Retrato de Don Juan mirando al mar

Madrugadas y Otros Pecados nace desde la sinceridad, la nostalgia, la impotencia, la frustración ante el abandono por parte del ser amado, pero también nace desde ese sentimiento inexplicable de plenitud que se alcanza con el amor. En el presente libro, Carmen Ferrando escribe desde la experiencia, trasladando a la ficción la crudeza de lo real. Es un libro para leer, pero, sobre todo, para sentir.

I am delighted to see this second book in the Bridges Series come to print. I originally conceived of this series of books to be a bridge between two cultures, a bridge between colleagues, friends and fellow writers - two Cubans and two Canadians in each book. Ever since the inception of the CCLA in 2004 we have tried to live up to our mandate: The mandate of the Canada Cuba Literary Alliance is to advance cultural solidarity between Canada and Cuba through the creative expression of poetry, prose, art and photography. This book will evidence our ongoing success. For me personally this book...

The Essence of a Young Poet is about a teenager (Juan Manuel) that started facing a lot of problems and heartaches as soon as he entered high school and encountered reality face to face. Throughout the book he goes through a lot of shifts of emotions as he encounters those problems. On his freshmen year he fell in love with a junior that played with his feelings and then broke his heart; as a result of that, he fell into a deep depression and started heading toward a dark path. Without the presence of his father, he had nobody to turn to that he could trust and express himself to, to help him ...

Opus 112 es un libro multifacético, presenta como su antecesor, Opus 111, poemas y epigramas de los temas más variados, incluye, a diferencia de aquel, series que engarzan las letras con la música, a partir de los 24 Preludios de Chopin, de los Cuadros de una Exposición de Mussorgski entre otros. Incluye también 4 cuentos cortos, uno de ellos es una fantasía donde 3 grandes compositores y 2 escritores del romanticismo, se reúnen en una pequeña isla del Rhin para un encuentro veraniego donde la música es la protagonista. Textos variados en homenaje a grandes de las letras y la cultura ...