Escritores españoles en los Estados Unidos

From the author of the critically acclaimed Fruit of the Drunken Treecomes a dazzling, kaleidoscopic memoir about liberating herself fromWestern notions of fact and fiction to reclaim her family's otherworldlylegacy. For Ingrid Rojas Contreras, magic runs in the family. Growing up in theColombia of the 1980's and 1990's in a house where "what did you dream?"was asked in place of "how are you?" her world was laced with prophecy andviolence. Her maternal grandfather, Nono, was a renowned curandero, acommunity healer gifted with the ability to talk to the dead, tell the future, curethe sick, and ...

La biografía de Cristián Precht resume de manera dramática la historia reciente de la Iglesia católica chilena. La protagoniza un sacerdote de origen más bien conservador, que llegó a liderar un proyecto revolucionario para la Iglesia —la Vicaría de la Solidaridad— y se convirtió en un héroe de la defensa de los derechos humanos y de los perseguidos por la dictadura de Pinochet. Admirado y respetado de manera transversal, el carisma y la habilidad política de Precht lo convirtieron en un indispensable para distintos arzobispos de Santiago durante décadas. En momentos en que el...

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Personaje sobresaliente en las pugnas que marcaron el tránsito de la antigua Inglaterra hacia concepciones nuevas que la convertirían en una nación moderna, Tomás Moro es una figura en la que se juntan varios aspectos del intelectual de su tiempo: abogado, humanista, miembro del Parlamento, mártir de la fe católica, canciller del rey y autor satírico.