Memoria latente

Relato autobiográfico. La historia personal de un naufragio, y luego, de una reconstrucción gracias a la escritura. Una lucha contra la enfermedad y contra un espectro social: aquél donde la desintegración del individuo va de la mano con la de nuestra sociedad.

She spoke of God and miracles. In the 50 years of her ministry she possibly testified personally to 100,000,000 people about the love and the power of God. Wherever she went, people who thought that miracles were not possible, believed because of her. Before she died, she asked only for Jaime Buckingham to write her biography. Here we have the story, not of a holy person, but of a human -marriage, divorce, treason in her administrative work- with dark events surrounding her death. It is the story of Kathryn Kyhlman that no one knows, but that she wanted to reveal. The story of a red headed...

Desde el principio de su historia, los paises de America Latina tuvieron como principal motor de sus luchas la conquista de su independencia; luego, durante el siglo XX conseguir un orden politico estable y armonioso fue el maximo desafio. Las paginas de este libro reflejan las hazanas y sinsabores de los treinta protagonistas elegidos por la calidad de sus gestas o de la ambicion de sus propositos. A traves de los agudos perfiles de Fidel Castro, Jose Artigas, Juan Peron, Victor R. Haya de la Torre, y Domingo F. Sarmiento, entre otros, con un lenguaje claramente descriptivo, Fernando Sabsay...

Describes the author's experiences asn undocumented, illegal immigrant int he United States, chronicling his secret odyssey across the border, his struggle to build a new life amid the unwelcoming 'promise' of the United States, his work at an endless stream of menial jobs, and the people he meets along the way. (Biography)