taken together narrate the education of the heart, a heart uprooted by civil war in Spain and given refuge in Mexico, launched on a new life, to stitch them together to form a coherent whole.

Existe una bella palabra en latín para describir los materiales procedentes de edificios antiguos reutilizados en construcciones posteriores. Esa palabra, spolia, podría caracterizar lo que fue en esencia la Edad Media. Las bases que sustentaban el mundo antiguo se aprovecharon para construir, junto con los cimientos del cristianismo y el islam, una sociedad rica, colorida, diferente y a la vez muy parecida a los seres humanos de la actualidad. Tanto la arqueología como las fuentes escritas han tendido puentes para mostrarnos la cotidianeidad de esa gente y los cambios políticos,...

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Del estallido de las hostilidades con Japón en Manchuria a la Guerra de Invierno con Finlandia, de los albores de la Segunda Guerra Mundial en el este de Europa a la devastación de la invasión alemana, del inexorable avance hasta las mismísimas ruinas de Berlín a la sangrienta contrainsurgencia en las fronteras de Ucrania, Bielorrusia y los países bálticos, la experiencia bélica de la Unión Soviética de Stalin fue mucho más larga, extensa y compleja de lo que tradicionalmente se ha considerado. A partir de las dramáticas experiencias tanto de ciudadanos corrientes como de aquellos ...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute...