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Sinopsis de Fite-Tu... un gitano andaluz! La vida de un mozo labriego nacido en 1900 en Andalucía, que dejó sus tierras, sus olivares, su casa, para huir apremiado por la dictadura de 1923 que saqueaba las propiedades y la esperanza de los campesinos, sumiéndolos en una hambruna total. La historia de un joven Gitano andaluz, su mujer y su hijita, secando las lágrimas del desarraigo en una mantilla de ilusiones y miedos, en el fondo de un buque que los dejó en el puerto del desamparo. Un romántico melancólico y gruñón que pasó su vida en Argentina, añorando el cielo andaluz,...

Collected here are journal entries culled from 18 notebooks that Allen Ginsberg kept during the 1950s and early 1960s, when he and his fellow Beat poets led an insurrection that profoundly altered the American literary and cultural landscapes. The diary notes, dreams, poems, reflections, and thoughts included in this book intimately illuminate Ginsberg's travels and his mental journeys. They reveal conversations with William Carlos Williams, drug experiences, a chance meeting with Dylan Thomas, stays in Mexico and the cities of San Francisco and New York, first impressions of Naked Lunch,...

It's a pretty long story, Primo Levi tells a classroom of children, so I'll try to make it simple. This hauntingly illustrated comic tells the story of the Italian Jewish chemist who survived the camps at Auschwitz against all odds. Matteo Mastragostino draws on historical research, interviews, and Levi's own landmark books to piece together a fictionalized yet profoundly intimate portrait of a courageous figure. In the scene that emerges, Levi visits a group of schoolchildren to retell his life story and keep the memory of the Holocaust alive, answering innocent questions with hard truths....

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...