Mi hijo precioso/ Beautiful Boy

"Klara Galambos was a twenty-year-old violin student in Budapest in March 1944. Arrested and thrown into jail in the first days after the German occupation, she later managed to get home to Szombathely, was in the ghetto there and transported with the Jews of Szombathely to Auschwitz Birkenau. After five weeks she and her aunt were among the thousand Hungarian women selected for slave labour at Allendorf. They returned to Hungary after the war, and in 1948 they both left Hungary for New Zealand, where Clare joined the fledgling national orchestra. As a long-serving member of the NZSO, she...

En junio de 1937, varios agentes de la policía secreta, a las órdenes del conocido comisario soviético Orlov, detienen y secuestran en Barcelona al dirigente comunista Andreu Nin. En una ciudad en guerra contra el fascismo y desgarrada por las luchas intestinas entre anarquistas y comunistas, el máximo dirigente del POUM, un partido marxista de corte heterodoxo, hacía años que había concitado las iras de Stalin. Y eso era una pésima noticia. Nin (El Vendrell, 1892-Alcalá de Henares, 1937) fue maestro, escritor, traductor y, ante todo, un intelectual revolucionario fiel a los...

The visceral and carnal Pedro Juan Gutiérrez reviews his busy life and his provocative work, his influences and his working methods... Pedro Juan interviews Pedro Juan. The writer makes an agile and exhaustive review of his life and his work in which nothing is left in the pipeline. And, if we talk about Pedro Juan Gutiérrez, life and work intersect and interact until they merge in the trajectory of this author. In these pages he evokes his early first steps as a loving child poet in Matanzas, the discovery of sex and masturbation, life on the streets, his youth in the harshest and most...

Un extraordinario retrato de la vida escolar, cuyas escenas, situaciones y breves historias muestran el rostro más amargo y duro de la educación. Atemperados por una sonrisa melancólica, este conjunto de relatos no dejará indiferente a nadie.