El año que viene estamos en Cuba

Gustavo Perez examines relationships, sex, and Cuban American life in this collection of accessible poems. He handles both Spanish and English with seamless assurance. Gustavo Perez Firmat was born in Havana, Cuba, and raised in Miami, Floria.

En el relato de su vida, el autor intenta destacar los retos que encara cualquier emigrante; en este caso, emigrar tres veces y a paises con culturas muy diferentes. Lleva al lector a traves de etapas de grandes cambios politicos y sociales en los tres paises. Se destaca dramaticamente el periodo de internamiento en un campo de prisioneros politicos durante su estadia en Cuba. La biografia del autor resulta unica, ya que se desarrolla en tres paises: primero en Espana, donde transcurre su ninez; despues en Cuba, donde vive las mas extraordinarias experiencias en las prisiones politicas;...

Artista de la exageración, maestro de la nada, monómano incorregible, moralista, aguafiestas, vulnerable, depresivo, sensible, alegre, satírico, contradictorio..., la lista de epítetos que, en algún momento, se ha aplicado a Thomas Bernhard llenaría varias páginas. Y todos ellos le convenían. Sin embargo, la figura de Thomas Bernhard sigue agigantándose después de su muerte y es ya indiscutible que se trata de uno de los grandes escritores del siglo XX. Pero, curiosamente, su vida presenta todavía abundantes zonas de sombra, sobre todo desde que la crítica reparó en que sus así...

I became a father at fifteen. At my young age, I wanted to play at being an adult, and the responsibilities were coming day by day in my new chapter as a father. During my boy's first birthday, I had the opportunity, over dinner at my house, to tell my mother that I would soon marry Elizabeth. She took my hand and said, "You two are too young to take such a huge step. Life is just beginning for both of you, and you still have a very long way to go and meet many more people." Regardless of her words that night, my decision to continue with the civil wedding remained solid, and a couple of...

More has been written about Lorca than about any other Spanish writer except Cervantes. In an attempt to explain when, how and why one of the most important poets of the 20th century was murdered, Ian Gibson's exhaustive research tries to uncover the truth about one of Spain's Civil War's biggest mysteries ? the death by shooting of Federico Garc?a Lorca by Nationalist thugs. Gibson's biography of Lorca is currently the front-runner for the definitive Lorca biography.