Crecer desde el silencio

From as early as grade school, the world seemed to be on Nic Sheff's string. Bright and athletic, he excelled in any setting and appeared destined for greatness. Yet as childhood exuberance faded into teenage angst, the precocious boy found himself going down a much different path. Seduced by the illicit world of drugs and alcohol, he quickly found himself caught in the clutches of addiction. [Mi hijo precioso] is Nic's story, but from the perspective of his father, David.--From amazon.com.

Sobreviví, el libro de memorias del Obispo Clodomir Santos, no es simplemente una historia de aventura, sino el relato de una vida perdida, sufrida y angustiada de un joven que, cansado de ver la miseria propagarse en su casa, decide dejar los estudios e ingresar en la delincuencia. Lo que él no imaginaba era que, en esta travesía marcada por violencia y muertes, sería víctima de la persecución de examigos sedientos de venganza, de policías y de peligrosos escuadrones de la muerte de la época. Sin saber qué hacer para sobrevivir a ese caos, entra en desesperación. Con el cerco...

"What is a face, really? Its own photo? Its make-up? Or is it a face as painted by such or such painter? That which is in front? Inside? Behind? And the rest? Doesn't everyone look at himself in his own particular way?" With these words, Pablo Picasso described the revolutionary methods of painting and artistic perspective with which he challenged the ways people and the world were defined. His life was a similarly complex prism of people, places, and ideologies that spanned most of the twentieth century. Acclaimed scholar Mary Ann Caws provides in Pablo Picasso a fresh and concise...

Una historia sin importancia es un periplo autobiográfico en el que se narra la detención, tortura y encarcelamiento de un joven chileno a manos de la dictadura argentina de los años setenta. Dada la dificultad que entraña para el autor desarrollar esos capítulos de su vida, efectúa una interesantísima estratagema literaria para convertir el libro en un permanente diálogo entre diferentes voces de sí mismo. De esta manera, seremos partícipes de las disputas dialécticas entre personajes tales como Testigo, Militante o Santiago entre otros, entreveradas por la voz de un narrador que...