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En breves e irreverentes anécdotas, en las que la acidez y el humor se desbordan sin timidez, México bizarro retrata un país tan surrealista que lo mismo tiene sabor a chiste que a pesadilla. En sus páginas se encuentran episodios como aquel en que una vidente fue contratada por un fiscal para resolver un homicidio, el exótico cortejo fúnebre a la pierna de Santa Anna, la huelga de hambre de un expresidente que dejó al país en la quiebra, la rodilla que Sara García se fracturó a propósito para ser la eterna abuela del cine, la trágica vida de la Mataviejitas y la funesta ocasión...

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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...

Simon Sebag Montefiore, uno de los más eminentes historiadores británicos, nos presenta las vidas de los gigantes que, para bien o para mal, han hecho nuestro mundo, en un reparto que va de conquistadores, poetas, reyes, emperatrices y prostitutas a psicópatas, compositores y exploradores; figuras como Tamerlán, el señor de la guerra mongol que, en el siglo XIV ordenó la construcción de una pirámide de 70.000 cráneos humanos, u Oskar Schindler, el hombre cuyo desinteresado heroísmo salvó a más de mil judíos de la muerte a manos de la los nazis. Informativo, entretenido,...