Vidas paralelas

Caminante con Dios is the odyssey of Narciso Zamora's winding and treacherous path toward finding his calling in missions. Trekking with the Gospel over the mountains and through the jungles of Ecuador, Peru and Chile, often walking for days to reach an isolated settlement of a few families, Zamora's is a story of Christian triumph in a journey of 10,000 miles. Also available in English.

The private diaries record aspects of everyday life, woven together by the affective life, in an attempt to capture and contain them in words, and to retain them through writing. They originated as texts for exclusive personal use, but by subsequent developments, they have come to take another course and have been published posthumously, achieving completely different goals from those that initiated them. Such is the case of the two texts that are the subject of this edition: the diaries of Soledad Acosta Kemble and Jose Maria Samper Agudelo, written during four months and four days, before...

Roberto Calasso evoca su infancia en la Florencia de la Segunda Guerra Mundial y la posguerra. Una bellísima evocación de episodios de la infancia en Florencia en los años de la guerra y la inmediata posguerra: un gato de peluche, la detención del padre tras el asesinato del intelectual fascista Giovanni Gentile, el abuelo editor, los soldados americanos vistos desde una ventana, la primera lectura de Proust con trece años, los secretos vínculos con Kafka y Pasternak, el descubrimiento del eros en unas ilustraciones de Orlando furioso de Doré, un par de cafés y una droguería, las...

In the vast array and vitriol of our National Health debate , the doctors voice , especially that of the surgeon , is rarely solicited , and seldom heard . It is mostly the clamor of patients you hear or the rancor of politicians . This compendium of lifetime essays will restitute an imbalance that is long overdue . The collection speaks to how a practicing surgeon really feels about the vital medical issues of our day , and what needs to be done to improve his lifes work and his dedicated care for his patients . American medicine is at a desperate crossroads where the qualitative health of...