Автор: Valdes Valerie Название: Chilling Effect ISBN: 0356514420 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780356514420 Издательство: Little Brown Рейтинг: Цена: 1516.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: A debut space opera that features an irresistible foul-mouthed captain and her misfit crew . . .
Автор: Rivera-Valdes, Sonia Название: Historias Prohibidas / Marta ISBN: 1583220534 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781583220535 Издательство: Random House (USA) Рейтинг: Цена: 1375.00 р. Наличие на складе: Нет в наличии.
Описание: The Forbidden Stories is the author's inspired response to a statement made by a Cuban politician regarding the conflicted attitude towards homosexuality in Cuba. Rivera-Vald s creates the character of Marta Veneranda, a graduate student working on a thesis which aims to graph clinically the discrepancy between an individual's sense of shame and society's attitude toward the incidents that inspire self-censorship in a person. But the orderly study becomes unruly as the subjects interviewed reveal their hidden stories. In "Little Poisons,", the nameless narrator is heavily influenced by pop psychologist Patricia Evans. Through her copious reading, she manages to gain some distance from her co-dependent relationship with her husband. Sharing with Marta the minutiae of her liberation, she recounts: "As the days and months went by, I began feeling proud of myself, strong, free from his subjugation and my neurosis, even when his romance with the young woman began and he told me about it. In the fifteen years of marriage he would tell me everything, even about his sexual escapades-- if he couldn't share them with me, who would he share them with? Besides, that way no one could come running to me spreading rumors. In the end, he couldn't live without me: his wife, friend, lover, and mother. Can you believe that I listened to these stories and even felt proud of the trust he had in me?" Beneath the humor and the deceptively simple surface of The Forbidden Stories is a deadly-serious look at the co-mingling of Anglo and Latino cultures, and an expos of the comforts and discomforts of that cohabitation.
Автор: Rivera-Valdes, Sonia Название: Forbidden Stories Of Marta ISBN: 158322047X ISBN-13(EAN): 9781583220474 Издательство: Random House (USA) Рейтинг: Цена: 2019.00 р. Наличие на складе: Нет в наличии.
Автор: Domingue Fermin Valdes Название: Diary of a Soldier: Cuba: 1895-1897 ISBN: 1977214894 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781977214898 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 3818.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание:
Dr. Ferm n Vald s Dominguez was living in Tampa, Florida in 1895 when he received his orders to report to General Seraf n S nchez in Key West. After a failed attempt to launch a filibuster from Fernandina Beach, Florida in January 1895, the Cuban migr community in Key West organized another military expedition that would leave Big Pine Key to bring much needed munitions and medical supplies to the insurgents in Cuba. Once the expedition landed in Cuba, the new recruits joined the insurrection army and fought bravely to free Cuba from Spain.
Ferm n Vald s' diary gives readers a first hand account of the war as we share his optimism when he first steps foot on Cuban soil where he was promoted to Colonel and served as Secretary to the Commander-in-Chief of the Cuban Revolutionary Army, M ximo G mez. Ferm n Vald s' optimism turns to disillusionment as he witnesses the daily brutality of the war and the power struggle between the Commander-in-Chief, M ximo G mez and the President of the Republic of Cuba, Salvador Cisneros Betancourt. Later, Ferm n Vald s served under Lt. General Jos Maceo, who shared the same vision of Ferm n Vald s'childhood friend, Jos Mart that Cuba would be a country where blacks and whites would peacefully coexist. This shared vision is shattered as Ferm n Vald s' documents the resentment of certain governmental officials towards Jos Maceo, a black officer, whom they want to replace with a white officer. Vald s' diary describes the plight of the civilians who are forced by the Spanish general Valeriano Wyler to relocate to towns controlled by the Spanish and consequently, thousands of Cubans died of starvation and disease.
Ferm n Vald s' original diary, Diario de Soldado, consists of four volumens that were published in 1908 in Cuba and reprinted by the University of Havana in 1974. This edition of Diary of a Soldier is the first English translation, which contains the important events of the war and provides readers with valuable insights into the characters of its military leaders and details the struggles of the third attempt of Cubans to free themselves from Spain. What sets Ferm n Vald s diary apart is that he chronicles not only the historical details of the campaign, but provides us with an emotional description of the bitter campaign being waged by both sides and his disappointment in both the civilian and military leadership. His passionate criticism of the immoral conduct of his fellow officers and the ambitious plots of the government officials are revealed in detail. At times, grief overcomes him as he expresses sorrow for the loss of his friends including his close childhood friend, Jos Mart .
Ferm n Vald s felt the pain of the people who struggled to gain their ultimate goal, the independence of Cuba, a Cuba Libre where both blacks and whites had the same opportunities to work and provide for their families.
