Voces De Mi Gente

Un hombre violento y agresivo, con um corazón frío y una mente criminal... una estadística más. Él no era apenas um traficante de drogas, él era el que se quedaba en la esquina dirigiendo todo. Trabajaba en las calles, vendiendo crack a quien quisiese comprar. Él tenía que luchar sus propias batallas para mantenerse vivo.

"This is a story about how I was saved by love at a time when most people considered me beyond rescue," begins Victor Rivas Rivers in this powerful chronicle of how he escaped the war zone of domestic violence -- too often regarded as a "private family matter" -- and went on to become a good man, a film star, and a prominent activist. The Cuban-born author begins by recalling when he was kidnapped, along with three of his siblings, by his own father, who abandoned Victor's pregnant mother and took the children on a cross-country hell-ride that nearly ended in a fatal collision. This journey...

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La monumental biografía de una de las mujeres más poderosas y transgresoras de todos los tiempos, por la autora que cautivó a los lectores con Cisnes salvajes. Uno de los mejores libros de 2013 según The New York Times. A los dieciséis años, Cixí fue elegida una de las numerosas concubinas del emperador. Pasó entonces a vivir en la Ciudad Prohibida de Pekín, rodeada de eunucos -de uno de los cuales se enamoraría más tarde, con consecuencias trágicas-, y su astucia le permitió no sólo sobrevivir en la corte sino también escalar posiciones hasta convertirse, tras el nacimiento de ...