EL MARAVILLOSO MUNDO SOCIALISTA DE HEYNA

Una niña inteligente y atrevida, Satrapi--hija de Marxistas radicales i viz-nieta del ultimo emperador de Iran--se hace testigo de una niǹez unica envuelta con la historia de su pais.

Philip Norman's family considered themselves genteel yet somehow became involved in the opportunistic world of seaside trade on the Isle of Wight. With masterly skill, Norman recreates his upbringing among this gallery of social misfits - his handsome but unstable father Clive, once a dashing RAF officer, now a reluctant showman at the end of Ryde Pier, his pub-owning Uncle Phil, who dresses as a woman every New Year's Eve, and his irresistible Grandma Norman who presides over her rock kiosk and rules the troubled family like a Mafia don. The year is 1953. While Britain celebrates the...

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...

Doble esplendor es un relato autobiográfico escrito por Constancia de la Mora, nieta de Antonio Maura. Constancia de la Mora nació en Madrid, en la España de comienzos del siglo XX, un entorno en el que una mujer perteneciente a una clase social elevada estaba llamada, casi necesariamente, a un temprano matrimonio de conveniencia y a una esencial ignorancia sobre la realidad social y política circundante. Poco después de alcanzar su mayoría de edad, toma conciencia de que esa «ignorancia feliz» en la que ha sido educada la incapacita para afrontar sus propios problemas y para conocer...