CIRO EL GRANDE: UN GENTIL PROVIDENCIAL EN LA HISTORIA DE LA SALVACIÓN

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Located halfway between Los Angeles and Yuma, Arizona, Indio came into being as a railroad town in 1876 when the Southern Pacific Railroad completed this last link in its southern transcontinental route. Settling this arid land took ingenuity and courage, and Indio's early residents had both. In the 1930s, Indio became a mining town when 92 miles of tunnel were dug through its eastern mountains for the Los Angeles Aqueduct, the largest construction project in the United States during the Depression. World War II brought Gen. George Patton's Desert Tank Corps to train nearby and crowd into...

Cuando Mary W. Shelley escribió Frankenstein (1818), una de las obras clave del Romanticismo europeo, no podía ni tna solo imaginar que su delirio novelesco llegaría a ser algún día posible.l su novela pretendía ser, ante todo, una relectura de los viejos mitos de creación a la luz de la estética romántica. Pero acaso, sin darse cuenta, esa relectura remitía fundamentalmente a la técnica y el progreso, nuevos dioses de Occidente. No era el logos místico del Evangelio de San Juan ni el saber hermético de rabino Löv lo que animaba la obra del Dr Victor Frankentein, sino la ciencia.

Emotiva historia de tres jóvenes mujeres que fueron confinadas por los Nazis a un campo de trabajo y que ocultaron su embarazo durante todo su calvario, enfrentándose así al horror con la pasión por la vida y el amor. Sus hijos nacieron pocos días antes de la liberación del campo, escapando por poco al exterminio, y pese a su debilidad física (pesaban menos de 1,5 kilos) y a la fragilidad de sus madres, apenas esqueletos vivientes, lograron sobrevivir. Esta es la historia de estas tres familias.