Alfonso López Michelsen

Momentos es un libro peculiar en el que se mezclan pensamientos breves, frutos de mecanismos de asociación libre con relatos reales y otros ficticios de temáticas no homogéneas, pero con hilos conductores como la amistad, el dolor, el cariño, el exilio, el amor, la libertad, la injusticia o la fantasía. Pero sobre todo es una invitación a la reflexión relacionada con preocupaciones humanas que trascienden el tiempo, como el envejecimiento, los desengaños, las pérdidas irreparables y la solidaridad entre las personas. En fin, es lectura que entretiene, atrapa y nos deja pensando.

Thirty years ago Piri Thomas made literary history with this lacerating, lyrical memoir of his coming of age on the streets of Spanish Harlem. Here was the testament of a born outsider: a Puerto Rican in English-speaking America; a dark-skinned morenito in a family that refused to acknowledge its African blood. Here was an unsparing document of Thomas's plunge into the deadly consolations of drugs, street fighting, and armed robbery--a descent that ended when the twenty-two-year-old Piri was sent to prison for shooting a cop. As he recounts the journey that took him from adolescence in El...

Más que un simple anecdotario o biografía, ésta es una historia profunda y honesta, que revela el espíritu de Felipe Cubillos, un hombre excepcional que anheló trascender y que forjó su propio destino en favor de cumplir un objetivo siempre vinculado a su compromiso con Chile.

From the graphic novel experts Brian Williamson and Jim McCarthy comes a new explosive book about the legendary heavy metal band Metallica that captures the essence and the troubles of the most successful metal band. From their initial underground success to a more commercial recognition, on into their Grammy wins and selling over 100 million albums, Metallica: Nothing Else Matters takes an emotional journey over two decades on the road and in the recording studio.