This book is a biography about the life of Meche who was the best friend of the famous Mexican singer Juan Gabriel. It tells the true story of Juan Gabriel's rise to fame as well as the difficult struggles of his best friend Meche. The reader will learn the true story about their lifetime friendship, and the famous woman who launched Juan Gabriel's legendary career in music.music
Las obras que componen este volumen, "El cazador de gringos" (2005), "Los corolarios de la oruga" (2007) y "Anela" (2004), poseen personajes al margen de la sociedad, llenos de anhelos que esperan en otros parajes, pero a la vez se saben incapaces de aprehenderlos, por lo que optan por mantenerse inmóviles, omitir el paso del tiempo voluntariamente, evitar el cambio. En este sentido, estos personajes se asemejan a héroes trágicos en una cruzada contra el destino, aunque en este caso se trata de una cruzada en contra de la realidad, lo que los sitúa en el terreno de lo patético, de lo absurdo.
Meche is a teenager adrift, splitting her time between her father ́s home in Baja California Sur, Mexico and her mother's family in San Diego, USA. She helps her father run boat tours of the whale birthing lagoons in San Ignacio, Baja California Sur. Every year grey whales migrate to these lagoons from the Arctic Ocean in order to give birth to their babies. While Meche is a legal resident of two countries, more often than not she feels like an outsider in both. "Neither from here nor there", that is how Meche feels when people ask her where she is from. When the whale habitat is threatened by plans to develop a large scale salt mining operation, Meche plays a role in saving the lagoon and finds her place in a community that embraces her for reasons more profound than the color of her passport.This fictional story is set within the context of the real history of a small Mexican community that attracted the attention of the world in order to save the habitat of the grey whales. It was written for intermediate learners of Spanish. This inspiring story may appeal to readers with an interest in the environment, transborder cultural identities and heritage learners of Spanish. There...
Gerónimo is justifiably proud of his accomplishments, since he has recently far surpassed his own father in the acquisition of wealth and security. In fact, he is soon to be given a government-financed home. Not only that, but his son has followed in his footsteps as a government bureaucrat. He has recently been awarded a medal by his grateful government, and his cup is filled to overflowing. Or so he imagines, until one day he discovers that his entire department is being disbanded and everyone in it laid off. Soon after that, he is a man without a job, without status.
"Contiene 16 obras seleccionadas por el mismo autor en que se excluye El Cepillo de dientes, la más conocida de todas y que ha encasillado al autor como un discípulo de Ionesco. En esta selección el autor muestra cuán alejado está del mundo de su modelo francés y tan cerca de Latinoamérica, región en que los seres se debaten en conflictos creados por la búsqueda de su identidad y agobiados por el poder hegemónico"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 58.
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