Ojos azules y magia negra

Otra colina es una novela autobiográfica absorbente y de rara ecuanimidad sobre la peripecia heroica de los voluntarios norteamericanos que lucharon junto a la República española para derrotar el fascismo aquí y, por ende, en toda Europa. Milton Wolff, último comandante del batallón Lincoln en la guerra civil española, teje en este texto tramas paralelas a partir de los soldados Leo Rogin y Mitch Castle. Dotados de muy diversa aptitud para la lucha, sus experiencias revelan, más allá del conflicto específico y de cualquier ideología, la complejidad psicológica que se esconde tras...

When Maggie Hughes becomes pregnant at fifteen in 1950s Quebec, her parents force her to give baby Elodie up for adoption and get her life back on track. As time passes, the stories of Maggie and Elodie intertwine but never touch, until Maggie goes in search of her long-lost daughter.

Unique among translations of Spanish Golden Age plays into English in that it closely replicates the rhyme schemes of the original as well as both the poetic and prosodic rhythms. Bilingual edition.

The story begins in the projects of the South Bronx, New York. There we will meet Sarah Williams, a single mother of twin girls Michelle and Miranda and son Jason. The Williams' family struggles to break the cycle of poverty in the face of gangs, drugs, and prostitution. Jason, the youngest attemtps to assert his role as "man of the house," but is overwhelmed by the task at hand. Thinking that he is just one more mouth to feed, he leaves in the middle of the night and begins his life on the streets of New York city. We follow Jason as he negotiates his new world. With the thought the he will...