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Un íntimo, poderoso e inspirador libro de memorias de la exprimera dama de Estados Unidos. Michelle Obama, una de las mujeres más icónicas de nuestra era, se convirtió en la primera afroamericana en desempeñar este papel, promoviendo la apertura y pluralidad en la Casa Blanca. Se destacó como defensora de las mujeres y las niñas, impulsó cambios para fomentar un estilo de vida saludable y acompañó a su esposo en momentos difíciles de la historia del país. A lo largo de su trayectoria, compartió momentos de alegría, como sus pasos de baile y su participación en Carpool Karaoke, mientras criaba a dos hijas bajo el escrutinio mediático. En sus memorias, invita al lector a conocer su mundo, desde su infancia en el sur de Chicago hasta su vida en la residencia más famosa, y su experiencia como alta directiva equilibrando maternidad y carrera. Con honestidad y un ingenio vivaz, relata sus logros y decepciones en lo público y lo privado, narrando su vida en sus propios términos. Cálido y revelador, este relato excepcionalmente íntimo de una mujer de gran moralidad y valía nos inspira a seguir su ejemplo.

“A fascinating short book” on the perils of 21st-century capitalism and its near-complete takeover of our everyday lives (New York Times Magazine) 24/7: Late Capitalism and the Ends of Sleep explores some of the ruinous consequences of the expanding non-stop processes of twenty-first-century capitalism. The marketplace now operates through every hour of the clock, pushing us into constant activity and eroding forms of community and political expression, damaging the fabric of everyday life. Jonathan Crary examines how this interminable non-time blurs any separation between an intensified, ubiquitous consumerism and emerging strategies of control and surveillance. He describes the ongoing management of individual attentiveness and the impairment of perception within the compulsory routines of contemporary technological culture. At the same time, he shows that human sleep, as a restorative withdrawal that is intrinsically incompatible with 24/7 capitalism, points to other more formidable and collective refusals of world-destroying patterns of growth and accumulation.

Summertime is an inventive and inspired work of fiction that allows J.M. Coetzee to imagine his own life with a critical and unsparing eye, revealing painful moral struggles and attempts to come to grips with what it means to care for another human being.A young English biographer is researching a book about the late South African writer John Coetzee, focusing on Coetzee in his thirties, at a time when he was living in a rundown cottage in the Cape Town suburbs with his widowed father - a time, the biographer is convinced, when Coetzee was finding himself as a writer. Never having met the man himself, the biographer interviews five people who knew Coetzee well, including a married woman with whom he had an affair, his cousin Margot, and a Brazilian dancer whose daughter took English lessons with him. These accounts add up to an image of an awkward, reserved, and bookish young man who finds it hard to make meaningful connections with the people around him. Summertime is an inventive and inspired work of fiction that allows J.M. Coetzee to imagine his own life with a critical and unsparing eye, revealing painful moral struggles and attempts to come to grips with what it means to care for another human being. Incisive, elegant, and often surprisingly funny, Summertime is a compelling work by one of today's most esteemed writers.