Sacando Mis Papeles

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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...

La primera biografía en la que la presidenta habla de todos los temas, en un diálogo extraordinario, de mujer a mujer.

卡斯特罗是古巴社会主义革命的创始人，也是上世纪影响了世界政治格局的一位领袖人物。又因为古巴同中国同属于少数的社会主义阵营，卡斯特罗本人即使在国内也还是有很大的一批“粉丝”。本书正是由驻古巴大使夫妇创作，首次披露了大使夫妇二人与卡斯特罗的交往及卡斯特罗本人的趣事。读者所了解的卡斯特罗都是传记上的卡斯特罗，而不是生活中的为人朋友、为人父母、为人兄长的卡斯特罗。这是一本走进卡斯特罗的好书。