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Éste es un relato acerca de cómo el amor me salvó, en un momento en que la mayoría de la gente me daba por perdido

Así comienza Víctor Rivas Rivers esta magnífica crónica en que narra su fuga desde la zona de guerra de la violencia doméstica -- considerada con demasiada frecuencia como "un asunto de familia" -- y su trayectoria hacia la independencia, la recuperación y la renovación.

En Asunto de familia, Víctor recuerda su época de joven iracundo que vivía bajo la tiranía y la cólera de su padre. El tempestuoso temperamento de su padre, Antonio Rivas García Rubio, a quien por su carácter apodaban El Ciclón, no sólo lo llevó a golpear a su esposa, sino a maltratar -- y finalmente a secuestrar -- a sus propios hijos. La manera en que Víctor logró obtener ayuda para su familia y una sanción legal contra su padre, así como sobreponerse a sus propios demonios, aprender a amarse a sí mismo y llegar a compartir su experiencia con otras víctimas y sobrevivientes de la violencia doméstica, constituye la esencia de esta obra profunda y conmovedora..
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Presenting vital information, clearly, and in nontechnical language, in Spanish and in English, this essential family reference is for anyone--citizen, new arrival, naturalized citizen, English- or Spanish-speaking--who wants to understand the basics of the American legal system National print ads & author publicity. 3-city author tour..
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Megan and Duncan Richards have come a long way from 1968 and their radical past. He's a banker; she's in real estate. They have two teenage daughters and a young son. But the past has not forgotten them. From her prison cell, the beautiful and cold-blooded terrorist Tanya, with whom the Richards were involved in 1968, plots her revenge on the couple she blames for her capture. Soon she will be released from jail. Then she will start to pay them back -beginning with their son. Description in Spanish: Megan y Duncan Richards son gente normal. Tienen dos hijas adolescentes y un hijo. Viven en una casa preciosa. Todo indica que sus dias de activistas politicos, en los anos sesenta, han quedado atras. En ese momento, empujados por una hermosa mujer, Tania, tomaron parte en un robo que termino mal. Y ahora, cuando los Richards disfrutan de su tranquilidad familiar, Tania esta a punto de salir de la carcel. Lleva 18 anos planeando como vengarse de las dos personas a las que culpa de lo que ocurrio aquel dia. Su venganza sera dulce, sera perversa..
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From Spain's best-selling author comes this modern-day Cinderella story of fairies and pirates, of good and evil, involving an innocent 16-year-old, Maria, who dreams of pirate adventures Her virginity is for sale until she is rescued from a bordello by her Prince Charming, Manolo. This exciting and unexpected tale is written in an action-packed, bittersweet and humorous tone. Was made into a Major Motion Picture, Cachito. Description in Spanish: ''Era la mas linda Cenicienta que vi nunca. Tenia dieciseis anos, un libro de piratas bajo la almohada y, como en los cuentos, una hermanastra mala que habia vendido su virginidad al portugues Almeida, quien a su vez pretendia revendersela a don Maximo Larreta, propietario de Construcciones Larreta y de la funeraria Hasta Luego...'' Relato de carretera, road movie a la espanola, Un asunto de honor es un cuento moderno de malos y buenos a ritmo de rumba. Todos los personajes se mueven por una cuestion de honor: Maria, la nina virgen que quiere conocer el mar y cambiar su destino; Manolo, el camionero perdedor a la vez que tierno, y el malvado portugues Almeida, que no puede dejar de cumplir una promesa. Este relato se convirtio en la pelicula Cachito, dirigida por el director Enrique Urbizu..
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In a year when Spanish curators directed the Venice Biennale for the first time, Antoni Muntadas, representing Spain in the Spanish pavilion, told a reporter that the Biennale "takes its ideas from international fairs. It connotes the theme park. There was exoticism, invention, the new... but by now it is an obsolete structure." Muntadas's On Translation: I Giardini, the latest in a series of often site-specific On Translation projects completed over the last 10 years, is here documented from its inception. Translation is a metaphor, as Muntadas states, "I am not talking about translation in a literal sense, but in a cultural sense--how the world we live in is a totally translated world, everything is always filtered by some social, political, cultural and economic factor... by the media, of course, by context and by history." Accordingly, I Giardini looks into the context and history of the Biennale's Giardini del Castello, delving into the transformations and "translations" it has undergone over time, and investigating Venice's status and the space that frames the Biennale. Muntadas notes, for instance, that a new Italian pavilion built on Mussolini's orders was replaced again after the war..
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The interior of the Spanish Pavilion at the 50th Venice Biennale, held this past summer, was accessible only to the Spanish public, and then only upon presentation of an official national identification card. Persons lacking this national status were refused entry. No audience witnessed the performance held in the space on May 1st, in which an old woman wearing a black hood was paid to sit silently still on a stool for an hour. In this manner, Santiago Sierra, the artist chosen to represent Spain, did as he often does in his work: he used live human beings, both witting and unwitting, to highlight the problematic nature of our global capitalist economy. In this volume we find documentation and texts on this and other works made over the past decade, including such performances as Line of 30 cm tattooed on a remunerated person (Mexico City, 1998), 8 people paid to remain inside cardboard boxes (Guatemala City, 1999), and 3 people paid to lay still inside 3 boxes during a party (Havana, 2000)..
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