Etiqueta: Treason

  • The Secret Book of Frida Kahlo (El libro secreto de Frida Kahlo)


    A story full of colors and flavors.   Frida is Mexico itself.    After "dying" for the first time in a terrible car accident, Frida Kahlo reaches an agreement with her godmother, Death. In exchange for Frida preparing an offering in the form of a banquet for her every year on the Day of the Dead, Death allows her to live. Frida wrote down the recipes for each banquet dedicated to Saint Death in a black notebook she called “The Book of Holy Herbs”.  The day this notebook was to be shown to the public for the first time in an exhibition at the Palace of Fine Arts, it disappeared.    Haghenbeck imagines that this notebook was a gift from the other great Mexican female icon, Tina Modotti (Frida Kahlo's lover), after the accident.   The author narrates in first person the life of Kahlo, a free, authentic and controversial woman who broke stereotypes with her beauty and celebrated her Mexican identity in all areas. It delves into her decisions, thoughts and secrets, with a constant presence of death through two characters, The Messenger, represented by the revolutionary hero Emiliano Zapata, and her Godmother, Death, who warns Kahlo that she will die the day her rooster Cui-cui-ri stops crowing.  In an intimate and personal way, it reconstructs the most important passages of Kahlo's life, including her childhood, full of suffering and illness, and the accident she had in her youth, which caused injuries from which she never recovered, and which impregnated so much of her art. It also deals with her revolutionary interest in politics and her friendships and adventures with several of the most influential personalities of the time, such as Leon Trotsky and Georgia O'Keeffe, among others. It explores her complex relationship with Diego Rivera, her infidelities, her pregnancy and subsequent loss of the baby, her life in the United States, her divorce and her return. One day, Frida Kahlo orders her rooster Cui-cui-ri to be cooked. That same day, she dies.     RELEVANT DATA: The Secret Book of Frida Kahlo is a novel inspired by the life of the Mexican artist. F.G. Haghenbeck takes the disappearance of The Book of Holy Herbs as the starting point for a journey through the life and thoughts of the Mexican artist, with a touch of magical realism and seasoned with Mexican gastronomy.  The Secret Book of Frida Kahlo was a finalist in the International Latino Book Awards and winner of the Gourmand Award in France, making him the first Latin American writer to receive this distinction.? …

  • The Story of Dinamic (La Historia de Dinamic)(TV Seri


    The young pioneers who became millionaires in the video game industry.     Spain, 1980´s. The extremely talented Ruiz brothers, Víctor, Nacho and Pablo, were 17 years old by the time they paved the way for the video game industry almost by accident. Fascinated by arcade machines, they started experimenting in their attic with rudimentary…

  • The Red Diamond Saga (Saga Diamante Rojo)


    Kill the Queen | The Last Tower | Death to the King       How far would you be willing to go for revenge?   In her childhood, Micaela Bravo suffered the worst attack a child can experience: she witnessed the murder of her parents and her brother. And at the hands of some…

  • Shiva’s Tears Saga (Saga Las lágrimas de Shiva)


    Shiva’s Tears | The Scarlet Circle Crossed revenge, forbidden love, mysterious presences, strange disappearances…   Summer 1969. Javier is an intelligent 15-year-old who is passionate about science fiction. Unfortunately, his father is diagnosed with a highly contagious disease, so Javier is forced to move to Santander, in the North of Spain, with his mother’s side of the family. In Villa Candelaria, he is welcomed…

  • The Sylist (La estilista)


    Pioneer, mentor, and one of the most powerful people in the fashion industry.   The Stylist (La estilista) is a fiction in which everything that is recounted is true. The author has decided to change the names of the characters to protect the identity of the real people. "For me, fashion is a fascinating world…

  • The Candidate: A Political Thriller (El candidato: Un thriller político)


    Guilt outsells innocence.   Lázaro Arnau, one of the most respected businessmen in Castellón, Spain decides to run for national elections. He leads Green Sprouts, a new transparent environmentalist party that has quickly gained lots of momentum. Arnau has become an idol who promotes campaigns to safeguard the health of the environment and a new…

  • Teresa Lanza’s Mysterious Disappearance (El oscuro adiós de Teresa Lanza)


    They are all lying. Only one is the real culprit.   On a typical winter Friday in an idyllic upper-class residential neighborhood, Lourdes Ros, the editor of a prestigious book publishing house, invites her four best friends to dinner. Five successful and professionally recognized women. But the meeting will not be as pleasant as they…

  • The Austrians Saga (Saga Los Austrias)


    The Eagle´s Flight | Time is in your hands Three possible successors to the crown… one single throne.   It is the year 1504. The throne of Castile will remain vacant after the death of Isabella the Catholic and its possible successors, hungry for power, will do anything and everything to have it. Juana de…

  • The Merchant of Death (El mercader de la muerte)


    The luxurious story of the assistant to the leading weapon trafficker in 20th century Europe.      Monaco, 1930s. Spanish journalist José Ortega travels to Montecarlo to interview Alfonso XIII and regain his lost prestige in the media. In a country where luxury and excess are found in its every nook and cranny, José Ortega…

  • A Sensitive Subject (Un asunto sensible)


    Three Cuban stories of crime and betrayal. The emotionally thrilling true crime story and its trial that struck the Cuban society and negatively shifted their opinion about the Castro regime. After having recently survived the failed invasion of officer Fulgencio Batista´s Presidential Palace, four children from the Revolutionary Directory were gunned down by the Havana…

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