Wise, often funny, sometimes heart-breaking, Persepolis tells the story of Marjane Satrapi’s life in Tehran from the ages of six to fourteen, growing up during the Iranian Revolution. The intelligent and outspoken child of radical Marxists, and the great-grandaughter of Iran’s last emperor, Satrapi bears witness to a...
Con un estilo bello, preciso y reflexivo, Lucía Bleusvet nos invita a acompañar al yo poético en un tránsito sublime: del silenciamiento a la palabra, de la oscuridad a la luz, del vacío al alumbramiento. La búsqueda interior, el anhelo de plenitud desde una mirada atenta...
En un edificio del barrio de La Latina, en el centro de Madrid, confluyen las vidas de tres mujeres. El pequeño piso interior de la cuarta planta es la casa de Oliva. Está atrapada en una peligrosa relación que ha transformado la pasión del inicio...
Arriving one year after the Haitian-American’s first novel (Breath, Eyes, Memory) alerted critics to her compelling voice, these 10 stories, some of which have appeared in small literary journals, confirm Danticat’s reputation as a remarkably gifted writer. Examining the lives of ordinary Haitians, particularly those struggling...
The pioneering Book of the City of Ladies begins when, feeling frustrated and miserable after reading a male writer’s tirade against women, Christine de Pizan has a dreamlike vision where three virtues—Reason, Rectitude and Justice—appear to correct this view. They instruct her to build an allegorical city...
Eugenia Tenenbaum revive en este libro períodos históricos desde la Antigüedad hasta el siglo XX, con el objetivo de disfrutar de las obras de arte que vieron la luz en esas épocas. Gracias a su voz cercana y rigurosa, nos reconciliaremos con el placer inmenso que nos...
Le Prix a Payer, written by Lucile Quillet, is an eye-opening story that exposes some gender equality issues so deeply rooted in our society that usually go unnoticed. In this thought-provoking book, the author gives voice to all those women who suffer in silence the...
Papá puede dibujar el mundo y construir un velero en el sótano. Mamá es preciosa, lleva siempre zapatos de tacón y vive rodeada de libros. María, la niñera, habla en calabrés y tiene un corazón superlativo. Y luego están los chicos y la pequeña Nana,...
My Body is a profoundly personal exploration of feminism, sexuality, and power, of men’s treatment of women and women’s rationalizations for accepting that treatment. These essays chronicle moments from Ratajkowski’s life while investigating the culture’s fetishization of girls and female beauty, its obsession with and contempt...
“You sound like a white girl”. These were the words spoken to Julissa by a crush as she struggled to find her place in America. As a brown immigrant from Mexico, assimilation had been demanded of her since the moment she set foot in San...
A young Latin tutor—penniless and bullied by a violent father—falls in love with an extraordinary, eccentric young woman. Agnes is a wild creature who walks her family’s land with a falcon on her glove and is known throughout the countryside for her unusual gifts as...
At seventeen, Angela returns to the place where she was raised—a stunning island town that lies at the border of Canada and Minnesota—where she finds that an eager developer is planning a hydroelectric dam that will leave sacred land flooded and abandoned. Joining up...
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