El pecado de El Rucio

"This is a story about how I was saved by love at a time when most people considered me beyond rescue," begins Victor Rivas Rivers in this powerful chronicle of how he escaped the war zone of domestic violence -- too often regarded as a "private family matter" -- and went on to become a good man, a film star, and a prominent activist. The Cuban-born author begins by recalling when he was kidnapped, along with three of his siblings, by his own father, who abandoned Victor's pregnant mother and took the children on a cross-country hell-ride that nearly ended in a fatal collision. This journey...

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Lifebuilder of Religion, the greatest of masters, heir of Muhammad, many were the names with which Ibn Arabi, renowned Sufi mystic born in Murcia in the second half of the twelfth century, in the height of Arab culture, whose ideological thinking is expanded by the different ramifications of knowledge.

Libro de reclamaciones es un registro de tormentas, el testimonio de alguien que ha logrado dominar una pertinaz e inflexible voluntad de autodestrucción. El recuerdo de un personaje heterodoxo empeñado en pasear por la cuerda floja, subordinado al caos de quien pretende burlar el orden lógico. Un alegato ético en contra de la ruindad, el egoísmo, la hipocresía y la brutalidad, escrito desde el rigor y la impiedad con su familia, sus colegas y consigo mismo. Dibujadas en concisas y rápidas pinceladas, el autor relata historias muy diversas sutilmente engarzadas al discurso de su...