Rafael Cadenas, Premio FIL de Literatura en Lenguas Romances 2009

This is the true story of a family forced to live halfway across the world from their homeland. Alice Herdan-Zuckmayer and her husband Carl, lived in Germany before the Nazis forced the couple to flee with their two daughters. After finding Backwoods Farms in Vermont, Alice wrote this memoir about their time there building chicken coops and breaking up duck fights. Despite endless work, brutal winters and melancholy, she discovered that they had found a home.

Las personas que durante su infancia sufrieron abusos pueden volverse adictas al sufrimiento y al dolor. Esta es la historia verídica de un hombre de éxito que tuvo que luchar a brazo partido contra él mismo para librarse de la más terrible adicción que alguien puede padecer.

Este libro es la crónica de la relación entre un escritor y una ciudad. Es también un viaje por el tiempo, ese tiempo que nadie percibió ni describió como Julio Cortázar. El vínculo de Cortázar con Buenos Aires es central en la constitución de su personalidad, de su literatura, de su mirada del mundo, afirma Diego Tomasi. Cortázar por Buenos Aires busca al escritor en la ciudad y camina de su mano. Buenos Aires por Cortázar busca a la ciudad en sus libros y en sus palabras. ¿Cuántos días estuvo Cortázar en Buenos Aires? ¿Qué hizo durante esos días? ¿Con quiénes se reunió? ...

As an actress, Diana Quick was forever trying on the mask of other people's lives - raiding her own memory to service the character she was playing. Coming from a large, noisy family in Kent that seemed to be plain-speaking and straightforward, she was astonished to find on her beloved father's death that his childhood in India was far from idyllic. She was then thunderstruck to hear that he was to have a requiem mass. She had no idea he was Catholic. She discovered that his stepmother had got rid of him and his sister upon marrying his father and that he had grown up in almost total...