Cuéntame, Mamá Bilingüe/Tell Me the Story, Mom

De forma suave, sin estridencias, con sensibilidad, mimo y fino sentido del humor, Ibrahim Aslán (una figura central de la ficción egipcia contemporánea) narra, en esta obra publicada en Egipto en 1992, la vida cotidiana de una oficina de Correos de El Cairo durante el turno de noche a través de sucesivas estampas: los empleados (entre ellos el narrador, en el que podemos ver un reflejo del propio autor), su labor repetida diariamente, la mujer que envía un telegrama al hombre al que ya no ama, la llamada a la oración, el té ardiendo, la correspondencia que circula de Oriente a...

Esta obra reúne textos escritos por Andrés Lira sobre el exilio español y los maestros de ese exilio, como: José Medina Echavarría, José Miranda, Ramón Iglesia, Juan Antonio Ortega y Medina, Eugenio Ímaz y José Gaos, quienes han formado parte tanto de la Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México como de El Colegio de México.

Animals sing or talk to communicate. They make noise for different reasons. Find out why some animals make certain noises. Paired to the fiction title So Many Classes.

Sitting Bull first went to battle at the age of 14. He grew to be widely respected for his bravery and insight, and became chief of the Lakota nation in his thirties. By the time he met General Custer at the Battle of Little Big Horn, his courage was legendary. Though he soundly defeated Custer, public outrage at the defeat brought thousands of cavalrymen to the area, where it took four more years before the brave chief would surrender. He was forced onto a reservation where he was later killed when police attempted to arrest him.