Llanto y rabia de un pequeño Maltratado

From the candid listeners of his beginning as the jubilant and Mediterranean singer, more than five decades have passed. Many of Joan Manuel Serrat's songs are stuck in the memory of various generations. They have become hymns and luminous landscapes in our lives, of dreams and desires that have crossed between singer and audience. The author understands the true universality of an artist is always rooted in his origins. Starting at Serrat's own chronicles as a child, in a melting pot neighborhood, mixed like his own Catalan and Aragon family, it tells the story of a singer that transformed...

Great men were once children, and perhaps, they even desired to have everything we now have at arm's reach. Some were born into poverty; others were orphaned and cared for by relatives or institutions. Extreme scarcity or social turmoil was often a part of their daily lives. However, these greats allowed themselves to envision a better future and follow their dreams. They worked incessantly to make their visions a reality. As a result, they've gifted humanity with proof that dreams do come true.

Las entrevistas de Mauricio Silva Guzmán a doce admirados y, en muchos casos, venerados personajes del mundo del deporte, además de ofrecernos un acabado perfil humano y psicológico de cada uno de ellos, recrean momentos decisivos de la vida colombiana en las dos últimas décadas, durante las cuales el deporte, para bien y para mal, se mantuvo muy cerca del acontecer histórico nacional. La manera ágil y sin embargo profunda, minuciosa y al mismo tiempo amena con que este apasionado tejedor de historias encara y conduce las entrevistas, ha dado como resultado una antológica galería...

¿Cómo surgieron las mayores estrellas de los Juegos Olímpicos? Sus orígenes e inicios. Todos los obstáculos a los que se sobrepusieron. Su vida antes de la gloria. La infancia de los dioses del Olimpo. Simone Biles en adopción, Michael Phelps detestando la piscina, Usain Bolt negándose a competir por miedo a perder, Nadia Comaneci detectada en un recreo de la escuela, Yelena Isinbáyeva deprimida porque su estatura la hizo dejar la gimnasia. Historias y anécdotas fascinantes detrás de cada uno de estos portentos de los Juegos Olímpicos.