Edie

The overthrow of Spanish rule and the birth of new republican governments in northern South America at the beginning of the nineteenth century were in large part the work of one man—Simón Bolívar. Bolívar was not only the soldier who built a patriot army from a small band of exiles and led them victoriously across Venezuela and down the spine of the Andes as far as Potosí; he was also the statesman who framed the new republics that sprang to life after the defeat of the Spanish and who called the Congress of Panama in hopes of making real his dream of uniting all the South American...

El libro está formado por 47 capítulos cortos. Cada uno de ellos versa sobre una de las 47 películas interpretadas por la famosa y mítica María Félix, de las que hablan la propia actriz, los directores y actores con los que trabajó, críticos cinematográf

Pacorrito Migajas, es un granuja de siete años, huérfano y desamparado que un día ve una muñeca en un escaparate y se enamora de ella. Sin embargo, alguien la compra y Pacorrito la busca hasta encontrarla en una casa, donde logra entrar y la busca hasta tropezar con su amada, esta yace olvidada en el suelo. Consigue huir con ella hasta ponerse a salvo, la abraza y se queda dormido. Cuando despierta, ella ha cobrado vida.

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...