Tiempo de incertidumbre

The "Lazarillo." offers a sound and credible vision of the colonial life between 1771 and 1773, as well as practical details of the trip from Montevideo up to Lima, through Buenos Aires, Cordoba, Salta, Potosi, Chuquisaca and Cuzco. According to Jose Luis Busaniche, the argentine born historian, "through its pages flows a new feeling about nature, far apart from the previous letters and documents of the colonial era" Its first edition circulated in a clandestine way in America. The text is the transcription of don Alonso Carrio de la Vandera's writings during his royal commission of fixing...

In Almas en pena, chapolas negras, Fernando Vallejo recounts the life of Colombian poet Jose Asuncion Silva. This unusual biography is a phantasmagoric trip through Bogota at the end of the 19th century. After committing suicide in 1896, Asuncion Silva left Colombia ten of the most beautiful poems of the Spanish language, and to his creditors a sum of $210.000 in debt. A century after his death, Vallejo initiates a search through notaries' archives and libraries, and relying upon an abundance of documents and old newspapers, he begins to solve the mystery of the poet's suicide and his...

The memoir of Jaycee Dugard who was kidnapped on June 10, 1991, when she was 11 years old, and was missing for over 18 years before her reappearance in 2009.

En Tánger, durante su estatuto como ciudad internacional, Dody conoce a una chica húngara recién llegada de Budapest, donde dos años antes su padre había sido asesinado por los tanques rusos en la invasión de esa capital en 1956. Aunque muy jóvenes, los dos se enamoran profundamente. Por circunstancias económicas, él emigra en 1961 a los EE. UU., en busca de trabajo, abandonando sus planes de estudiar arquitectura. En menos de un año desde la partida de él, ella recibe asilo político del país americano y, con su madre y hermana, emigran también, estableciéndose en Astoria,...