Giovanni y Erminia

A los lectores habituales de John Irving , conocido por sus complejas y largas novelas, quizá les sorprenda descubrir en La novia imaginaria a un autor de narraciones breves, de una simplicidad y de una concisión extraordinarias. Dividido en tres partes — Relatos autobiográficos , Narraciones y Homenajes —, este volumen reúne doce piezas literarias que cubren treinta años de escritura. Y en todas ellas está presente, con su proverbial ironía y malicia —esta vez referidas a sí mismo— y con modestia y sinceridad inesperadas, el autor que ha cautivado ya con sus novelas a tantos...

"What is a face, really? Its own photo? Its make-up? Or is it a face as painted by such or such painter? That which is in front? Inside? Behind? And the rest? Doesn't everyone look at himself in his own particular way?" With these words, Pablo Picasso described the revolutionary methods of painting and artistic perspective with which he challenged the ways people and the world were defined. His life was a similarly complex prism of people, places, and ideologies that spanned most of the twentieth century. Acclaimed scholar Mary Ann Caws provides in Pablo Picasso a fresh and concise...

"The Diplomite" is a compelling account of the author's life experiences growing up so far from home. From India to Vienna, Diana Carr was always an outsider, and learned what it is like to be the "other". This is a story about what it is like to be a young representative of the United States and staying calm in the face of danger. This is a story about how no matter what, the author's parents kept her family safe. This is a story about the strength and importance of family. Carr's father joined the Foreign Service in 1945. The world was in turmoil as it settled into the aftermath of World...

Una mirada desde dentro al conflicto sirio, por una de las pocas corresponsales españolas que ha estado en el país. La primavera árabe dio paso a situaciones muy complejas, ocultas al principio por el estallido de alegría popular. Quizá el caso más grave fuera el de Siria, donde una durísima guerra civil arrasó a una población civil bajo unas condiciones terribles. Mayte Carrasco es una de las pocas periodistas españolas que estuvo en el país, durante los meses decisivos de febrero y de agosto de 2012, y en Estaré en el Paraíso narra el sufrimiento de la población y el trasfondo ...