Mi hijo precioso/ Beautiful Boy

Pombo: a man of Che's guerrilla is a never-before-published story of the 1966-68 revolutionary campaign in Bolivia led by Ernesto Che Guevara. It is the diary and account of Pombo - a member of Guevara's general staff, a young Cuban fighter still in his 20s and already a veteran of a decade of struggle around the globe. Harry Villegas, known the world over by his nom de guerre, Pombo, is today a brigadier general in Cuba's Revolutionary Armed Forces. His day-by-day account of an epic chapter in the history of the Americas illuminates the times we are living through and foreshadows the titanic ...

Era poco frecuente toparse con un cirujano como aquel. Jamás se daba por vencido. Sus ojos eran indómitos y curiosos, como los de un niño. Se atrevía a ir más allá del punto en el que otros se detenían. Si un enfermo lo requería, él se implicaba a fondo y nunca lo desasistía, aunque desde el punto de vista quirúrgico no se pudiera hacer nada más. Pero si existía una pequeña posibilidad de solución, él la perseguía con empeño. Enzo Piccinini era un gran cirujano, pero sobre todo era un verdadero amigo, un padre, no sólo para sus cuatro hijos, sino también para innumerables...

Apreciada por crítica y público, la obra de Elsa Morante no sólo supone un hito en lo literario sino también un referente moral. Amiga de Visconti, Bertolucci o Pasolini, exigente y sincera, celosa de su intimidad, fue una de las figuras que dieron color a la legendaria Roma de la dolce vita.

"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...