La luna de Juan

Las eternas “Fábulas de Bidpai”, reunidas hace unos 2.000 años en el Panchatantra traducidas desde Etiopía hasta China , y que inspiraron a autores tan diversos como Esopo, La Fontaine, Llull, y Chaucer, han sido retomadas por Ramsay Wood quien las vuelve a contar con un lenguaje moderno y divertido, respetuoso y energético.

Es una novela basada en las vivencias de Ignacio Arguiñarena, quien nos conduce desde su niñez en un caserío navarro, hasta los últimos años de su vida, ya radicado en la campiña uruguaya. Campesino de nacimiento y constructor de oficio, el protagonista hizo la guerra como requeté del Tercio Lacar, se desempeñó como listero en la Cantera Orobe, en Alsasua, donde los prisioneros "rojos" eran explotados hasta su último aliento, debió recurrir al "extraperlo" para poder alimentar a su familia y por fin, cansado de la persecución de las autoridades y desilusionado de aquellos que...

The summer has really bad for Manolito. He is condemned, once again, to spend the holidays in his small flat in Carabanchel Alto with his mother, his grandfather and his little brother. And he has failed mathematics, to his mother's chagrin. Manolito looks forward to the arrival of his father, a truck driver, to take the family to the beach.

This book collects for the first time a compendium of poems written in English by brigadists, sanitary personnel and journalists that participated or were involved in the Spanish Civil War, as well as by intellectuals, writers and journalists that supported the republican cause from the outside. The anthology starts from a previous historical framework in which this poetic legacy has been contextualized, to know where, when, how and why these poems were written, and who wrote them or who were their protagonists. All these analyses have served to understand the causes of why this poetic legacy ...