El Milagro de Castel Di Sangro: Un Cuento de Pasion y Locura En El Corazon de Italia

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...

Il 1981 fu un anno importante. Importante per me, perché ancora una volta mi liberavo dalle catene dimettendomi dal mio impiego e scrivendo, per mia figlia, che sarebbe nata di lì a poco, o perlomeno così speravo. Anche la Francia tentava di liberarsi dalle sue catene, o almeno la Francia popolare, quella che lavoro e si alza presto. In entrambi i casi, per me e i lavoratori, la posta in gioco era una scommessa sul futuro, la cui parola libertà non era il minimo dei concetti. Scommessa rischiosa. Per quanto mi riguarda, la scommessa era vinta in anticipo; da un lato perché sapevo che...

La cantante chilena del Tercer Reich Mientras el mundo sucumbía a la II Guerra y Hitler causaba estragos, la cantante Rosita Serrano usaba su voz para poner parte de Europa a sus pies. Amada por el Tercer Reich, la llamaron El Ruiseñor Chileno y con ello comenzó una trayectoria que no tiene parangón en la memoria de nuestro país. Aunque en Chile las nuevas generaciones poco han escuchado su nombre, en Alemania aún se editan discos recopilatorios con sus canciones. Rosita intentó ser reconocida por sus compatriotas y replicar la misma popularidad que tuvo en tierras germanas, pero fue...

A woman living and communicating in multiple lands, Susana Chávez-Silverman conveys her cultural and linguistic displacement in humorous, bittersweet, and even tangible ways in this truly bilingual literary work. These meditative and lyrical pieces combine poignant personal confession, detailed daily observation, and a memorializing drive that shifts across time and among geocultural spaces. The author’s inventive and flamboyant use of Spanglish, a hybrid English-Spanish idiom, and her adaptation of the confessional "crónica" make this memoir compelling and powerful. Killer Crónicas...