Alexander Liberman

The book begins with a visit to Carnac, in Brittany, where an ancient culture erected three thousand huge stones in mysterious alignments. "Perhaps nothing that follows," Liberman writes, "has moved me more than the inexplicable majesty of these testaments to human yearning." Liberman ends with Matisse's Chapel of the Rosary in Vence, in southern France. Other sites in the book include the great temple complex at Paestum, south of Naples; the Parthenon in Athens; the Pantheon in Rome; the monastery of Hosios Loukas, near Delphi; and the cathedral of Santa Maria dell'Assunta on Torcello, in the Venetian lagoon, with its Byzantine mosaics.

In early 1940s Poland, ten-year-old Felix and his friend Zelda escape from a cattle car headed to the Nazi death camps and struggle to survive, first on their own and then with Genia, a farmer with her own reasons for hating Germans.

The Campidoglio, the Roman Capitol, stands on the peak of the smallest of Rome's seven hills. The epicenter of the Roman Empire, it was transformed by Michelangelo into one of the most imposing architectural compositions of all time, a grand environment for the political life of a great city. Michelangelo's design for the Piazza del Campidoglio was one of the first efforts to make a public space in which all the elements function as a whole. At the center of a trapezoidal area, flanked by three palaces, was the ancient Roman equestrian statue of Marcus Aurelius, the second-century ruler who presided over the waning days of the empire. Alexander Liberman has photographed the statue and its environs in all kinds of light and from all angles over a period of years. The result is a stunning photographic essay on one of the most dramatic public monuments ever constructed.

Micaela Urtiaga Four es la soprano mas exitosa de los teatrosliricos europeos de principios del siglo XX. Pero la soledad, las perdidas y los recuerdos pueden mas que todos losaplausos y la joven decide regresar a su tierra natal, Argentina.sin embargo, el remanso que ansiaba hallar en Buenos Airesse convierte en un torbellino cuando su vida se verepentinamente vinculada a la de Carlo Varzi, un proxenetadel barrio de La Boca, hombre bajo y sin escrupulos, con unpasado tan oscuro como su presente. Asi, la soprano favoritade la C"pera de Paris se vera obligada a cantar tangos enmedio de un ambiente sordido y desconocido, en uno de losburdeles de Carlo Varzi, bajo el seudonimo de Marlene.Aunque tratara de vencer la atraccion que ese cafishio deLa Boca ejerce sobre ella, finalmente cedera al impulso queLa domina. Remordimientos y temores, deseos y pasion seenfrentaran, y el conflicto sera inevitable.Data novela, ambientada en la Buenos Aires que vio nacer eltango, los conventillos y el cocoliche, muestra como lossentimientos se niegan a reconocer clases sociales y realidadeseconomicas. Retrata la historia de una mujer que lucha par.superar sus miedos y defender su amor, y la de un hombreque intenta redimirse en el contexto mas denigrante, tambien por amor.