Diario de un emigrante clandestino

The Spanish edition of Claudia Rankine’s (Citizen) new, acclaimed, genre-bending reflection on whiteness in America. “A skyscraper in the literature on racism.” —Christian Science Monitor “Rankine [is] helping America understand itself, one conversation at a time.” —Associated Press NAMED A BEST BOOK OF 2020 by The New York Times, Time Magazine, NPR, Esquire, The Guardian, O Magazine, Ms. Magazine, Star Tribune, St. Louis Post Dispatch, Christian Science Monitor, Kirkus Reviews, and Publishers Weekly As everyday white supremacy becomes increasingly vocalized with no clear...

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SIPNOSIS..... Este libro que tienes entre tus manos, querido lector, es un convencido alegato del Carpe Diem. Nuestra protagonista se revela valiente, sensible, noble e inconformista. Conoce que "la escasez y los caprichos no van de la mano". Sentencia que "la imaginación no pesa ni cansa" y ha experimentado los vaivenes de la realidad soñada, como "una Reina el día de su coronación". Una historia imprescindible para todos los que nos preguntamos: ¿puede un libro cambiar nuestra vida? Rotundamente sí. No te lo pierdas.

A woman living and communicating in multiple lands, Susana Chávez-Silverman conveys her cultural and linguistic displacement in humorous, bittersweet, and even tangible ways in this truly bilingual literary work. These meditative and lyrical pieces combine poignant personal confession, detailed daily observation, and a memorializing drive that shifts across time and among geocultural spaces. The author’s inventive and flamboyant use of Spanglish, a hybrid English-Spanish idiom, and her adaptation of the confessional "crónica" make this memoir compelling and powerful. Killer Crónicas...