La Ciudadela

Mi vestido verde esmeralda by Alister Ramirez Marquez recounts the life story of Clara, born poor in isolated, rural Colombia in 1900, who makes her way, after a mythic journey through forests, mountains and swamps to the western region of the Quindio, to the city of Armenia, now the heart of coffee and banana production. This remarkable novel, first published in 2003, is the tale of Clara's adventurous journey and subsequent rise to prosperity as the owner of a farm and restaurant and mother of six, ending with years of political strife and the dissolution of her family. The novel provides...

La novela de Silvia Plager enhebra cuatro historias de mujeres de distintas edades. Abuela, madre, hija y nieta que buscan el amor, la pasión y por sobre todo encontrarse a sí mismas y sus destinos.

This book explores some of the risks associated with sustainable peace in Colombia. The book intentionally steers away from the emphasis on the drug trade as the main resource fueling Colombian conflicts and violence, a topic that has dominated scholarly attention. Instead, it focuses on the links that have been configured over decades of armed conflict between legal resources (such as bananas, coffee, coal, flowers, gold, ferronickel, emeralds, and oil), conflict dynamics, and crime in several regions of Colombia. The book thus contributes to a growing trend in the academic literature...

Semejante a una obra de teatro político, Los primeros mártires de Japón, de Lope de Vega especula con la conversión del shogún japonés al cristianismo. Junto a la voluntad de evangelización del texto —los mártires mueren en nombre de Cristo— aparece un retrato de las intrigas palaciegas de la corte del shogún y se ve, como trasfondo, el estilo del colonialismo español, fundado, entre otras cosas, en la transmisión del cristianismo.