Los_ojos_del_cielo

An account of the life and achievements, and ultimate political downfall, of Simon Bolivar, the great Liberator of Spanish America, noting important events and influences from his Caracas childhood to his exile and death

Íntima y realista, una visión única y personal de la maternidad narrada con desenfado y gracia. ¿Cuántas veces puede intentarse algo por última vez? Muchas, todas. La madre de Fantasticland es una potencia insistente. No para. Ni siquiera cuando no puede seguir. La nave de la voluntad ya se ha puesto en marcha, y en la cabina de mandos reina el desconcierto. ¿Qué quiere? A simple vista, quiere una hija en medio del amor, digamos un fruto. Pero no se desea sobre un lecho de tréboles. La amenaza bíblica asociada a la obstetricia tiene una variante precoz: se embarazará con dolor. Un...

This is a book about a French family in the eighties, vacationing in a motorhome through Italy, Portugal, Spain, Greece, Morocco... A personal story about the author in his youth. Its about his childhood as a lost paradise; a tribute from Ivan Jablonka to his parents and the relationship between generations.

In Almas en pena, chapolas negras, Fernando Vallejo recounts the life of Colombian poet Jose Asuncion Silva. This unusual biography is a phantasmagoric trip through Bogota at the end of the 19th century. After committing suicide in 1896, Asuncion Silva left Colombia ten of the most beautiful poems of the Spanish language, and to his creditors a sum of $210.000 in debt. A century after his death, Vallejo initiates a search through notaries' archives and libraries, and relying upon an abundance of documents and old newspapers, he begins to solve the mystery of the poet's suicide and his...