Memorias

Desde muy joven, Karoline quiso ir como misionera a la India o China, pero la congregación religiosa a la que pertenecía la envió a Chile, país al que llegó en 1968. Desde entonces, ha trabajado sin descanso para conseguir que los más pobres tengan comida, educación y salud, en un contexto sociopolítico complejo y sobreponiéndose al dolor y a las injusticias humanas. ¿Cómo logra una mujer nacida en la idílica Baviera superar las fronteras culturales, el absurdo y la crueldad de una dictadura y las rígidas estructuras institucionales? ¿Por qué decidió abandonar la orden y...

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A birth that doesn't go as expected; a kid diagnosed with an incurable disease that keeps her in bed for more than a year; a teenage girl attacked by a stranger while strolling around the countryside; a woman that escapes a fatal accident by a hair's breadth. These are some of the episodes that are collected in this astonishing and intimate memoir: seventeen grazes with death, as the author calls them, that could have ended up in disaster.

Este libro es un estudio sobre el padre del realismo mágico y premio Nobel de literatura 1982. Con una prosa ágil y accesible para todo tipo de lectores, el autor traza un mapa por la vida y la obra del escritor colombiano. Anécdotas, datos poco conocidos