El señor de la Corte

Cómo trascender el duelo y amar la vida. "Cuando muere una persona inmensamente querida con la que compartíamos un proyecto de vida, nuestra realidad se rompe. Nos sentimos solos, desgarrados, vacíos, sin tierra bajo los pies... Así me sentí yo durante mucho tiempo cuando murió mi hijo Ignasi en 1998. Durante la travesía de mi largo duelo he podido constatar que el amor es lo único que de verdad nos sostiene, que no es posible dejar atrás la rabia, el dolor, la culpa o la locura si no miramos, en silencio, en nuestro interior y dejamos ir con cariño el pesado lastre que arrastramos...

A powerful, honest memoir by two sisters -- one a star on Orange Is the New Black, one a trans woman and activist -- about transitioning, family, allyship, and the path to self-realization. When Selenis Leyva's parents adopted a baby into their warm, loving family, Selenis was immediately smitten. The pair were always close; Selenis showered her younger sibling with affection, who in turn looked up to Selenis and followed her everywhere. The siblings realized, almost at the same moment, that the younger of the two was struggling with their identity. As Marizol transitioned and fought to...

"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...

Para leer de un tirón lo ha hecho: su lenguaje sencillo y ameno, un tema interesante y anécdotas sorprendentes de familiares y amigos que lo conocieron bien, posibilitarán encontrar lectores complices de esta idea en la medida en que penetren por vericuetos de la ciudad santiaguera y el lomerío de la Sierra Maestra como combatiente estudiantil, clandestino y del Ejército Rebelde, como Delegado del Ministerio del Interior, al frente de la Dirección General de Inteligencia, en Angola como combatiente Internacionalista y finalmente como asesor del Ministro de las FAR