El jefe de los espías

Maryse Condé takes up the story of her life and invites us to accompany her on the exciting journey that marked her youth: a journey that begins in Paris, with an accidental pregnancy and the abandonment of the man she loves, and that leads her to wander through different African countries in search of that identity that was already beginning to glimpse with the discovery of blackness. Côte d'Ivoire, Guinea, Ghana and Senegal make up the polyhedral scene of the vital transformation of Maryse, who walks through the revolutionary circles of African socialism and surrenders to the fever of...

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LA INDEPENDENCIA HISPANOAMERICANA quedó sellada tras la batalla de Ayacucho (1824), donde un ejército criollo derrotó a un ejército realista integrado mayoritariamente por indios. Casi doscientos años más tarde, soldados peruanos, ecuatorianos y colombianos vuelven a morir vistiendo el uniforme del ejército español en Líbano y Afganistán, mientras tropas de Honduras, Nicaragua y El Salvador permanecen acuarteladas en Iraq bajo bandera española. Las repúblicas latinoamericanas se independizaron de España a comienzos del siglo XIX, pero después de dos siglos de suspicacias y...

Este volumen es continuación de Mujeres maravillosas, aparecido en 1997. Con el estilo atractivo que caracteriza a su obra, la autora aporta una rica visión del mundo a través de las mujeres que, en diferentes circunstancias, se han convertido en figuras emblemáticas: Simone de Beauvoir, la emperatriz Carlota, la actriz Miroslava Stern y la cantante Lucha Reyes, entre otras.