Biography & Memoirs
Brand: Duomo
EAN: 9788416261017
THE TENDER BAR
J. R. Moehringer grew up captivated by a voice. It was the voice of his father, a New York City disc jockey who vanished before J. R. spoke his first word. Sitting on the stoop, pressing an ear to the radio, J. R. would strain to hear in that plummy baritone the secrets of masculinity and identity. ..
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Brand: Obelisco
EAN: 9788491118770
The Dalai Lama
The first authorized biography of the Dalai Lama – an alternately inspiring and shocking story – of an acclaimed Tibetan scholar, with privileged access to the subject of his book. The Dalai Lama's message of peace and compassion resonates with people of all faiths and those of no faith. However, du..
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Brand: Edaf
EAN: 9788441442047
The World of Yesterday
These memoirs, written during his exile and following the news of the disaster caused by the Nazi regime, are both a recollection of the past and a warning for future generations, The World of Yesterday recalls the golden age of literary Vienna—its seeming permanence, its promise, and its devastatin..
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Brand: Anagrama
EAN: 9788433981042
Winter
The second volume in his autobiographical quartet based on the seasons, Winter is an achingly beautiful collection of daily meditations and letters addressed directly to Knaugsaard's unborn daughter. In preparation for her arrival, he takes stock of the world, seeing it as if for the first time. In ..
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Brand: Anagrama
EAN: 9788433981059
Spring
Spring is the recommencement of Knausgaard’s fantastic and spellbinding literary project of assembling a personal encyclopedia of the world addressed directly to his newly born daughter. But here Knausgaard must also tell his daughter the story of what happened during the time when her mother was pr..
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Brand: Herder
EAN: 9788425449376
Ignacio Ellacuria. Solidary Fraternity
This book is an invitation for the reader who wants to learn about the thought of this Jesuit, philosopher, theologian and martyr. The figure of Ignacio Ellacuría is fascinating because both his life and his death are the perfect example of his radical commitment to those most in need: the crucified..
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Brand: Anagrama
EAN: 9788433960351
James Joyce
Richard Ellmann has revised and expanded his definitive work on Joyce's life to include newly discovered primary material, including details of a failed love affair, a limerick about Samuel Beckett, a dream notebook, previously unknown letters, and much more. / Para escribir James Joyce, Richard El..
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Brand: Anagrama
EAN: 9788433977625
Koba the Fearful
Koba the Fearful is a memoir, a chronicle, a meditation on Stalin and his legacy; a political book while remaining personal. It focuses on an important weak point of twentieth-century thought: the tolerance of Western intellectuals to communism. Between the personal start and the personal end, Amis ..
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Brand: Almuzara
EAN: 9788418648052
The Tomb - Kidnapping in Venezuela
The politician and lawyer Antonio Ledezma, who was Mayor of the Metropolitan District of Caracas, narrates with extreme rigor how he was kidnapped, on two occasions, by the security organs of the Venezuelan regime, He describes the characteristics of the prisons used by the dictatorship to repress t..
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Brand: Impedimenta
EAN: 9788417553418
What is Africa to Me?
Maryse Condé takes up the story of her life and invites us to accompany her on the exciting journey that marked her youth: a journey that begins in Paris, with an accidental pregnancy and the abandonment of the man she loves, and that leads her to wander through different African countries in search..
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Brand: Acantilado
EAN: 9788495359667
The Little Virtues
In this collection of her finest and best-known short essays, Natalia Ginzburg explores both the mundane details and inescapable catastrophes of personal life with the grace and wit that have assured her rightful place in the pantheon of classic mid-century authors. Whether she writes of the loss of..
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Brand: Atico de los Libros
EAN: 9788417743239
Lenin
Since the birth of Soviet Russia, Vladimir Lenin has been viewed as a controversial figure, both revered and reviled for his rigid political ideals. Still, he continues to fascinate as a man who made history and who created the first Communist state, a model that would later be imitated by nearly ha..
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