The Wrong House

Una noche con el servicio secreto de los Estados Unidos. El único libro que revelará la historia completa de Dania Londoño, contada por ella misma.

Originaria de una familia venida a menos (judía por parte de padre), habría podido casarse; sin embargo, prefirió ingresar en un convento. Teresa pretende asumir esta dolorosa elección —casi le cuesta la vida y arruinó definitivamente su salud— con todo su rigor: se «descalza», obtiene de las autoridades el permiso para reformar el Carmelo, convence a otras religiosas para que la sigan. Podría haberse contentado con esto y vivir lejos del mundo una experiencia espiritual excepcional, pero Teresa también es una mujer de acción. En pocos años, funda dieciséis carmelos en...

"Three years of captivity among the Patagones" is an exceptional ethnological document, but to its documentary value it adds the attraction and intensity of an adventures novel. It narrates the extraordinary experience of Auguste Guinnard, a young French immigrant who, around 1850, gets lost in the Pampas and is captured by native tribes who considered every foreigner a foe. Bound to a cruel slavery among the last nomads of Patagonia, Guinnard, was forced to sleep in the ground, and survive naked feeding from raw meat and fresh blood. In spite of being despised, and often chastised even by...

"What is a face, really? Its own photo? Its make-up? Or is it a face as painted by such or such painter? That which is in front? Inside? Behind? And the rest? Doesn't everyone look at himself in his own particular way?" With these words, Pablo Picasso described the revolutionary methods of painting and artistic perspective with which he challenged the ways people and the world were defined. His life was a similarly complex prism of people, places, and ideologies that spanned most of the twentieth century. Acclaimed scholar Mary Ann Caws provides in Pablo Picasso a fresh and concise...