Isabel Bongard

Memorias de infancia y juventud. El libro más esperado de Xavier Sardà. «Nuestro verbo 'recordar' lleva dentro la palabra corazón. Viene del bajo latín 'recordare', que se compone del prefijo 're-' (de nuevo) y un elemento, 'cordare', formado sobre el nombre 'cor', 'cordis' (corazón). Antiguamente se creía que el corazón era la sede de la memoria.» Mierda de infancia es, sin duda, el libro más personal y esperado de Xavier Sardà. En él revisita, con el humor tan personal que lo caracteriza, los momentos más duros de su vida. Desde la extrañeza y la soledad de vivir lejos de la...

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As an actress, Diana Quick was forever trying on the mask of other people's lives - raiding her own memory to service the character she was playing. Coming from a large, noisy family in Kent that seemed to be plain-speaking and straightforward, she was astonished to find on her beloved father's death that his childhood in India was far from idyllic. She was then thunderstruck to hear that he was to have a requiem mass. She had no idea he was Catholic. She discovered that his stepmother had got rid of him and his sister upon marrying his father and that he had grown up in almost total...

La Historia del Almirante, constituida por una sucinta biografía de Cristóbal Colón y una extensa relación de sus cuatro viajes a América es teóricamente debida a la pluma de su hijo Hernando Colón. Lejos de configurarse como un cúmulo de fríos datos históricos, tanto la forma como el contenido del libro están marcados por esa impronta de velado misterio y fascinante aventura que caracteriza a buena parte de los relatos centrados en el descubrimiento de América. Escrita originariamente en castellano, la obra se publicó sólo en versión italiana en 1571. Tras un complicado...