Los Sufrimientos De Ruthie

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 ...

Un libro conciso y detallado que nos muestra las claves de una actriz que ha logrado reinventarse a sí misma.

The intimate story of two of the most famous, yet enigmatic, figures in modern literature—Jack Kerouac and his friend, traveling companion, and hero, Neal Cassady—this is a firsthand account of life among the Beat generation, written by the woman who was Cassady’s wife and Kerouac’s lover. Beginning with the early days of Kerouac and Cassady’s friendship, Carolyn Cassady’s riveting memoir narrates the explosive success of Kerouac’s On the Road and Ginsberg’s "Howl," the flowering of the Beat generation, and the social revolution of the 1960s that saw Kerouac and Cassady taken...

Un espiritu protector, 1955 "Ven hermano conmigo; te asombraras de lo rapido que llegamos. Aqui el tiempo no existe, por lo tanto no nos limita en ninguna forma. Ven, ven sin temor, en donde la seguridad predomina e invita a la busqueda de la verdad. Te llevare por el camino mas amplio que jamas hayas vislumbrado, en donde la felicidad no es una quimera. Esa union breve de pensamientos de las almas en el universo facilita la instruccion para el progreso y la aplicacion del amor y la caridad como base hacia la verdad; hacia Dios." El velo se descorre y el alma se eleva leyendo las memorias de...