SUEÑOS PRESTADOS

Se crió en la calle, en el vértigo sentimental de un hogar partido y entre las drogas y la delincuencia de un barrio sin movida madrileña. Huérfano y rebelde con un puñado de causas, tenía apenas doce años cuando esquivó la cornada de su propio futuro. Y en la verdad de la escuela taurina encontró el calor de una nueva familia, encauzó su rabia de potro desbocado y descubrió los valores que le hicieron marcar una época en el toreo. Retirado ya de los ruedos, aquel personaje al que siempre se calificó de enigmático se desnuda en este libro para revelar lo que jamás ha contado y...

Maryse Condé takes up the story of her life and invites us to accompany her on the exciting journey that marked her youth: a journey that begins in Paris, with an accidental pregnancy and the abandonment of the man she loves, and that leads her to wander through different African countries in search of that identity that was already beginning to glimpse with the discovery of blackness. Côte d'Ivoire, Guinea, Ghana and Senegal make up the polyhedral scene of the vital transformation of Maryse, who walks through the revolutionary circles of African socialism and surrenders to the fever of...

The definitive annotated translation of Marcus Aurelius's Meditations Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121-180 CE) was the sixteenth emperor of Rome -- and by far the most powerful man in the world. Yet he was also an intensely private person, with a rich interior life and one of the wisest minds of his generation. He collected his thoughts in notebooks, gems that have come to be called his Meditations. Never intended for publication, the work has proved an inexhaustible source of wisdom and one of the most important Stoic texts of all time. In often passionate language, the entries range from...