Alfonso López Michelsen

Un libro breve y conmovedor. Una carta abrierta al padre que no sobrevivió a la deportación a Auschwitz-Birkenau. El dolor de la pérdida y en el terrible sentimiento de culpa que acompaña siempre a quienes consiguen salir con vida del infierno, pero dejan atrás a los que aman. Hay libros imprescindibles que dejan una marca indeleble, que aun después de haberlos terminado permanecen vívidos en nuestro recuerdo. Este libro breve e intenso es uno de ellos. Marceline Loridan-Ivens, que ha tenido una larga y reconocida carrera como realizadora cinematográfica, fue deportada a...

Frank McCourt, ganador del premio Pulitzer, escribe su autobiografía en la que el esfuerzo y la tenacidad lo llevan a alcanzar sus objetivos.

José Luis Trueba investigates the controversial life of the Tlaotani ("King" in Aztec culture) Moctezuma II, especially in the lesser-known events that preceded the Spanish conquests. From the dangerous circumstances of his birth to his encounter with Hernán Cortés, passing through his education, military career, and political actions, Moctezuma is a complex portrait of a man that passed from adored to defeated in dizzying succession.

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...