Mis queridos normales

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...

This is an enlightening story of a true, behind-the-curtains life. We intended to keep one secret until the end, as you will see below, but it was too late. Sara died. Almost every single word of this book was from Sara's own handwritten script hidden in the last place you would imagine, knowing Sara Jane was afraid of heights.

When I saw her again later, I revised my first judgment. I fell under the spell of her "Maori charm." Notwithstanding all the intermixture, the Tahitian type was still very pure in her. And then the memory of her ancestor, the great chief Tati, gave her as well as her brother and all her family an appearance of truly imposing grandeur. She had the majestic sculptural form of her race, ample and at the same time gracious. The arms were like the two columns of a temple, simple, straight; and the whole bodily form with the long horizontal line of the shoulder, and the vast height terminating...

A lo largo de múltiples puntos de vista y experiencias, este libro nos muestra cómo vivió el mundo la situación que desató la pandemia entre marzo y junio del año 2020. Dos amantes en el mismo edificio separados por un balcón, una prostituta que no puede ejercer, un pescador alejado de su mar, un conocido escándalo sexual que se hizo viral, la impactante imagen de la Plaza de San Pedro vacía o el ingenioso invento para dar abrazos de plástico. Los lectores rememorarán a lo largo de estos breves cuentos muchas situaciones que han marcado nuestras vidas para siempre.