Bruce Dickinson

In Almas en pena, chapolas negras, Fernando Vallejo recounts the life of Colombian poet Jose Asuncion Silva. This unusual biography is a phantasmagoric trip through Bogota at the end of the 19th century. After committing suicide in 1896, Asuncion Silva left Colombia ten of the most beautiful poems of the Spanish language, and to his creditors a sum of $210.000 in debt. A century after his death, Vallejo initiates a search through notaries' archives and libraries, and relying upon an abundance of documents and old newspapers, he begins to solve the mystery of the poet's suicide and his...

Retrato sociológico y humano de las generaciones que vivieron los duros años de la postguerra española. Lleno de personajes, situaciones y anécdotas propuestas como excusa para hacernos recalar en un mismo puerto: el de las emociones y sentimientos que, en la infancia y adolescencia, son tan comunes a cualquier generación de cualquier país. El lector se verá implicado en un mundo que forma parte de la historia menuda: la de los ciudadanos-transeúntes-que nunca aparece en los libros de cantos dorados de la Historia, pero son siempre los primeros llamados a filas. Texto de gran carga...

People remain fascinated by her love affairs, her thirty-year relationship with the detective fiction writer Dashiell Hammett, and her visits to Spain during its civil war and to Russia during World War II."--BOOK JACKET.

One day, in a tiny Methodist chapel, he heard the call of God and immediately began the work of making sure that everyone knew that they had to 'only believe'. Over the last 50 years, he has become the principal figure in the growth of the Pentecostal movement, leading missions all over the world.