A la búsqueda del secreto de la vida

"The Diplomite" is a compelling account of the author's life experiences growing up so far from home. From India to Vienna, Diana Carr was always an outsider, and learned what it is like to be the "other". This is a story about what it is like to be a young representative of the United States and staying calm in the face of danger. This is a story about how no matter what, the author's parents kept her family safe. This is a story about the strength and importance of family. Carr's father joined the Foreign Service in 1945. The world was in turmoil as it settled into the aftermath of World...

Called “a masterpiece” by The New York Times, the acclaimed trilogy from Tove Ditlevsen, a pioneer in the field of genre-bending confessional writing. Tove Ditlevsen is today celebrated as one of the most important and unique voices in twentieth-century Danish literature, and The Copenhagen Trilogy (1969–71) is her acknowledged masterpiece. Childhood tells the story of a misfit child’s single-minded determination to become a poet; Youth describes her early experiences of sex, work, and independence. Dependency picks up the story as the narrator embarks on the first of her four...

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...

Únicos, emprendedores, conquistadores, creativos, ingeniosos, fuertes, perseverantes... Personajes célebres comparecen en estas páginas bajo la mirada irónica y curiosa de una de nuestras más exitosas cronistas. Una mirada fresca a los hombres que han dejado huella a lo largo del tiempo. Guadalupe Loaeza se adentra con paso firme en el mundo masculino para traer hasta nosotros, con su habitual ingenio, el retrato de individuos de diferentes épocas y países cuya energía creativa, inteligencia o capacidad de liderazgo les aseguró un lugar en la memoria colectiva. En estas páginas...