Mi relativo tío Camilo José Cela (Verdades y mentiras)

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....

A survivor of the Cuban Revolution recounts his pre-war childhood as the religiously devout son of a judge, and describes the conflict's violent and irrevocable impact on his friends, family, and native land.

Se trata del recorrido de mi vida desde mi infancia y sin parar en detalles, menciona específicamente situaciones que de alguna manera fueron determinantes en el cambio que le precedió.Casi siempre un cambio dio paso a otro y constantemente me ví en una nueva dirección que interrumpidamente dió causa a comenzar una nueva vida. Y así en esa espiral casi constante de sucesos y calamidades se desarrolla cada nuevo acontecimiento, con cada viaje, con cada etapa histórica. No hablo de todas las cosas que afectaron mis memorias pues varios libros hubieran sido necesarios, y a propósito hay...

I "write my songs/ so people can sing them to me/and the day people fail me/ that day I 'm going to cry... These are famous verses whose origin we are going to find out in this book, which rescues unknown anecdotes from the composer. Reading it is, in the words of his daughter Paloma, "go on singing his songs to do not fail him."