Vértigo Ménière

Otra vuelta de tuerca está ambientada a mediados del siglo XIX, cuando el alumbrado nocturno era mediante cirios y velas, y las comunicaciones a larga distancia se daban mediante cartas. En una gran mansión inglesa campestre, que da un ambiente misterioso al relato, la novela narra la historia de una joven institutriz, que queda a cargo de dicha mansión y del cuidado de dos niños. A lo largo de la narración intervienen presencias y personajes tal vez sobrenaturales. La anterior institutriz y el sirviente murieron en extrañas circunstancias. ¿Cuál es el secreto que se oculta entre los...

Thirty years ago Piri Thomas made literary history with this lacerating, lyrical memoir of his coming of age on the streets of Spanish Harlem. Here was the testament of a born outsider: a Puerto Rican in English-speaking America; a dark-skinned morenito in a family that refused to acknowledge its African blood. Here was an unsparing document of Thomas's plunge into the deadly consolations of drugs, street fighting, and armed robbery--a descent that ended when the twenty-two-year-old Piri was sent to prison for shooting a cop. As he recounts the journey that took him from adolescence in El...

Día esperado -- Fracaso y desilución -- Destino no nos falles -- Desafiando el mar: La travesía -- Un sueño dormido -- Ilusión y esperanza -- La última etapa -- La pesadilla llegaba a su fín.

The pages of Fidel Castro: "Birán to Cinco Palmas" cover the most notable moments in the first thirty years of life of the leader of the Cuban Revolution. From his childhood to the historical reencounter with his brother Raúl, shortly after their return to Cuba aboard the cabin cruiser Granma, the gradual development of the thinking and actions of this exceptional figure can be appreciated.