The latest Benedetti novel, Andamios, is considered his best novel since La tregua. Andamios traces the story of the return to Uruguay of Javier, the protagonist, after his twelve-year exile in Spain. Filled with autobiographical elements, this extraordinary novel encompasses memories, hopes, loneliness, and the political struggle that has dominated Latin America in this century.
La Biblia Envenenada The drama of a U.S. missionary family in Africa during a war of decolonization. At its center is Nathan Price, a self-righteous Baptist minister who establishes a mission in a village in 1959 Belgian Congo. The resulting clash of cultures is seen through the eyes of his wife and his…
Realismo Magico, Vallenato Y Violencia Politica En El Caribe Colombiano By reading Caribbean novels and ethnographies I trace the conformation of a critical tradition which influences aesthetics and social thought, and makes public the relation between cultural myths and social inequalities. In contrast to Alejo Carpentiers image of the Caribbean as a sanctuary where intellectuals escape from western rationalism, Garcia…
Croniñón Little Croniñón helps his clan hunt and kill a mammoth and at the same time learns to paint the walls of the cave he lives in.
Muchas Vidas, Muchos Maestros METAPHYSICAL El doctor Brian Weiss, jefe de psiquiatría del hospital Mount Sinai de Miami, relata en éste, su primer libro, una asombrosa experiencia que cambió por completo su propia vida y su visión de la psicoterapia. Una de sus pacientes, Catherine, recordó bajo hipnosis varias de sus vidas pasadas y…
No Juegues De Noche! It may seem to be an amusing game but behind the Ouija exists a frightening and not-so-amusing mystery.
Colección De Documentos Inéditos Para La Historia De Chile Desde El… Excerpt from Colección de Documentos Inéditos para la Historia de Chile Desde el Viaje de Magallanes Hasta la Batalla de Maipo, 1518-1818, Vol. 18: Valdivia y Sus Compañeros, XI E después de lo susodicho, en este dicho día, mes e' año dicho, yo, el dicho escribano, hice la dicha citación…
