Biography & Memoirs
Brand: Almuzara
EAN: 9788418346552
The disappearance of Agatha Christie
In this book, readers will find the most surprising questions and answers about the biographies of some of the most prominent writers of world literature, such as Agatha Christie, Mary Shelley, Yukio Mishima and Arthur Conan Doyle, who fulfill the topic that reality surpasses Fiction. / ¿Imaginan a..
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Brand: Batiscafo
EAN: 9788417553883
Desirada
What happens when self-love coexists with pain and vanity? How can you live in the mystery and restlessness of not having a story to tell? Maryse Condé answers these questions from the story of three generations of island women united by the force of blood, abuse and violence. This novel is also Mar..
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Brand: Anagrama
EAN: 9788433908063
The Younger Sister
Silvina Ocampo is one of the most exquisite, talented figures of literature in Spanish. The meaning behind much of her work is a mystery; similarly, very little is known about her private life. In this book, Mariana Enriquez looks intensely at the life of someone that lived with the desire to remain..
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Brand: Anagrama
EAN: 9788433964564
The Recovering
With its deeply personal and seamless blend of memoir, cultural history, literary criticism, and reportage, The Recovering turns our understanding of the traditional addiction narrative on its head, demonstrating that the story of recovery can be every bit as electrifying as the train wreck itself. ..
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Brand: Almuzara
EAN: 9788418709517
The Intense Life
Zoé Valdés grew up in Havana back in the sixties, as a restless and sappy girl, between the deprivations and the iron control of the Castro dictatorship. At that time, she did not know that, a few years later, she would become the most famous Cuban writer of her time. But the yearning for freedom, a..
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Brand: Edaf
EAN: 9788441436169
Cervantes' Youth
Most of Cervantes' biographers have tried to recount his character and his myth instead of the adventures of the man: the scarcity of documentary evidence about his life and the many references in his work seemed to indicate that this was the only way proceed. But the biography proposed by Professor..
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Brand: Urano
EAN: 9788415732112
Miki Roqué's Light
On March 4, 2011, Miki Roque was diagnosed with a malignant tumor in his pelvis. He died almost 16 months after being only 23 years old. During this delicate process, a soccer player help leading each of the decisions, leaving messages, teachings, moral values, and transmitting a higher energy. He e..
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Brand: Edaf
EAN: 9788441436930
Cervantes Maturity
In his second volume of the biography of Miguel de Cervantes, professor José Manuel Lucía Megías places Cervantes on his return from captivity in Algiers, making a living as an officer of the court. He acted as a discreet messenger in Oran, a tax collector, a judge of his Majesty, and, sometimes a..
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Brand: Anagrama
EAN: 9788433977908
My Struggle
This book introduces American readers to the international literary sensation that is the six-volume autobiographical novel by Karl Ove Knausgaard. It has already been anointed a Proustian masterpiece and is the rare work of literary originality that is intensely readable. / Karl Ove Knausgård está..
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Brand: Gedisa
EAN: 9788416919222
The Silent Woman: Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes
Sylvia Plath has been one of the great literary figures of the twentieth century, whose work has not yet exhausted the inspiration of her readers. But behind the appearance of the beautiful, blonde American housewife, with which the poet liked to present herself in her most successful years, are hid..
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Brand: Edaf
EAN: 9788441438903
Cervantes' Plenitude
The biography of Cervantes is full of myths and legends. Professor José Manuel Lucía Megías, rescues the man Miguel de Cervantes in the last years of his life. This is the third volume that culminates the most current and complete biography of Miguel de Cervantes. / La biografía de Cervantes está p..
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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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