Exilios en el mundo contemporáneo: vida y destino

A monumentally informed and irresistibly opinionated guide to the most un-Spanish city in Spain, from the bestselling author of The Fatal Shore. In these pages, Robert Hughes scrolls through Barcelona's often violent history; tells the stories of its kings, poets, magnates, and revolutionaries; and ushers readers through municipal landmarks that range from Antoni Gaudi's sublimely surreal cathedral to a postmodern restaurant with a glass-walled urinal. The result is a work filled with the attributes of Barcelona itself: proportion, humor, and seny—the Catalan word for triumphant common...

Vida, pasión y muerte en Pisagua, está llamado a constituirse en un libro clásico. Esto dicho en el sentido que, por primera vez, se publica un libro con la historia de este puerto-caleta ubicado en el Norte Grande de Chile. Desde la prehistoria hasta fines del siglo XX, el lector podrá apreciar los diversos hitos históricos que le ha tocado vivir a Pisagua. En la dictadura de Pinochet se transformó, dos veces, en un campo de concentración. La fosa clandestina es la muestra de la violación de los derechos humanos. Este libro es también un registro dramático del ocaso y de la...

Esta magnífica obra trata del amor que sentía el gran cacique Guarionex por la hermosa taina Loarina. Pero este gran amor no era correspondido, pues Loarina amaba a su vez al soldado español Cristobal de Sotomayor. Al sentirse rechazado, Guarionex reta a un duelo a muerte a Sotomayor, que termina con graves consecuencias para ambos...

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