1789 was the beginning of major changes in France and one of its most prized colony, Santo Domingo. The revolution changed the traditional structures of society but this turbulence brought out the greatness and the perversity of its protagonists. Joséphine no exception; explosive mixture of races, warm-hearted woman, young maverick, live a thousand adventures in search of personal fulfillment both in love and in the society of his time. Rebel despite their status as slave, accept the authority of one man, Toussaint Louverture, whose wake follow throughout the island and who live in the shadow of major battles, powers subdue traditional prerequisite to building a new society. His life is therefore a new witness, a new version of what was the path taken by unrepeatable heroes that led to Haiti to freedom and independence.
...va pasando el tiempo en un ir y venir por el pasillo, y para el alba la tormenta ha perdido la fuerza, mientras que "la Escopetilla" ha recuperado las suyas. Recostada entre las almohadas, sorbe una infusión de contrití que Junípero ha hecho para ella. A su lado, Juan José le toma el pulso que ahora late con normalidad. Ninguno de los tres tiene explicación para lo sucedido, hasta que entre las almohadas una bolsa del tamaño de una rosquilla de San Isidro asoma junto al camisón amarillo. En su interior, un dedo de mono seco, quizá el dedo corazón, y una pequeña hoja medio marchita... Esta es la historia de la familia Camaró y "Ojos de Gato", que tras La Guerra Civil Española de 1936, y bajo el régimen del General Franco, emprenden una nueva vida en una tierra extraña y fascinante, como fue La Guinea Española -hoy Guinea Ecuatorial-. Una historia de sentimientos a flor de piel, que marcaron la vida de una niña hasta que en 1968-con la independencia- su familia, como la gran mayoría de los coloniales, dejó esa tierra bendita para no volver.
Mexico in Its Novel is a perceptive examination of the Mexican reality as revealed through the nation's novel. The author presents the Mexican novel as a cultural phenomenon: a manifestation of the impact of history upon the nation, an attempt by a people to come to grips with and understand what has happened and is happening to them. Written in a clear and graceful style, this study examines the life of the novel as a genre against the background of Mexican chronology. It begins with a survey of the mid-twentieth-century novel, the Mexican novel which came of age in the period following the 1947 publication of Agustín Yáñez's The Edge of the Storm. During this time the novel resolved some of its most complicated problems and, as a result, offered a wider and deeper view of reality. Having established this circumstance, John Brushwood goes back in time to the Conquest and then moves forward to the twentieth-century novel. Passing from the Colonial Period into the nineteenth century, the author recognizes the relationship between Romanticism and the desire for logical social behavior, and then views this relationship in the perspective of the Reform, an attempt to bring order out of chaos. The novel under the Díaz dictatorship is seen in three different phases, and the last Díaz chapter actually moves into the Revolution itself. The novel during the years of fighting is considered along with the first post-Revolutionary fiction. From that point the developing conflict within Mexican reality itself—a conflict between introversion and extroversion, nationalism and cosmopolitanism—reaches out to seek its solution in the novels of the first chapter.
En ésta obra se cuenta la historia de un rico hacendado, ganadero y cultor de café, quien aprovechando el cariño que le tenía la gente del departamento donde vivía, por consejo de un grupo de amigos se metió en política, resultando elegido como Gobernador del departamento, en el cual dio cumplimiento a todo lo que había ofrecido, pero unos criminales empezaron a desaparecerle trabajadores y el administrador, hasta tener que abandonar la hacienda habiéndose negado a colaborar con dinero para los chantajistas, pero las cosas no pararon ahí, las amenazas siguieron contra él, sus familiares y allegados habiendo tenido que refugiarse en un país amigo, hasta donde llegó el extenso brazo de los criminales haciéndole varios atentados, teniéndose que trasladar a un país Europeo para defender su vida y la de su esposa, sus hijas e hijos vivían en USA desde tiempo atrás. Pero el largo y criminal brazo de los asesinos se estiró hasta la antigua Roma y el ex Gobernador y su esposa fueron asesinados. También cuenta la historia de una hermosa mujer que, junto con su madre, una campesina nacida en un pequeño pueblo, lucha con su hija hasta que llega a los Estados Unidos y las dos triunfan pero antes estuvieron involucrada con esta familia habiendo vivido un tórrido romance con el cónsul encargado de negocios perteneciente a la Embajada de un país Latino Americano, siendo después abandonada con una hija y cómo fue que surgió como el ave Fénix, llegando a ser doctora por su propio esfuerzo, esposa de un prestigioso Médico, habiendo tenido que aguantar frio y hambre, siendo explotada por un Chino propietario de un fabrica de camisas y como el destino les ayudo a ella y todas sus compañeras a recuperar los dineros de su trabajo perdido, habiendo cerrado la fabrica acabando la explotación de centenares de mujeres cuando todo lo creían perdido. Hoy la doctora Zamarkanda Henao dicta clases en la universidad, atiende su propio consultorio y habla cinco idiomas. ¡Es un libro que hay que leerlo! Para gozar de las mieles de una literatura franca, sincera y apasionada. Con amor y odio, alegrías y tristezas, opulencia y necesidad, dramática, capaz de preocupar y conmover, hasta el crimen, con el frío del crudo invierno y el calor del ardiente verano, pasando por el otoño y la más hermosa primavera, todo con un poco de humor en un solo texto.
It is two years after the entry in Granada by the Christians in 1492. In this brilliant sequel to his first historical novel Al-Andalus: His last years, Howard Headworth elaborates a rich mix of personal drama and historical detail, and presents a magnificent sense of the place. Including the military campaigns of the great captain in Italy against the French, the wedding of the Infanta Jeanne in Flanders with Philip the Beautiful, the scandals of the Borgias in Rome and The Adventures of Christopher Columbus in the Indies in search of gold, the Catholic Monarchs seeks To forge the future grandeur and destiny of Spain. Howard Headworth lives in Almeria, Spain, for twenty years. He was born in Wales and studied geology at the university there and at the Imperial College in London. He uses his great experience as a scientific director as well as his passion for the history of his adopted country in this historical novel.
Royal Favouritism and the Governing Elite of the Spanish Monarchy, 1640-1665 presents a study of the later years of the reign of Philip IV from the perspective of his favourite (valido), don Luis Mendez de Haro, and of the other ministers who helped govern the Spanish Habsburg Monarchy. It offers a positive vision of a period that is often seen as one of failure and decline. Unlike his predecessors, Haro exercised the favour that he enjoyed in a discreet way, acting as a perfect courtier and honest broker between the king and his aristocratic subjects. Nevertheless, Alistair Malcolm also argues that the presence of a royal favourite at the head of the government of Spain amounted to a major problem. The king's delegation of his authority to a single nobleman was considered by many to have been incompatible with good kingship, and Philip IV was himself very uneasy about failing in his responsibilities as a ruler. Haro was thus in a highly insecure situation, and sought to justify his regime by organizing the management of a prestigious and expensive foreign policy. In this context, the eventual conclusion of the very honourable peace with France in 1659 is shown to have been as much the result of the independent actions of other ministers as it was of a royal favourite very reluctantly brought to the negotiating table at the Pyrenees. By conclusion, the quite sudden collapse of Spanish European hegemony after Haro's death in 1661 is represented as a delayed reaction to the repercussions of a flawed system of government.
