Nana de la medusa

In this modern novel by Marina Perezagua, Don Quixote is disguised as C3P0 and Sancho Panza has chosen an Ewok suit to cross over to New York. In one of many chance encounters on their trip, a woman gives her Bible to Don Quixote who avidly reads it for a week. This reading inspires the adventures of the pair as they explore recognizable parts of the city today. In these short stories, New York appears as a big state where anything can happen.

In 1996 I celebrated a year of sobriety and began a journey of rebirth. That year I developed confidence in myself that previously I never experienced. I took my personal collection of notes, diaries, and tapes from my year in Vietnam and begin to organize them into a book. In 1997 I completed the manuscript and titled it One Heart One Mind: one man's memoir of a tour of Vietnam. The book not only dealt with my year in Vietnam but with the emotional cost of the war on my soul and psyche. With assistance from Jonathan Shay M.D., Ph.D., the author of Achilles in Vietnam (a book about combat...

El manuscrito es una original obra, escrita con un lenguaje altamente elaborado, que es resultado de una investigación amplia de quien lo escribe. El libro muestra una sólida estructura, que incluye una secuencia epistolar contenida entre poemas, que apuntan a imágenes hermosas de tinte surrealista. El mundo poético desarrollado refleja un gran dominio del tema y mucha destreza al mezclar referencias pictóricas, musicales, poéticas y de personajes históricos. Julieta Dobles, Paola Valverde, Alí Víquez Jurado Premio Eunice Odio 2016

Glenda Silva Vaca nos sumerge en una íntima vastedad de sueños, paisajes bucólicos llenos de árboles y pájaros, preguntas sin respuesta, mudanzas de piel o de geografía. Todos iinvocados en el oficio de verbo transparente y profundo, sanguíneo y pensante más allá de las circunstancias.

This famous and universally loved poem for daily living has inspired many generations of Buddhists and non-Buddhists since it was first composed in the 8th century by the famous Indian Buddhist master Shantideva. This new translation, made under the guidance of Geshe Kelsang Gyatso, conveys the great lucidity and poetic beauty of the original, while preserving its full impact and spiritual insight. Reading these verses slowly, while contemplating their meaning, has a profoundly liberating effect on the mind. The poem invokes special positive states of mind, moves us from suffering and...