Felipe Cubillos. El desafío de un hombre que quiso ser un héroe

El Mar y el PolizónEl dictador cubano ante la presión de la democracia internacional, decide liberar a un grupo de presos políticos. EE.UU. aprueba la relación de los mismos. Al llegar a Miami, todos eran criminales, la mayoría condenados a perpetua. Pese al engaño los EE.UU. los admite. Serán controlados, no deben salir del país, de hacerlo pierden el derecho de asilo. Uno de ellos, que dice ser amigo de Bob Marley decide quebrar esa restricción para cobrar una deuda de sangre en México y volver pero...El comisario del "Santa Cruz II" en uso de seis meses de vacaciones acumuladas...

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...

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En Morir, Cory Taylor se expresa con la urgencia y la sinceridad descarnada de quien sabe que le queda muy poco tiempo de vida. La escritora australiana tiene sesenta años y un melanoma en fase terminal. Sin sentimentalismos y con grandes dosis de humor, repasa la compleja historia de su familia, hace balance de su vida y, sobre todo, medita abiertamente sobre la experiencia de la propia muerte, ese «monstruo silencioso» que las sociedades occidentales han convertido en un tabú. Una obra de calado filosófico y literario que, como El año del pensamiento mágico, de Joan Didion, está...