Las Mil Y Una Novias de Josaphat

Biography with reminiscence and analysis in the tenor's own words. The result of the collaboration between an acclaimed journalist, who is passionate about opera, and the great tenor, who is passionate about his art, has produced a book that instructs while it entertains.

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...

Indira Gandhi fue una líder carismática que guio a la India, uno de los países más poblados y complejos del mundo, hacia la libertad y el progreso. Su historia es la de una mujer fuerte y decidida, que logró acceder a las grandes esferas políticas y ser respetada y admirada pese a la discriminación imperante. Siempre fiel a sus inquebrantables ideales y propósitos, y dispuesta a asumir con valentía la responsabilidad y el peso de sus actos, se convirtió en una de las figuras políticas que marcaron el siglo XX.

José Luis Trueba investigates the controversial life of the Tlaotani ("King" in Aztec culture) Moctezuma II, especially in the lesser-known events that preceded the Spanish conquests. From the dangerous circumstances of his birth to his encounter with Hernán Cortés, passing through his education, military career, and political actions, Moctezuma is a complex portrait of a man that passed from adored to defeated in dizzying succession.