Sueños Destruidos

"Exceptional bridge between anglophone and francophone cultures, the historian Herbert Lottman explores the relationship that brought Oscar Wilde with Paris, which was deployed along the half-life of the author of The Picture of Dorian Gray and The Importance of Being Earnest. Indeed, Oscar Wilde (Dublin, 1854-Paris, 1900) visited the French capital on numerous occasions, the first one in his twenty years before joining Oxford, and in 1884, for their honeymoon after his wedding to Constance Lloyd."

"No soy escritora. No pretendo hacer literatura. Sólo quiero transmitir unas vivencias personales, unas reflexiones propias [...] En definitiva, son relatos redactados por una persona sorda. Hablan de cómo percibo, pienso y siento el mundo. [...] Espero que la experiencia vivida pueda ser de alguna utilidad para aquellas personas que inicien la lectura, les sea agradable y que, al menos, disfruten tanto como yo mientras escribía estas páginas.” Pepita Cedillo

El saldo de dolor y desolación que dejaron los bombardeos atómicos en las ciudades japonesas de Hiroshima y Nagasaki está consignado en estos testimonios de los sobrevivientes que recrean los instantes de horror padecidos tras las detonaciones.

Acclaimed around the world and a national best-seller, this is the definitive work on Che Guevara, the dashing rebel whose epic dream was to end poverty and injustice in Latin America and the developing world through armed revolution. Jon Lee Anderson's biography traces Che's extraordinary life, from his comfortable Argentine upbringing to the battlefields of the Cuban revolution, from the halls of power in Castro's government to his failed campaign in the Congo and assassination in the Bolivian jungle. Anderson has had unprecedented access to the personal archives maintained by Guevara's...