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Este libro es un compendio de historias familiares, esfuerzos e ilusiones en pos de la excelencia española que ocuparon —y siguen haciéndolo— la vida profesional de Carlos Falcó: cómo mejorar dos cultivos milenarios, olivos y vides, que Tucídides definió como origen de la cultura mediterránea, y especialmente sus frutos, el aceite y el vino. Haciéndolo, ha practicado cuanto le gustaba —algo siempre recomendable para la salud—, logrando una buena vida, esa aspiración prioritaria para cualquier ser humano sin traicionar sus valores y, tal vez, contribuyendo en cierta medida a...

La historia de Norma Arrostito es, tanto por lo trágica como por lo legendaria, uno de los capítulos relegados de la vida política argentina en los setenta. Con curiosidad, rigor y un ritmo narrativo sostenido e intenso, Gabriela Saidon nos cuenta esa historia y nos permite asomarnos a un personaje con perfiles paradójicos.

Una maestra en Katmandú, which inspired the movie directed by Icíar Bollaín, is a beautiful and rare love story and a fascinating travel journal. The still unfinished story of Vicki Subirana begins with the dreams of a socially-committed young teacher and culminates in the consolidation of a world-wide academic project for Nepal’s poor and marginalized population. In her quest to carry out her ideals, Vicki dealt with all kinds of obstacles: to avoid being deported, she even accepted a marriage of convenience to a Sherpa… a relationship that turned into a sweeping and passionate love...

"Klara Galambos was a twenty-year-old violin student in Budapest in March 1944. Arrested and thrown into jail in the first days after the German occupation, she later managed to get home to Szombathely, was in the ghetto there and transported with the Jews of Szombathely to Auschwitz Birkenau. After five weeks she and her aunt were among the thousand Hungarian women selected for slave labour at Allendorf. They returned to Hungary after the war, and in 1948 they both left Hungary for New Zealand, where Clare joined the fledgling national orchestra. As a long-serving member of the NZSO, she...