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This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute...

Como escribiera Jorge Luis Borges, quizás la historia universal no sea más que la entonación de un par de metáforas. La que ejercitan en este libro Bárbara Silva y Josefina Cabrera es aquella que busca representar el todo por una de sus partes. Así, en vez de plantear otro relato histórico ordenado, lineal y progresivo, las autoras nos muestran que desde un día cualquiera puede reconstruirse la sensibilidad y los hechos de un año, explorando un relato fragmentado en cien días que corresponden a loscien años del siglo XX en nuestro país. Cien años de sueños colectivos y arrojos...

Hannie Schaft, conocida como 'la chica pelirroja', era a sus veinte anos recien cumplidos, una de las terroristas mas fervientemente buscadas por la Gestapo en los Paises Bajos. En varsovia los ejecutores de la solucion final intentaban atrapa a 'la pequena Wanda con las trenzas rubias' que, en realidad, se llamaba Niuta Tejtelbojm, tenia veinte anos y era judia. En los frentes de la guerra civil espanola los militares facciosos de Franco se las tenian que ver con milicianas de dieciseis anos. En los guetos del este de Europa, en los Paises Bajos ocupados, en el ejercito partisano de Tito, de ...